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The word soundscape was coined by R. Murray Schafer in connection with the World Soundscape Project that he established in the late 1960s at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. The goal was to understand our sound environment. In his words: "The soundscape of the world is changing. Modern man is beginning to inhabit a world with an acoustic environment radically different from any he has hitherto known ... " Schafer's idea was that we should understand how we interact, individually and collectively, with the sounds around us. It was the beginning of a new field now known as acoustic ecology. " ----- Original Message ----- From: <Loopbozo@aol.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:59 PM Subject: Re: Affordable Soundscapes > For two extra points who coined the term "soundscapes" in 1968? > > b.helm >