WSP_INTERVIEWS

LECTURES & RADIO PROGRAMS

1. R. Murray Schafer, CMNS 100, Jan. 11, 1967, on Human Communication, Networks and Culture

2. R. Murray Schafer, CBC Program (n.d.), "Words About Music", on music education, contemporary compositions and noise pollution

3. R. Murray Schafer, CBC Program (n.d.), "Chance and Randomness in the Arts", on aleatoric music and chance in compositional practice

4. R. Murray Schafer, CBC Program "Two New Hours", documentary by Norma Beecroft, April 1978, part 1 (1933-1960)

4a. R. Murray Schafer, CBC Program, part 2 (1961-1977)

5. Barry Truax, Lecture, Jan. 24, 1977, Acoustic Communication: The Overheard Dimension, Part One

5a. Barry Truax, Lecture, Jan. 24, 1977, Acoustic Communication: The Overheard Dimension, Part Two

6. Imbert Orchard, Lecture, SFU, Nov. 6, 1978, From Oral History to Aural History, part 1, including interview with Jack Shadbolt

6a. Part 2, including excerpts from The Road Back (Dutch POW's in WWII) and the river trip replicating that of Fraser & Mackenzie

7. Barry Truax, CMNS 258 Lecture, Feb. 1980, Radio Structure, Part One

8. Barry Truax, CMNS 258 Lecture, Feb. 1980, Radio Ads

9. Barry Truax, CMNS 258 Lecture, Feb. 1980, FM Radio

10. Barry Truax, CMNS 258 Lecture, Feb. 1980, Radio Structure, Part Two

11. Barry Truax, CMNS 258 Lecture, Feb. 1980, Radio Structure, Excerpt

12. Claude Schryer, Revisiting The World Soundscape Project, 1992-93, A Radio Fantasy (program note); see the original interview material below

13. R. Murray Schafer, Lecture, School of Communication, March 12, 2008, Part One

13a. R. Murray Schafer, Lecture, School of Communication, March 12, 2008, Part Two

Note: pdf's of various soundscape conferences (Koli, Stockholm, Banff etc) can be found in the Conference folder

14. Barry Truax, Keynote address, CASE Soundscape Retreat, Gabriola Island, BC, June 2009 (with HTML links to the WSP and Soundscape Composition)

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four (with recorded examples of whistles)

Part Five: (with recorded examples of whistles)

3. Joe Simpson, 1972, interview from which various earwitness examples were quoted in the Vancouver Soundscape

4. Meyer Freedman, Oct. 1, 1975, retired shoe merchant, Freedman's Shoes, Granville Street

5. Noise interviews, some of which were quoted in the Vancouver Soundscape, 1973

See also: Tape Catalogue, section II.1 Interviews and Conversations

6. Bruce Davis & Barry Truax, interviewed by Ingemar von Heijne, Swedish Radio, Nov. 3, 1975 (transcript only)

6a. Barry Truax, interviewed by Norma Beecroft, on music and soundscape, and computer music composition, ca. 1977-78

7. CBC Feature, by John Masters on White Noise in Robson Square, including interviews with Barry Truax & Red Wetherill, Nov. 30, 1978

8. Barry Truax, Interview on CJOR about computer music and the Computer Music Weekend at SFU, January 1981

9. Barry Truax, Interview on CBC about computer music and the Computer Music Weekend at SFU, February 1982

10. Hildegard Westerkamp, CBC program Morningside, with host Peter Gzowski, ca. 1986

Part One (radio and close listening)

Part Two (wet and dry sounds; water and the Zone of Silence)

Part Three (mechanical sounds)

Part Four (compositional techniques in A Walk Through The City and Cricket Voice); note: some distortion in programs one and four

Hildegard Westerkamp, Feb. 1992

R. Murray Schafer, Sept. 12, 1992

Dan Lander, Sept. 13, 1992

Peter Huse, Feb. 1992

Susan Frykberg, Feb. 1992

Note: Other interviews from Feb. 1992 with digital distortion (with Bruce Davis, Hildegard Westerkamp, R. Murray Schafer (1990), Peter Huse, Barry Truax, Hank Bull, Susan Frykberg and Colin Miles) are available in the folder Schryer Interviews (DAT 1-3)