Incorporating diverse media, such as sound, text, and moving image, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of climate crisis, human intervention in the environment and ecology, urbanity, migration, race and decolonization. Also in 2017 Hildegard’s ways of composing and listening were presented on CBC IDEAS: įor more information see also : Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (Netherlands / India)īudhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist, composer, researcher, and writer. Her composition Klavierklang for pianist Rachel Iwaasa had its world premiere at ISCM’s World Music Days in Vancouver, November 2017. Her compositions have been discussed in various articles, and extensively in Andra McCartney’s dissertation of 1999, Sounding Places: Situated Conversations through the Soundscape Work of Hildegard Westerkamp, listed in: Įxcerpts of her compositions appear in Gus van Sants’ films Elephant and Last Days and more recently she collaborated on the soundtrack of Nettie Wild’s film Koneline. Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) Westerkamp’s pioneering musical works and writing at the intersections of environmentalism, acoustic communication, radio arts, listening practices and soundwalking activate an awareness that sound is a decisive dimension of the world, an idea that underpins contemporary thinking across social, political, artistic and scientific practices of environmental respect and concern. For some years now she has mentored a variety of younger composers, sound designers, soundwalk leaders and people pursuing careers in soundscape studies and acoustic ecology.

She has conducted soundscape workshops, given concerts and lectures, and has coordinated and led Soundwalks locally and internationally. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project, is a founding and board member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and was long-time editor of its journal Soundscape.

At the beginning of her career she worked with R. Composer Hildegard Westerkamp focuses on listening, environmental sound and acoustic ecology.

The chinese feast soundtrack