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Harbour Symphony at ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop, in Berlin, Sunday, 9 and 16 October 2011, 2pm - 9pm.

For details see: http://www.ohrenhoch.org/en/news.html

 

Mark Peter Wright of Ear Room interviews Hildegard Westerkamp

 

 

Shattering the Silence 2011
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Electroacoustic Focus

Jan 19-23 2011
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

see website for workshop schedule


 

Für Dich - For You (2005)

 


has now been published along with compositions by Nicolas Bernier * Darren Copeland * Francis Dhomont * Louis Dufort * Gilles Gobeil * Robert Normandeau * Barry Truax on trans_canada, a DVD by empreintesDIGITALes.
For more imformation see: http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_09100/



transcanada  
An interview with Hildegard in a new book by Paul Steenhuisen

 
sonic mosaic




Sonic Mosaics - conversations with composers

In Sonic Mosaics - conversations with composers author Paul Steenhuisen offers readers insight into the creative process and suggests ways of listening to and interpreting new music. Steenhuisen talks one-to-one with thirty-two of his contemporaries with a colleague's candor, sympathy and expertise.

The University of Alberta Press, January 2009
For more details and to order: The University of Alberta Press

 

The 8th SCHOOL OF SOUND International Symposium

15 - 18 April 2009
Purcell Room - Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre, London SE1

http://www.schoolofsound.co.uk/

and at Goldsmiths, University of London:
20 April 2009, 14:00 - 17:00
Art and Soundscapes
Composer and acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp will present and discuss her compositional work.
For more details see:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=2751


World Premiere of New Composition:


Seascapes

By Hildegard Westerkamp

a newly created sound environment for Audrey Capel Doray's Electronic Seascape (mixed media sculpture)

Shown as part of Idyll: Three Exhibitions
16 May - 10 August, 2008

Opening reception Saturday 31 May, 1 to 3 pm

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Link: http://belkin.ubc.ca/current/)
The University of British Columbia


MotherVoiceTalk

By Hildegard Westerkamp

to be performed in the context of Vancouver New Music's Marginalia, re-visioning Roy Kiyooka

20 - 23 February 2008 | 8pm
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1895 Venables Street
Tickets $24 + surcharges from Ticketmaster


Winner of the 2008 Alcan Performing Arts Award, Marginalia wishes to create an opportunity for the public to consider aspects and values of art making, Kiyooka's multiple practice and the inspiration stemming from its richness and diversity. The idea of referring to different works by Kiyooka, consists then of composing a form in which these layered differences can become a practical piece. Simultaneity, polycentricity and overlapping points of view will be the characteristic elements of Marginalia. BC composers Jocelyn Morlock, Stefan Smulovitz, Stefan Udell and Hildegard Westerkamp will be the commissioned artists who will be writing the four new works within a strong relationship to Kiyooka's works. The new compositions will take cues and motivations from specific characters, ideas and passages in Kiyooka's works and will become an organic stimulus for an inner dialogue between Kiyooka, his displayed works, the composers, the performing musicians and the audience. Like a musical palimpsest the dialogue among the various components of Marginalia will not be just an echo of Kiyooka's work, not simply a response; it will have a life of its own in the interactive relation between the composers and Kiyooka, his cross-cultural and polymorphic artistic approach and his inner dialogue and research.

 

 
 
News from the Film World
Excerpts of Hildegard Westerkamp's compositions have been included in the soundtrack of Elephant and Last Days, two recent films by Gus van Sant.
CDs of both soundtracks have been released in France by mk2 music.