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Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art
Artextes
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2003
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Cricket Voice (1987), 10m55s [excerpt]
Hildegard Westerkamp
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      Cricket Voice (excerpt) (1987), 5m30s
      • Composer: Hildegard Westerkamp
      • Premiere: June 1987, Community Arts Council of Vancouver (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

      To Norbert Ruebsaat

      “It’s hard to be a night in the desert
      without the crickets.
      You make it with stars.
      You make it with the skin
      of the desert night.
      You stitch those two together
      sky and earth.
      You find it with your cricket voice.”

      Norbert Ruebsaat

      Cricket Voice is a musical exploration of a cricket, whose song I recorded in the stillness of a Mexican desert region called the Zone of Silence. The quiet of the desert allowed for such acoustic clarity that this cricket’s night song — sung coincidentally very near my microphone — became the ideal “sound object” for this tape composition. Slowed down, it sounds like the heartbeat of the desert, in its original speed it sings of the stars.

      The quiet of the desert also encouraged soundmaking. The percussive sounds in Cricket Voice were created by ‘playing’ on desert plants: on the spikes of various cacti, on dried up roots and palm leaves, and by exploring the resonances in the ruins of an old water reservoir.

       

      Cricket Voice was completed at my own studio Inside the Soundscape with support from the Canada Council [for the Arts]. It was premiered in June, 1987 at the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.

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      Le cercle des tambours (1999), 4m59s
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      Commodité et commotion (2001), 3m40s
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      Tapotement / Tap (1969-72), 3m04s
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      Citations (2002), 5m45s
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      Signatures sonores (1994), 8m32s
      • Composer: Rober Racine
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      Omega Sunsets (1999), 3m32s
      • Composer: Bill Mullan
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      Music for Expo (1967), 2m14s
      • Composer: Hugh Le Caine
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      under the influence of ether (excerpt) (1995), 6m56s
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      Monopole pièce no 13 (2000), 59s
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      Les sédentaires clandestins (excerpt) (2001), 4m01s
      • Composer: Diane Landry
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      Wave over Wave (excerpt) (2001), 4m06s
      • Composer: Rita McKeough
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      Bris (1993), 1m04s
      • Composer: Jean Routhier
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      Soundtrack (excerpt) (1996), 5m09s
      • Composer: Daniel Olson
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      • Composer: Hugh Le Caine
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      • Composer: Emmanuel Madan
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