Our Sonic Environment and THE SOUNDSCAPE the Tuning of the World - R. Murray Schafer. 1977, 1994. Pre-Owned but like new. Paperback. Seller will ship media mail. The soundscape is the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. The author contends that we now suffer from an over-abundance of acoustic information. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze and make distinctions.