The Performing Arts Research Cluster (Le PARC) of Concordia University’s Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology will have the pleasure to host sound artist/composer Hildegard Westerkamp for lecture/seminar at Le PARC / Milieux
Friday, October 27th, 2017 from 2:00pm until 4:00pm.
This event is free and open to the public. Please join us at on the 11th floor of the EV Buidling, Concordia Univeristy.
1515 Rue Sainte-Catherine W.
EV Building, 11.455
Montréal, Quebec H3G 2W1
Westerkamp’s biography:
Whether as a composer, educator, or radio artist most of Hildegard’s work since the mid-seventies has centred around environmental sound and acoustic ecology.
She has taught courses in Acoustic Communication at Simon Fraser University (1981-91) in Vancouver (BC) and is giving lectures and conducting soundscape workshops internationally.
She is a founding member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE, 1993) and was the editor of The Soundscape Newsletter between 1991 and ’95 and is now on the editorial committee of Soundscape—The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, a new publication of the WFAE. Her compositions have been performed and broadcast in many parts of the world. The majority of her compositions deal with aspects of the acoustic environment: with urban, rural or wilderness soundscapes, with the voices of children, men and women, with noise or silence, music and media sounds, or with the sounds of different cultures, and so on. She has composed film soundtracks, sound documents for radio and has produced and hosted radio programs such as Soundwalking and Musica Nova on Vancouver Co-operative Radio.
Upcoming performance at Akousma Festival:
This lecture is in collaboration with the Festival Akousma 14, Concordia University, Music Department, and Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia.
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Cheers
Eldad