Only music can duplicate the complexity of the soundscape

Evidence

In onomatopoeic vocabulary, man unites himself with the soundscape about him, echoing back its elements. The impression is taken in; the expression is thrown back in return. But the soundscape is far too complex for human speech to duplicate, and so it is in music alone that man finds that true harmony of the inner and outer world. It will be in music too that he will create his most perfect models of the ideal soundscape of the imagination. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 148

Categorization

• SEED: Music as the ideal model for imagining the perfect soundscape — directly feeds the reader’s goal of seeing acoustic ecology as art.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 148
• XREF: connects to: Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794; Music and machines have traded acoustic effects both ways — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 405; The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669 (+2 more)