Tuner of the World

The Radio 3 Documentary by BBC

Jun 12, 202343:35Society & Culture

"For the next hour, I need your ears". It's 1974 and someone is trying to recruit you for a listening experiment on public radio in Canada. Pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape maestro, R Murray Schafer really wan...

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