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World Soundscape Project - Music of Whistles and Horns

From: Soundscape Vancouver 96/Vancouver Soundscape 72

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The World Soundscape Project, brainchild of R. Murray Schafer, was the earliest organized exploration of acoustic ecology. Combining sociology, urban planning, ecology, philosophy, and the arts, the echoes of their time together in the 1970's reverberates through virtually all of the artists' work presented here. This track is a celebration of the music of both horns and those who blow them: boat captains and train engineers make the most of their horns. These tapes being from the 1972 Vancouver Soundscape project, we also hear the now-rare sound of steam-powered factory shift-change whistles.

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