R. Murray Schafer: Listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOlxuXHWfHw

Produced for the 2009 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, David New’s hushed portrait of iconic Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who passed away in August, is a view into the soundscapes that we all inhabit: spaces both vast and small, in which a single decision – to simply listen – opens worlds.