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| TITLE | YEAR OF COMPOSITION | INSTRUMENTATION | COMMISSIONED BY | CITY | PROVINCE | COUNTRY | PREMIERE DATE | PREMIERE VENUE | PREMIERE CITY | PREMIERE PROVINCE | PREMIERE COUNTRY | PREMIERE PERFORMERS | FINANCIAL SUPPORT | NOTE | QUESTION FOR HILDI |
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| Once Upon A Time | 2012 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by the Western Front | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Premiere: January 20, 2012 | Western Front | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Caleb and Caius Martin-Ruebsaat, narrators; girl's voice: Sonja Ruebsaat | a fairytale written by Hildegard Westerkamp | ||
| MotherVoiceTalk | 2008 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by Vancouver New Music | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Premiere: February 20, 2008 | Vancouver East Cultural Centre | Vancouver | BC | Canada | ||||
| Liebes-Lied/Love Song | 2005 | cello and 8-channel audio | commissioned by Open Ears Festival | Kitchener | Ontario | Canada | Premiere: April 30, 2005 | Open Ears Festival | Kitchener | Ontario | Canada. | ||||
| Für Dich-for You | 2005 | 8-channel audio | commissioned by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) | Karlsruhe | Germany | Premiere: Feb. 11, 2005 | ZKM | Karlsruhe | Germany. | ||||||
| Breaking News | 2002 | one digital soundtrack | commissioned by CBC Radio for its September 11 special programming | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Premiere: September 11, 2002 | CBC Radio One | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | ||||
| Like a Memory | 2002 | piano and 2-channel audio | commissioned by Jamie Syer and the Valhalla Summer School of Music | Premiere: August 16, 2002 | Valhalla Summer School of Music | Silverton | BC | Canada | financial assistance from the Vancouver Foundation | ||||||
| Attending to Sacred Matters (long and short version) | 2002 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by the Association of Canadian Women Composers (ACWC) | Premiere (short version): January 27, 2002 | Then, Now and Beyond, A Festival of Music by Women | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | |||||||
| Into the Labyrinth | 2000 | 8-channel diffusion | commissioned by New Adventures in Sound | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Premiere: June 18, 2000 | Gibraltar Point Arts Centre,Toronto Island | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | ||||
| Gently Penetrating Beneath the Sounding Surfaces of Another Place | 1997 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by Groupe de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (GMEB) | Bourges | France | Premiere: October 21, 1997 | India International Centre | New Delhi | India | Honorary mention, Prix ars electronica, Linz, Austria, 1998 | |||||
| Talking Rain | 1997 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by CBC Radio for Westcoast Performance | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Radio Premiere: April 20, 1997 | CBC Radio | Vancouver | BC | Canada | ||||
| Dhvani | 1996 | 2-channel audio | Premiere: November 10, 1996 | Vancouver East Cultural Centre | Vancouver | BC | Canada | ||||||||
| Sensitive Chaos | 1995 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by Winnipeg New Music Festival | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada | Premiere: January 28, 1995 | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada | |||||
| From the India Sound Journal, work in progress | 1993 | spoken voice and 2-channel audio | Premiere: June 22, 1993 | Vancouver East Cultural Centre | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Hildegard Westerkamp, voice | Radio premiere: same date on "Wireless Graffiti", Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO. Composition continued until 1999. | ||||||
| Beneath the forest Floor | 1992 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by CBC Radio for Two New Hours | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Radio premiere: May 17, 1992 | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Recommended for Broadcast by the 4th International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music, 1992. Honorouble mention, Prix Italia 1994 | |||
| Breathing Room 3 - A Self Portrait | 1911 | spoken voice and 2-channel audio | Premiere: May 19, 1991 | Pitt Gallery | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Hildegard Westerkamp, voice | |||||||
| My Horse and I | 1991 | 2-channel audio with poem and reading by Sharon Thesen | Premiere: May 19, 1991 | Pitt Gallery | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Sharon Thesen, voice | |||||||
| École Polytechnique | 1990 | 8 church bells, mixed choir, bass clarinet, trumpet, percussion and 2-channel audio | commissioned by Montreal Musiques Actuelles/New Music America 1990 | Montréal | Québec | Canada | Premiere: Nov. 3, 1990 | New Music America | Montréal | Québec | Canada | ||||
| Breathing Room | 1990 | 2-channel audio | commissioned by Diffusion i MeDIA for the CD Electro clips | Montréal | Québec | Canada | Premiere: Nov. 2, 1990 | New Music America | Montréal | Québec | Canada | ||||
| Breathing Room 2 | 1990 | 2-channel audio, bottles and audience | Premiere: April 1990 | Surrey Arts Centre | Surrey | BC | Canada | ||||||||
| The Deep Blue Sea | 1989 | spoken voice and 2-channel audio | Premiere: March 30, 1989 | Vancouver Art Gallery | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Norbert Ruebsaat, voice | a collaboration with Norbert Ruebsaat, text by Brian Shein | ||||||
| Kits Beach Soundwalk | 1989 | spoken voice and 2-channel audio | Premiere: March 30, 1989 | Vancouver Art Gallery | Vancouver | BC | Hildegard Westerkamp, voice | ||||||||
| Harbour Symphony, St. John's Harbour | 1989 | six boat horns in St. John's Harbour, Nfld | Premiere: July 1988 | Sound Symposium | St. John's | Nfld | Canada | ||||||||
| Music from the Zone of Silence: Desertwind * Meditation * The Truth is Acoustic | 1988 | one to four voices and 2-channel audio | Premiere: July 1988 | Sound Symposium | St. John's | Nfld | Canada | ||||||||
| Moments of Laughter | 1988 | female voice and 2-channel audio | commissioned by Vancouver New Music Society | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Premiere: March 1988 | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Meg Sheppard, voice | ||||
| Cricket Voice | 1987 | 2-channel audio | Premiere: June 1987 | Community Arts Council | Vancouver | BC | Canada | ||||||||
| Harbour Symphony, Vancouver Harbour | 1986 | over 100 boat horns in Vancouver Harbour | commissioned by Canada Pavilion, EXPO '86 | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Premiere: May 1986 | Vancouver Harbour | Vancouver | BC | Canada | ||||
| His Master's Voice | 1985 | 2-channel audio program note | WHAT IS 'PROGRAM NOTE'? | ||||||||||||
| Cool Drool | 1984 | A performance piece for spoken voice and 2-channel audio | Premiere: February 1984 | Vancouver East Cultural Centre | Vancouver | BC | Canada | Hildegard Westerkamp, voice | |||||||
| A Walk Through the City | 1981 | 2-channel audio with poem and reading by Norbert Ruebsaat | commissioned by Two New Hours, CBC Radio | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | First Broadcast: April 1981 | Norbert Ruebsaat, voice | |||||||
| Fantasie for Horns II | 1979 | French Horn and 4-channel audio | Premiere: 1979 | Music Gallery | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | James MacDonald, French Horn | |||||||
| Fantasie for Horns I | 1978 | 4-channel audio | Premiere: 1978 | Western Front Gallery | Vancouver | BC | Canada | ||||||||
| Familie mit Pfiff (Theme and Variations) | 1976 | 2-channel audio | Premiere: Oct. 1976 | Osnabrück | Germany | ||||||||||
| Whisper Study | 1975 | 2-channel audio | Premiere: 1975 | Western Front Gallery | Vancouver | BC | Canada |