Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp ( born April 8, 1946 in Osnabrück ) is a German -Canadian sound artist, sound researcher, composer of electroacoustic music, Klangökologin, flutist, pianist and author. Many of her compositions include field recordings of urban to rural environments with voices, noises, silence, music, media, etc.. , In some compositions, she processed poetry of her partner, the Canadian writer Norbert Ruebsaat. She composed film music, among others, for two films by Gus Van Sant - Elephant (2003) and Last Days ( 2005). She is co-founder of the World Forum on Acoustic Ecology ( WFAE ) and the Vancouver Co -op Radio.
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Life
From 1966 to 1968 studied Hildegard Westerkamp flute and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 1968 she lives in Vancouver, Canada. From 1968 to 1972 she studied at the University of British Columbia and graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Music from. She gave birth to her daughter Sonja Ruebsaat 1977.
During the 80 years she was a teacher at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. At the same time she worked in the research project World Soundscape Project under R. Murray Schafer. In this capacity, they miked the sound of different environments to their archiving. Parallel to this, she worked as a sound artist and composer.
In Wester Kamps work a feminist approach is demonstrated through, especially on two works from the year 1985. Women Voicing is a document of female Canadian musicians that produced Westerkamp for Music Works 31. Compiles are works of Alassie Alasuak, turning Bartley, Susan Frykberg, Nellie Nungak, Ann Southam, Kim Erickson, Gayle Young, Westerkamp itself and Pauline Oliveros. His Masters Voice is a soundscape of male voices of presenters and politicians and recordings of listening to loud music motorists. Westerkamp sees himself in the play " satirical protest against the macho male voice that is relentless to hear in the media ." This piece formulated a feminist critique of male dominance in acoustic radio and public space. The feminist content of Wester Kamps work is also recognized by the front desk. So stated quoted Donna Zapf in the contributions to the New Music, " Westerkamp 's music balances a poetics of sound with social commitments did include feminism and environmental politics. "
Work
Compositions
Sound installations
Film Music
Radio
Hildegard Westerkamp is a co-founder of the Vancouver Co-operative Radio. It operated there, the programs sound walking and Musica Nova.
Texts
Discography
Albums
Contributions to Compilations
Awards
Literature on Hildegard Westerkamp
- Andra McCartney: Sounding Places: Situated Conversations through the Soundscape Compositions of Hildegard Westerkamp. unpublished dissertation. York University (Canada ) in 1999.
- Paul Steenhuisen: Interview with Hildegard Westerkamp. In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2009, ISBN 978-0-88864-474-9.
- Alexa Woloshyn: Playing with the Voice and Blurring Boundaries in Hildegard Westerkamp 's "Mother Voice Talk. In: eContact! 14.4 - TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium Electroacoustique de Toronto. Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Montreal, March 2013.
- Randolf Jordan: The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant.
- Interview In: The Paula Gordan show.
- Ios Smolders: Interview In: Vital magazine. In 1993.
- David Kolber: Hildegard Westerkamp 's Kits Beach Soundwalk: shifting perspectives in real world music. In: Organised Sound. Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2002, pp. 41-43.
- Mark Peter Wright: Hildegard Westerkamp. Interview. In: Ear Room. 6. July 2011.
- Randolph Jordan: The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant. In: OFFSCREEN. Vol 11, No. 8 /9, August / September 2007.