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THE SONIC RESEARCH STUDIO
WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT DATABASE

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

• The Book of Noise (1970 edition)
  
  
• A Survey of Community Noise By-Laws in Canada (1972), introduction
  
  
• The Music of the Environment (1973)
  
  
• The Vancouver Soundscape (1973) and Soundscape Vancouver (1996)
  
  
• Soundscapes of Canada (1974)
   
  
• European Sound Diary (1978)
  
  
• Five Village Soundscapes (1978)
  
  
• Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (CD-ROM)
  
  
  Other Related Publications
  
  
• WSP Projects Outline, 1972-75.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Soundscape Studies: An Introduction to the World Soundscape Project, Numus West, no. 5, 1974.


• Sound Heritage, vol. 3(4), 1974, theme issue on The World Soundscape Project
  
• Introduction
• Commentary: Aural History and the World Soundscape Project (Imbert Orchard, Barry Truax, Howard Broomfield)
• Listening, by R. Murray Schafer
• Soundwalking, by Hildegard Westerkamp (revised version )
• Cross-Canada Soundscape Tour 1973, by Bruce Davis and Peter Huse
• Review: The Vancouver Soundscape, by Max Wyman
  
  
• Bruce Davis, "FM Radio as Observational Access To Wilderness Environments, " Alternatives, Spring 1975. 21-27.
  
  
• Canadian Soundscape Programme, New Music Concerts, Toronto, Jan. 11, 1975, presented by members of the WSP
  
  
• Jean-Jacques Nattiez, review of The Vancouver Soundscape, Musique en Jeu, no. 18, Paris, April 1975, pp. 118-120 (with English translation). As provided by Carlos Augusto.
  
  
• "Truax' Concept of Acoustic Communication Leaves Tradition Behind," The Music Scene, May-June 1976, p. 13.
  
  
• Hildegard Westerkamp, " ," 1976, revised 1980.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "The Soundscape and Technology," Interface, vol. 6, 1977, pp. 1-8.
  
  
• Susan Mertens, "Vancouver Influences Bruce Davis' Career," The Music Scene, March-April 1978, pp. 5, 14.
  
  
• Donna Zapf, "Inside the Soundscape: The Compositions of Hildegard Westerkamp," Musicworks, 15, 1981.
  
  
• Keiko Torigoe, "A Study of the World Soundscape Project," MFA Thesis, York University, 1982
• Abstract& Introduction
• Chapter 1, "Problems, Aims and Strategies of the World Soundscape Project"
• Chapter 2, "History of the World Soundscape Project"
• Chapter 3 "The Analysis of the World Soundscape Project's Works" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Conclusion
• Appendix & Bibliography
  
  
• Jed Speare, Cable Car Soundscapes, LP, 1982.
  
  
• Ray Chatelin, "Hildegard Westerkamp: Wake-up and Hear The Crickets," The Music Scene, March-April 1988, p. 7.
  
  
• Hildegard Westerkamp, "Listening and Soundmaking: A Study of Music-as-Environment", in D. Lander & M. Lexier, eds. Sound by Artists, Art Metropole & Walter Phillips Gallery, 1990.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Electroacoustic Music and the Soundscape: The Inner and Outer World", in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought, eds. J. Paynter, R. Orton, P. Seymour and T. Howell. London: Routledge, 1992.
  
  
• The Soundscape Newsletter: No. 1, August 1991; No. 2, January 1992; No. 3, June 1992; No. 4, September 1992; No. 5, March 1993; No. 6, June 1993; No. 7, January 1994; No. 8, June 1994; No. 9, September 1994; No. 10, February 1995; No. 11, July 1995; No. 12, December 1995; See also wfae.net for "The New Soundscape Newsletter" 1996-98; The Soundscape Journal, WFAE Newsletter online
  
  
• Hildegard Westerkamp, "The Soundscape on Radio," in Radio Rethink, D. Augaitis & D. Lander, eds. Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, pp. 87-94.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Soundscape, Acoustic Communication & Environmental Sound Composition," Contemporary Music Review, 15(1), 49-65, 1996.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Computer Music and Acoustic Communication: Two Emerging Interdisciplines," in Liora Salter & Alison Hearn, eds., Outside The Lines: Issues in Interdisciplinary Research, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Models and Strategies for Acoustic Design," WFAE Conference, Stockholm, June 1998.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Acoustic Communication Studies at 911吃瓜," Soundscape, The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, 2(2), 11-15, 2001.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Genres and Techniques of Soundscape Composition as Developed at Simon Fraser University," Organised Sound, 7(1), 5-14, 2002.
  
  
• Hildegard Westerkamp, "Linking Soundscape Composition and Acoustic Ecology," Organised Sound, 7(1), 51-56, 2002.
  
  
• David Paquette, "Describing the Contemporary Sound Environment," MA thesis, School of Communication, 911吃瓜, 2004.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Acoustic Space, Architecture and Acoustic Ecology," Architecture, Music, Acoustics Conference, Toronto, June 2006.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Soundscape Composition as Global Music: Electroacoustic Music as Soundscape," Organised Sound, 13(2), 103-109, 2008.
  
  
• Barry Truax, Keynote address, CASE Soundscape Retreat, Gabriola Island, BC, June 2009 (with HTML links to the WSP and Soundscape Composition).
  
  
• Barry Truax & Gary Barrett, "Preface: Soundscape in a Context of Acoustic and Landscape Ecology," Landscape Ecology, 26(9), 1201-07, 2011.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "From Soundscape Documentation to Soundscape Composition," Acoustics 2012 Conference, Nantes, France, April 2012.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Sound, Listening and Place: The Aesthetic Dilemma," Organised Sound, 17(3), 193-201, 2012.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Voices in the Soundscape: From Cellphones to Soundscape Composition," in Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer," D. Zakharine & N. Meise, eds., V & R Unipress, Goettingen, 2012, pp. 61-79.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Music, Soundscape and Acoustic Sustainability," Moebius online journal (now defunct), December 2012.
  
  
• Robin & Jillian Ridington, "The Listener: Remembering the Dane-zaa Soundscape Recordings of Howard Broomfield," n.d. with .
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Environmental Sound and Its Relation to Human Emotion," Proceedings, Canadian Acoustical Association, 2016.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Acoustic Space, Community and Virtual Soundscapes," in The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, M. Cobussen, V. Meelberg & B. Truax, eds., New York, Routledge, 2017.
  
  
• Barry Truax, "Acoustic Sustainability in Urban Design: Lessons from the World Soundscape Project," Cities and Health, 2019.
  
  
• Excerpts from A Magical Time: The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University, Harbour Publishing, 2025.
  Barry Truax, "R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project," ch. 5, 84-89.
  Hildegard Westerkamp, "My 'Aha' Moment with Murray Schafer," ch. 5, 100-102.