R. Murray Schafer

Raymond Murray Schafer was an internationally renowned Canadian composer and environmental thinker. Teaching at Simon Fraser University in the late 1960s, Schafer founded the World Soundscape Project, coining terms such as "soundscape," "keynote sounds," and "schizophonia," and publishing the seminal 1977 book The Tuning of the World.

Schafer composed groundbreaking music designed for wilderness settings, including his monumental cycle Patria, performed on wilderness lakes at dawn with choruses calling across waters. He was the inaugural recipient of the Glenn Gould Prize in 1987 and a Companion of the Order of Canada.