Talking Rain
Hildegard Westerkamp
Notes de programme
To Peter Grant
Rain sounds from the westcoast of British Columbia, Canada are the basic compositional materials for Talking Rain. Through them I speak to you about this place. The raincoast. A lush and green place. Made that way by rain. Nourished by rain, life-giving rain. In Talking Rain the ear travels into the sonic formations of rain, into the insides of that place of nourishment as well as outside to the watery, liquid language of animals, forests and human habitations, all of which are nourished by the rain.
Talking Rain is dedicated to my long-time partner and friend Peter Grant. Before he passed away in 2014, we used to love taking rain walks together.
Talking Rain was commissioned by CBC Radio for the Westcoast Performance programme. It was realized in my own studio, Inside the Soundscape, and was premiered on April 20, 1997. Most rain recordings for this piece were made by myself in and around Vancouver. Thanks to Norbert Ruebsaat for providing his recordings of ravens, eagles and frogs from Haida Gwaii and also for finding the right title for the piece, magically. Thanks to Bruce Davis and Peter Huse for their high-quality recordings made in the early seventies for the World Soundscape Project’s environmental tape collection at Simon Fraser University
- Compositeur·trice(s): Hildegard Westerkamp
- Année de composition: 1997
- Durée: 17:31
- Instrumentation: support 8 canaux
- Commande: Westcoast Performance — CBC
