“ I was looking for something else today, but I stumbled upon this instead. Some works by a Germany-born, canada-based contemporary composer with an apparent fascination for the sound of noise and surroundings. All new to me, but she has a fascination that I share, I may add. Having listened to it, I thought, why not pass it on here right now? So there you go. Interesting stuff, imho.
Or as Pauline Oliveros puts it in the liner notes to this cd:
<<< Sound surrounds us. We are sound inside and we resonate with the soundscape even if we are not listening. Hildegard Westerkamp is sensitive to soundscape. She ably shapes fanciful, imaginative music from her recordings, mixing and transformations of the soundscape. Westerkamp creates new possibilities for listening. One can journey with her sound to inner landscapes and find unexplored openings in our sound souls. The experience of her music vibrates the potential for change. Her compositions invite interaction — a chance to awaken to one’s own creativity. One can transform through listening as she has. In the music and soundscapes of Westerkamp we feel memory and imagination as we hear through to the future. >>>
Some of you may want to check this out.
By focusing the ear's attention to details both familiar and foreign in the acoustic environment, Hildegard Westerkamp draws attention to the inner, hidden spaces of the environment we inhabit. On the edge between real and processed sounds she creates sonic journeys in her compositions that reveal both the contradictions and visions of beauty in today's world.
Reissued as emprientes DIGITALes IMED 1031
http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_1031/
