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On Friday, May 17th, professor Sabine Breitsameter gave a guest lecture at 911勛圖's Burnaby Campus. See below for the talk details and a link to the full talk video. 

Five reasons to revisit Schafer���s The Tuning of the World: Reflections on the future viability of soundscape and acoustic ecology

This talk is based on Sabine Breitsameter���s recent 2nd edition of Die Ordnung der Kl瓣nge (The Ordering of Sounds), her German translation of R. Murray Schafer���s The Tuning of the World. It was already in 1977 that Schafer���s original publication was released in North-America. It took more than another decade for the book to arrive in the European discourse. In her role as publisher, translator, and in her introductory essay to the book���s 2nd edition Klang, Klima, Oikos (Sound, Climate, Oikos), Breitsameter carves out the future importance and viability of Schafer���s approach to soundscape studies and his acoustic ecology, by focusing on his ���polyphonic��� attitude, which coined his aesthetic approach as an artist-pedagogue as well as his programmatic writings.

Breitsameter suggests reading R. Murray Schafer���s seminal work against today���s grain, and detach it from an obviously consolidated, maybe even frozen, perspective which tends to focus too much on a limited notion of ecology. As an alternative interpretation, she suggests, to embed Schafer���s ideas and practices as an early and consistent example in an overall aesthetics or care.

Sabine Breitsameter: Since 2006 Professor of Sound and Media Culture at Darmstadt UAS/Germany, research chair for Artistic Research and Media Aesthetic Practice, director of the Master���s program International Media Cultural Work. Co-president and presidium speaker of Hessian Film- und Media Academy hFMA, and member of the German Music Council (Media Committee).

1987-2008 author, dramaturg and director for cultural radio in Germany, Europe, and internationally; focus: electroacoustic art forms, experimental radio, soundscape studies and media ecology. 2004-2008: Visiting professor for Experimental Audio Media and co-founder of the "Soundstudies" Master���s program at the University of the Arts Berlin. Artistic and scientific director of numerous international conferences, e.g. The Global Composition 2012 + 2018, on Media Campus Dieburg/Germany. Publisher and translator of Schafer���s main written oeuvre Die Ordnung der Kl瓣nge. Eine Kulturgeschichte des H繹rens, 2nd edition, Schott International Mainz 2023.