Cricket
Voice on The Aerial: Issue #2(Recording to be released and be available in mid-1996 on the empreintes DIGITALes label.) Works to include Westerkamp's Fantasie for Horns II, A Walk Through the City, Cricket Voice, Kits Beach Soundwalk, and Beneath the Forest Floor. A series of soundscapes based on sources as "simple" as the sound of a cricket, to the din of city traffic. Westerkamp uses the microphone in the way photographers often use the camera, searching for images, using the zoom to discover what the human eye alone cannot see. In Transformations, she walks the edge between real sounds and the processed sound.
Cricket
Voice on The Aerial: Issue #2Minimal music concrète piece using the cricket as sound source. Collection also includes works by Bob Davis & Jon Ruskin, David Dunn, Jeff Greinke, Christopher Shultis, Chris Cochrane, Sue Ann Harkey, Jin Hi Kim, Trans Duo and Annea Lockwood.
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A composition made from environmental recordings of Canadian trainhorns, boathorns and foghorns - typical hornsounds that we hear in daily life.
A Walk Through the City is an urban environment composition based on Norbert Ruebsaat's poem of the same name. It takes the listener to a specific city location - Vancouver's Skid Row - and moves him or her through its sound and language. Whisper Study is a studio tape composition for very quiet sounds. All sounds, except the final poem, are derived from Westerkamp's speaking of the phrase "when there is no sound, hearing is most alert" and the word "silence." Streetmusic celebrates the beauty and diversity of Vancouver's street music scene. The piece finds the featured composer/performers in their 'natural' ambience: traffic noise, construction sounds, bus airbreaks and especially the conversation and comments of the impromptu street audience.
Cordillera is a compositional working of Norbert Ruebsaat's reading of the long title poem from his book, Cordillera. The piece combines the voice with environmental sounds to place the language back into the acoustic context - the Western Canadian mountain wilderness - from which the poem stems. It is a search for language and identity for sheer vocal presence in places that are still considered by many to be barren and silent. Zone of Silence Story comes out of an intense encounter with the Zone of Silence, a freakish plateau desert area in North Central Mexico.
This piece was commissioned by the Canada Pavilion for its Expo opening. It is probably the largest environmental music event ever to be mounted in Vancouver. On May 2, 1986, 150 boats of all sizes and shapes gathered in Vancouver Harbour around Canada Place to perform the premier of the Vancouver Harbour Symphony for boathorns. "The sound was like that of a herd of happy elephants cought in a traffic jam. " Globe and Mail "Mere words are inadequate to describe what took place when the Symphony began." Harbour and Shipping Magazine
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Westerkamp grew up in post-war Germany and emigrated to Canada in 1968. As a freelance composer/audio artist, she has completed numerous compositions since 1975, all of which deal with aspects of the acoustic environment. They have been performed in concert and broadcast on radio internationally. Beneath the Forest Floor, commissioned by CBC's Two New Hours, received a mention in the radio music category of Prix Italia 1994. She has taught courses in Acoustic Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and has given many lectures, workshops and seminars on sound, noise, acoustic ecology and music. For the last three years, she has been the editor of The Soundscape Newsletter, the offical voice of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. More recently, she has conducted soundscape workshops internationally and is currently working on a larger audio work, Visiting India, A Sonic Journey in Two Parts.
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