File consists of an audio cassette containing the following recordings: "Prelude: Introducing Ourselves (8'0"); Anne Moyls (20"); Koozoo Maeda : Shishi - odoshi (33"); Kenneth Eming (15"); Andres Bossard (39"); Don Wherry : The Last Blast: July 14, 1990, Excerpt from Harmour Symphony, 6 ships, St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland (32"); Thomas Kundadt : Pipeline Sounds (45"); Daniel Janke : Kora strings sounding in a breeze/Little Salmon River Ambience, Yukon, Canada (39"); Hiroshi Yoshimura (15"); Pierre Marietan (29"); Peter Kiefer (11"); Allyn Harris-Femin voix/Woman Sound (33"); Betsy Hanson : Sounds from Emissary Community Dining Room (16"); Mirostaw Raykowski (50"); Judith Strasser (23"); Fred Lipsett (4"); Gordon Rumson (18"); Jeff Hutner (1'7"); Lou Mallozzi (14"); Hugo Dionisio (22"); Leif Brush (15"); Manuel Rocha (13"); Marilyn Strachan (24") Lynn Whidden (19"); Diana McIntosh (21"); Elanie Guillot (34"); Henrik Karlsson (25"); Steven R. Heimbecker : Echoland: the Echosystem (29"); R.J. Hamil (37"); Tadahiko Imada (32"); Deborah St. George Butterfield (2'0"); Keiko Torigoe : Insect Voices: 1 (53"), 2 (1',5"); Nicole Fabler (9"); Helmi Jarviluoma and Marja-Leena Junttila : Seitseminen: a natural park in he southern Finland (2'); Leonardo Baeza (10"); Ins Brooks (18"); R.I.P. Hayman (30"); Postlude : Timothy Buell (1'38").
File consists of three digital audio tapes, featuring "concert performances." The tapes are labelled "Cage Circus." Cage Circus was a celebration of John Cage in a multiplicity of spaces, produced, with commentary, by Richard Kostelanetz.
File consists of an audio recording of a lecture/workshop The tape is labelled "M. Schafer String Quartet Concert." The presentation explores the relationship between soundscape awareness and musical composition in the string quartets of R. Murray Schafer. This event was sponsored by the Music Program at Banff Centre.
File consists of an audio recording of performances of Diana McIntosh's "Murkings" and John Elmsly's "For the Kokako" an "Still Drum K." "Murkings" (1993), is an interpretation of Paul Dutton's "The Eighth Sea" that involves our relationship to the environment. "For the Kokako" and "Stilldream K..." are two related pieces that recall the song of the Kokako, one of New Zealand's endangered native birds.
File consists of an audio recording of performances of Frances Dyson's "Window Pain," and Pierre Marietan's "Rumor Goes Away...." "Window Pain" focused on women's experience of pain, and was created in July 1993 during a residency of the Audio program of the Media Arts department at Banff Centre. Supported by the Swiss foundation for culture, "Rumor Goes Away..." is concerned with the "medicalization" of noise.
File consists of an audio recording of performances of David Eagle's "Music for aXiO," Manuel Rocha's "Ath," and Douglas Quin's "Kingdoms and Phyla." "aXiO" stands for "alternative expressive input object," a multi-dimensional instrument/controller with a Macintosh interface. "Kingdoms and Phyla," is a work for digitally assembled and processed wildlife sounds, electronic sounds, and a human voice.
File consists of audio recordings of performances of Claude Schryer's "Les voix de l'ecologie," and Hildegard Westerkamp's "Beneath the Forest Floor." "Les voix de l'ecologie" is based on R. Murray Schafer's 1977 book "The Tuning of the World," and was commissioned for The Tuning of the World conference. "Beneath the Forest Floor" (1992) is composed of sounds recorded in old-growth forests on British Columbia's west coast, and was commissioned by CBC Radio for "Two New Hours," produced in CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility in Toronto.
File consists of materials relating to Claude Schryer regarding their involvement with the Tuning of the World conference. The file contains correspondence, contracts, and documentation regarding Schryer's role as a production consultant for the conference. The documents refer to a work Schryer was commissioned to produce: a mixed, fifteen-minute voice and 8 track tape. Schryer's commission for the conference was titled "les voix de l'ecologie," and was based on R. Murray Schafer's 1977 acoustic ecology text, "The Tuning of the World." The electroacoustic tape is a musical (re)interpretation of the book.
