Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape

Evidence

At the sound of a bell or gong listen inclusively for the interplay of sounds in the whole space/time continuum. Include the sounds of your own thoughts. Can you imagine that you are the center of the whole? — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 184 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The best way to comprehend what I mean by acoustic design is to regard the soundscape of the world as a huge musical composition, unfolding around us ceaselessly. We are simultaneously its audience, its performers and its composers. Which sounds do we want to preserve, encourage, multiply? When we know this, the boring or destructive sounds will become conspicuous enough and we will know why we must eliminate them. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Noise pollution persists because music education neglected soundscape awareness — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 400; The world’s soundscape can be treated as a musical composition we co-author; Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794 (+6 more)

Related

• The world’s soundscape can be treated as a musical composition we co-author (similarity 0.90)
• The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition (similarity 0.90)
• Listening inclusively can fold one’s own thoughts into the sounded environment (similarity 0.88)
• Only music can duplicate the complexity of the soundscape (similarity 0.88)
• Noise pollution persists because music education neglected soundscape awareness (similarity 0.86)
• Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions (similarity 0.86)
• Indoor concert music arose as the outdoor world grew too noisy (similarity 0.83)
• Disparate sounds can be unified through relational listening (similarity 0.81)
• Deep Listening expands to the whole soundscape while focusing on single sounds (similarity 0.81)
• The soundscape is a cognitive construct, not an objective physical reality (similarity 0.81)
• A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects (similarity 0.80)
• Listening actively shapes the sound it perceives rather than merely registering it (similarity 0.80)
• Music can function as the sonic expression of a built environment like suburbia (similarity 0.80)
• A group can turn ambient environmental sounds into shared composition (similarity 0.80)
• High-quality sonic ambience literally increases human acoustic perceptual capacity (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Listening inclusively can fold one’s own thoughts into the sounded environment #corroborates (0.80) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 184
• The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition #expands (0.75) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669