New Musings on New Music

NMNM - Episode 15 - Hildegard Westerkamp Part 2

Episode Summary

This is the second part of our conversation with Hildegard Westerkamp. Barbara, Norm and Hildegard discuss soundwalks, community radio, and listening.

Episode Notes

For more information on Hildegard Westerkamp, visit her website here.

See some examples of Hildegard's work on YouTube.

In this episode Hildegard speaks about the work of legendary Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. You can learn more about him here.

Hildegard speaks about Vancouver New Music's sound walk program. There's more information on that here.

We also mention Pauline Oliveros. Watch this nice little video about Pauline where she explains her work in listening and we see the Extreme Slow Walk.