Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks)
Description:
Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks). Whisper Study is based on the sentence "When there is no sound, hearing is most alert" (a quote from the Indian mystic Kirpal Singh. Except for the distant horns, all sounds were derived from the composer's voice, whispering the above sentence and the word "silence." Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape techniques in the analog studio of the 70s and using the whispered voice as…
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Date:
1975/1979
Duration:
10 minutes 43 seconds
Creator:
Westerkamp, Hildegard
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