Breathing Room
Hildegard Westerkamp
Programme notes
This is the second in a series of Breathing Room pieces. Music as breath-like nourishment. Breathing as nourishing musical space. The breath — my breath — is heard throughout the three minutes. All sorts of musical/acoustic things happen as I breathe in and out. Each breath makes its own, unique statement, creates a specific place in time. Meanwhile the heart beats on, propelling time from one breath to the next.
Hildegard Westerkamp [xi-90]
Premiere
- November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Acousmonium: Concert 6: Électro clips, Théâtre Les Loges, Montréal (Québec)
- Composer(s): Hildegard Westerkamp
- Year of composition: 1990
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- ISWC: T0704787949
- Publisher(s): Yul média
- Duration: 3:04
- ISRC: CAD509612940