Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and soundscape researcher, born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1946 and based in Vancouver, Canada. She worked with R. Murray Schafer on the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University, and most of her work has been built from environmental sound, field recordings and the practice of attentive listening. Westerkamp also made radio programmes for Vancouver Co-operative Radio and taught acoustic communication at Simon Fraser University.
Musicworks 55 - 7e Printemps Électroacoustique (CD+magazine)
One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of the magazine. In this issue: sound ecology, sonic weaponry, pre-Columbian winds, photosonic synthesis, etc.
Musicworks 72 - Outdoor Music, Improvisation And Complexity (CD+magazine)
One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of the magazine. In this issue: R. Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp, Yusef Lateef, etc.
Spectres #05 – Diffusion
The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, on the theme of diffusion and dissemination.
Transformations
Five soundscape compositions by Hildegard Westerkamp from 1979 to 1992, among them Kits Beach Soundwalk and Beneath the Forest Floor, recorded on Vancouver streets, a Mexican desert and old-growth forest on Vancouver Island, with hornist Brian G’froerer.