Interview with Hildegard Westerkampo: “Once you start listening to the world you are dealing with life”

In this interview — which was recorded in January 2021 as part of the project “AUDIRE. Audio Repository: saving sonic-based memories” — Hildegard Westerkamp explains how original and unique a soundwalk can be and how inspiring or disturbing the urban acoustic experience can be today. The concept of soundscape and the notion of conscious listening are here considered fundamental to understand our relationship with the environment.

Repensar a Bouça

2024 – apresentação da publicação
Raquel S., Amarante Abramovici, Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela, Cláudia Martinho e Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves

Towards a creative regeneration

While all life is interconnected and interdependent, we are the only species that has become separated from itself, from other species and from the web of life that sustains us. The extractive and colonising system that controls and depletes the non-renewable resources on which we depend has separated us from the cycles of regenerative life and the Earth’s abundance, with devastating effects on entire ecosystems. Given the ecological challenges we face, in my practice I’ve been questioning how we, as creative beings, can regenerate our interconnection with the web of life on our planet.

Shores – Invisible Places

Article on the proceedings of Invisible Places Symposium, Sound Urbanism and Sense of Place, Sao Miguel, Azores.
The aural experience Shores seeks to value artisanal fishing as an important part of the cultural heritage of São Miguel and the Azores, which has been drastically declining. A boat was converted into an acoustic shell to transmit a sonic memory of the fishing community, on a soundscape travel through places and ecosystems of São Miguel’ shores.

Aural Architecture Practice: Creative Approaches Towards an Ecology of Affect

Practice-based research towards a Ph.D. in Music – Sonic Arts. Unit for Sound Practice Research, Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom. Supervision by Professor John Levack Drever and Dr. Iris Garrelfs. Fellowship by the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (2011-2014).

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