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Inside the soundscape #5, harbour symphony
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- Moving images
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Hildegard Westerkamp
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MS-3-46, 1986-024
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1 audiocassette
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Name of creator
(1946-)
Biographical history
Hildegard Westerkamp is a German and Canadian composer of "electroacoustic" music. Westerkamp was born in Osnabrück, Germany and she emigrated to Canada in 1968. Her education includes the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg from 1966 to 1968 where she studied the flute and piano, and the University of British Columbia from 1968 to 1972 where she received her Bachelor of Music degree. In the 1970s, Westerkamp joined the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University. In the 1980s, she was a professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. Westerkamp has broadcasted and performed her compositions in many parts of the world. Her compositions deal with elements of the acoustic environment, showcasing rural and urban environments, voices of people, combined with silence or noise, music or media sounds.
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item consists of an audio recording of May 2, 1986 when 150 boats gathered in the Vancouver Harbour to perform the first-ever Vancouver Harbour Symphony for boat horns.
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- English
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Audio can be listened at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.
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See MS-3-46, Box 20, Folder 28 and MS-3-46. Box 19, Folder 6 for more information on Westerkamp's Soundscapes, her Harbour Symphony and workshops and performances held at the Centre for Art Tapes in 1988.
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Copyright is held by the artist.