Environmental Sound Compositions

Description:

Western Front presented an evening of tape compositions from Canada, Japan, France, New Zealand, and the United States as part of the Music from the New Wilderness festival.

Program:

Hildegard Westerkamp and Barry Truax, Pacific New Year 1980

Jack Body, Musik Dari Jalan

François Barrière, Java Rosa

Anne Holmes, Wood on Wood on Water

Makoto Shinohara, City Visit

The evening was organized by Barry Truax of the International Circuit of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM—a network of composers who exchanged taped electronic music in the mail. 

Audio documentation available upon request.