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Hildegard Westerkamp

Hildegard Westerkamp. By David & Camillia. Background. Born in Germany in 1946, emigrated to Canada in 1968 Joined ‘World Soundscape Project’ in Vancouver Co-founder of Vancouver Co-operative Radio Founding member of the World Forum on Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). Career. Composer

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Hildegard Westerkamp

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  1. Hildegard Westerkamp By David & Camillia

  2. Background • Born in Germany in 1946, emigrated to Canada in 1968 • Joined ‘World Soundscape Project’ in Vancouver • Co-founder of Vancouver Co-operative Radio • Founding member of the World Forum on Acoustic Ecology (WFAE)

  3. Career • Composer • Educator • Radio artist • Editor

  4. Compositions • Soundwalkingresearch • Majority deals with aspects of acoustic environment • Sharpening aural awareness

  5. Soundwalking • Queen Elizabeth Park • Describe aspects of the park • Suggesting questions

  6. ‘’When you walk into the conservatory, you are entering an artificially created, tropical environment … Does it look and smell and feel tropical… Does it sound tropical?’’

  7. Create contact with audience • Encourage audience to explore in their own ways • Sharpening aural awareness

  8. Examples • Kit’s Beach (1989) http://vimeo.com/9679356

  9. Combined environmental sounds with poetries/texts • Harmonizes with audience’s visual impression • Re-evaluate our acoustic soundscape

  10. References • McCartney A., (n.d.), Soundwalking: creating moving environmental sound narratives [Online], Available at: http://soundwalkinginteractions.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/soundwalking-creating-moving-environmental-sound-narratives/ Assessed on: 19th Oct., 2013 • Westerkamp H., (2001), ‘Soundwalking’ in Autumn Leaves, Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice, Ed. Angus Carlyle, Double Entendre, Paris, 2007, p. 49. • Biography of Hildegard Westerkamp, Available at : http://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/index.html Assessed on 20th Oct., 2013

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