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Charles Stankievech

14 Westerkamp, Hildegard. WHISPER STUDY (1975-79) - excerpt

Original Format: Audio Tape.  This release: 20 jahre inventionen II.  Edition RZ 4004. «Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape techniques in the analogue studio of the 1970's and using the whispered voice as sound material.  Eventually, it become a piece about silence, aural perceptions and acoustic imagination.  Whisper Study explores the place or moment where sound ends and its image begins.» Westerkamp was one of the original people behind the foundation of the World Soundscape Project in 1970 with R. Murray Schafer and Barry Traux.  With the Soundscape project, environmental sounds suddenly came to the world’s attention as they started to disappear or be drowned out by the increasing noise levels of industrialization. Field-recording became the fundamental research tool for composers/researchers like Schafer and Westerkamp, and as such the following questions arise, ‘Does a soundscape exist without headphones?  Is the entire field of soundscape recording and archiving separable from the technology of headphones—a mobile sound studio that provides an isolating booth and auditory microscope for the analysis of the external world?  What unique sound image is created with headphones? #

Play 4:43 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009

15 Chris Watson. 10M. Oceanus Pacificus.

Original Format: 7” vinyl. Touch Sevens Series. # TS02. Using two hydrophones, field-recordist Chris Watson records a Galapagos Island current 10m below the surface.  The physical properties of sound transmission in water are different than air, so all bets for normal spatialisation are off with this track.  We end this collection of work for headphones with a repeating locked groove of a record—gone perhaps so interior we’re trapped in our own cranial fluid. #

Play 3:19 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009