| Music Encyclopedia: R(aymond) Murray Schafer |
(b Sarnia, 18 July 1933). Canadian composer. He was a pupil of Weinzweig at the Toronto Conservatory and a teacher at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia (from 1965). His output is large and diverse, using mixed media, electronics and quotations and he has a predilection for texts in dead languages. He has also written much against noise pollution and in favour of creative music education in schools.
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| Birth name | Raymond Murray Schafer |
| Born | July 18, 1933  Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Avant-garde, classical, opera, musical theater |
| Occupations | Composer, librettist, pedagogue, writer, educator, environmentalist |
| Instruments | Piano |
Raymond Murray Schafer (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).[1][2]
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he then studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the University of Toronto.
His music education theories are followed around the world. He started soundscape studies at Simon Fraser University in the 1960s.
In addition to introducing the concept of soundscape he also coined the term schizophonia in 1969, the splitting of a sound from its source or the condition caused by this split: "We have split the sound from the maker of the sound. Sounds have been torn from their natural sockets and given an amplified and independent existence. Vocal sound, for instance, is no longer tied to a hole in the head but is free to issue from anywhere in the landscape."[3] Steven Feld, borrowing a term from Gregory Bateson, calls the recombination and recontextualization of sounds split from their sources schismogenesis.[4]
In 1987 he was awarded the first Glenn Gould Prize in recognition of his contributions. In 2005 he was awarded the Walter Carsen Prize, by the Canada Council for the Arts, one of the top honours for lifetime achievement by a Canadian artist.[5] In 2009, he received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.[6]
Schafer is particularly famous for his situational opera The Princess of the Stars.
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