The world’s soundscape can be treated as a musical composition we co-author

Evidence

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The acoustic designer may incline society to listen again to models of beautifully modulated and balanced soundscapes such as we have in great musical compositions. From these, clues may be obtained as to how the soundscape may be altered, sped up, slowed down, thinned or thickened, weighted in favor of or against specific effects. The ultimate endeavor is to learn how sounds may be rearranged so that all possible types may be heard to advantage—an art called orchestration. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Collective Environmental Composition (1975) … Each participant explores an environment to find a listening place with something interesting to hear and listens for a while. … Each participant invites the other participants to hear their found listening place. There may be one or more places with contrasting sounds. … Each participant finds a way to enhance, nullify or otherwise interact with the sound or sounds that the group goes to hear. … Each participant finds a way to connect all the sounds, either literally, metaphorically or graphically. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 291 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794; The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669; A group can turn ambient environmental sounds into shared composition — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 291 (+3 more)

Related

• The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition (similarity 0.93)
• Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions (similarity 0.91)
• Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape (similarity 0.90)
• A group can turn ambient environmental sounds into shared composition (similarity 0.87)
• Only music can duplicate the complexity of the soundscape (similarity 0.86)
• Acoustic park design should let natural sounds speak for themselves. (similarity 0.82)
• Disparate sounds can be unified through relational listening (similarity 0.82)
• A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects (similarity 0.81)
• Listening together is an act of transforming shared space through sound (similarity 0.81)
• Music can function as the sonic expression of a built environment like suburbia (similarity 0.81)
• Mixing recorded spaces creates a new kind of listening space (similarity 0.80)
• Noise pollution persists because music education neglected soundscape awareness (similarity 0.79)
• Indoor concert music arose as the outdoor world grew too noisy (similarity 0.78)
• The soundscape is a cognitive construct, not an objective physical reality (similarity 0.78)
• Ordinary objects can be transformed into musical instruments through attention (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition #corroborates (1.00) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669
• Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions #corroborates (0.95) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794
• A group can turn ambient environmental sounds into shared composition #expands (0.90) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 291
• Listening together is an act of transforming shared space through sound #corroborates (0.70) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 294
• Ordinary objects can be transformed into musical instruments through attention #exemplifies (0.70) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 695
• Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape #contradicts (0.60)