‘A Walk Through The
City’ is a 16 minute and 2 second audio composition written by Norbert
Ruebsaat and composed by Hildegard Westerkamp in 1981, who also stars as the
feature voice. This audio production is described as an urban environmental
composition, which is based on the poem of the same name written by Norbert
Ruebsaat. ‘A Walk Through The City’
takes the listener on a mentally visual journey of an urban atmosphere and is
done so with clever use of sound compositing and the use of stereo sound to
create a three dimensional landscape.
I personally like this piece as
Westerkamp uses descriptive narration to verbally paint a clear and vibrant imagery
within the listeners mind. In conjunction to this, Westerkamp captured my
attention by the marvellous effect of simply lowering the volume of the
atmospheric sounds, to paint a clearer more realistic vision through the use of
realism. This technique truly connects you into this world and has inspired vast
ideas for my own work and sound productions and truly stood out. I have not
heard a more emotionally connecting audio production, since Jeff Wayne’s
musical version of H. G. Wells’ mind blowing story that is ‘War of the Worlds’
Bibliography
- Anon. (2015). Hildegard Westerkamp Transformations [online]. Electrocd.com. Date Accessed [17/10/2015]. URL: http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_1031/
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