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Digital Soundscapes
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Label: Cambridge Street Records – CSR-CD 8701 Format: CD Country: Canada Released: 1987 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Ambient Credits: Composed By, Producer – Barry Truax Notes: All Works for four computer-synthesized soundtracks except Aerial for solo horn and computer-synthesized soundtracks and Blind man for two-channel tape based on a poem and reading by Ruebsaat. Barry Truax’s "Digital Soundscapes" is a collection of five pieces that integrate computer and electroacoustic music. The tracks were released between 1979 and 1986, soon after the Canadian composer Murray Schafer introduced the idea of “acoustic ecology,” which refers to the relationship between people and the sounds of the environment that surround them. Each of the five tracks reflects this relationship to a certain degree, such that they include material from outside sources that have been manipulated digitally and also material formed through computer synthesis that mimics authentic sounds. The first piece, The Blind Man (1979), combines the recitation of a poem by Norbert Ruebsaat with electronic sounds such as clicks and snaps that are formed using bells, doors and other objects. In the first half of the piece, Truax appears to use snippets of the words—both syllables and consonants—as well as clear language to produce a rhythmic, repetitive and overlapping texture. At some points, the speech stops altogether and the eerie, ambient background (much of which includes a kind of Darth Vader-lik
