Schizophonia

Schizophonia is a term coined by R. Murray Schafer to describe the splitting of an original sound and its electroacoustic reproduction.^[1] Since the invention of the electroaccoustical equipment for the transmission any sound can be recorded and sent anywhere around the world. Originally that was not possible, every sound was an original and could only be heard once. Schizophonia is the separation of this native sound and the recording of it.^[2]

In popular culture

• Mike Batt released an album in 1977 entitled Schizophonia
• Rinôçérôse released an album in 2005 entitled Schizophonia
• A number of albums are entitled the related term Schizophonic

See also

• Soundscape
• Sound culture
• Acoustic ecology
• Schismogenesis
• Acousmatic sound

Notes

1. Schafer, R. Murray (1969). The New Soundscape: a handbook for the modern music teacher. BMI Canada. ISBN 0-900938-29-3.
2. Schafer, Murray. The Music of the Environment. ISBN 0826416144.