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Article: MUSIC.(Review)
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- Whole Earth
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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There are plenty of examples of recorded music that seem to breathe like living things. You can find them in the best of whatever kind of music you prefer. Below, though, are a few artists who have emphasized a powerful kinship with nature in their work, either through listening closely to what's out there, or by using natural sound as direct material inside their work.
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Hildegard Westerkamp. 1996. $25 postpaid. Empreintes Digitales, 4580 Avenue de Lorimier, Montreal QC H2H 2B5, Canada, 514/526-4096, 514/526-4487. dim@cam.org, www.cam.org.
Westerkamp began working with Murray Schafer's soundscape concepts in the 1970s while ...