week10 presentation about Hildgard Westerkamp

• many kinds of acoustic environments
• Fantacy for Horns II (1979)

I am really inspired by Hildegard Westerkamp’ s soundwalk which depicts different areas of Queen Elizabeth Park. It makes me think of my own project of sound scape. I also records a lot of sounds in different places such as the park lot, the penguin beach, the stream, the bird safari, indoor zoo, the downhill and outdoors. Maybe I can edit them together in post-production like Hildegard Westerkamp did. But I won's apply the voice-over like her, because I tend to bring audience a sense of nature soundscape but leads them in my way. I think Hildegard Westerkamp's voice-over added in the soundscape like a kind of the expository. In my editing , with orchestrations of outdoor and indoor sounds in London Zoo, I can  explore and create a sense of spatial dimension. In my opinion, the indoor reverberation indicates the size of an indoor space. Listeners’ perception of space, such as the size and material, is connotated by the variation of sounds on the loudness strength, timbre, distance and direction, which creates the actuality to motivate listeners listen actively in a mixture of reduced and casual listening modes.