{"id":19983,"date":"2020-05-05T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:48:29","slug":"once-on-a-windy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=19983","title":{"rendered":"Once on a Windy Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_two_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-19984 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-19984 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WindyNight_Score.png' alt='' title='WindyNight_Score' height=\"270\" width=\"481\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The opening moments of\u00a0<em>Once on a Windy Night<\/em>, as composed and written by R. Murray Schafer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_two_fifth  el_before_av_video  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>R. Murray Schafer is a foundational figure in environmental music composition and in the scientific discipline of acoustic ecology. In this particular choral piece, performed by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Schafer gives a striking representation of wind. Bernie Krause, another influential composer and acoustic ecologist, writes, &#8220;<em>Once on a Windy Night\u00a0<\/em>demonstrates how critical listening can inspire us to incorporate even the most intricate soundscape details, just as Schafer has gracefully captured the essence of this invisible phenomenon with such stunning impact&#8221; (Krause 2015: 89-90). The composition is certainly stunning, moving quickly between moments of calm quiet and gusts of whirling melismatic walls of sound. Krause proposes that wind is &#8220;arguably one of the most difficult aspects of the soundscape to convey through musical art&#8221; (ibid.), and Schafer&#8217;s creative notation (sampled in the image to the left and visible in the video link below) demonstrate the complexities inherent in this representational practice. This piece has a profound metaphorical-to-literal transformative character: the human singers literally use and create wind in the act of singing, and as such they create windiness, rather than just representing it metaphorically or abstractly. In this way, the performance of this composition transgresses the boundaries between environment and self, between the elemental (wind) and the biological (human).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n<div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4zsYQs2y7vQ' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Once on a Windy Night - R. 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