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          This document summarizes an anthropologist's experience studying the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea and their relationship to sound and music.

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          R. Murray Schafer

          Background information
          Birth nameRaymond Murray Schafer
          BornJuly 18, 1933 (1933-07-18)(age 77)
          Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
          GenresAvant-garde, classical, opera, musical theater
          OccupationsComposer, librettist, pedagogue, writer, educator, environmentalist
          InstrumentsPiano

          Raymond Murray Schafer (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadiancomposer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).

          He was notably the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978.[1][2]

          Biography

          Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he then studied at the Royal Schools of Music in London, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the University of Toronto.

          At the latter institution he was a pupil of Richard Johnston.

          His music education theories are followed around the world. He started sounds