I find the work and passion of Canadian sound artist and researcher R. Murray Schaefer incredibly powerful and inspiring. When he was writing back in the 70s it was already obvious that the noise of machines was becoming an uncomfortable and dangerous side effect to human development. In his seminal text ‘The Tuning of the World’ (1977), Schaefer writes: ‘We may speak of natural sounds as having biological existences. They are born, they flourish, and they die. But the generator or the ...