Re: [microsound] Westerkamp (was: electronic improv)

[virginia maryland <hotlinegrrl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Anyone experienced any of the 'soundwalk' recordings of artists such as
> Hildegaard Westerkamp.
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I have to say that Hildegard Westerkamp was one of those artists I really 
got excited about initially, but eventually I found everything she did 
really disappointing.

The first hint that something was wrong was a kind of low level new age 
content (her forest pieces in particular tend to go down this deadly road... 
too many babbling brooks and chirping birds...)


But my biggest complaint is that her pieces really undo themselves. "Kits 
Beach Soundwalk", is particularly frustrating in this respect... for as much 
as it's about all the miniscule sounds of the beach, the thing you hear the 
most is Hildegard Westerkamp talking.... she talks far too much in her 
pieces, it's really distracting and it just seems to defeat the whole stated 
purpose of 'soundwalking'.


So once again we see that theory and practice are too far apart, which is 
probably the source of most of my music related complaints.







(Where in the world: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia... at least in my mind..)














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