Hildegard Westerkamp

Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and soundscape researcher, born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1946 and based in Vancouver, Canada. She worked with R. Murray Schafer on the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University, and most of her work has been built from environmental sound, field recordings and the practice of attentive listening. Westerkamp also made radio programmes for Vancouver Co-operative Radio and taught acoustic communication at Simon Fraser University.