Hildegard Westerkamp

Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. 
She is a pioneering figure within the field of soundscape studies and sound ecology and an integral member of the World Soundscape Project. She presents soundscape workshops, performs, writes and lectures internationally.

Essays

• "Soundwalking", Sound Heritage 3(4): "The World Soundscape Project", ed. R. Murray Schafer, 1974, pp 18-27; rev. version in Autumn Leaves, Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice, ed. Angus Carlyle, Paris: Double Entendre, 2007.
  • "Spacery dźwiękowe", trans. Kamila Kijowska, Glissando 26, 2015. (Polish)
  • "Soundwalking", trans. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Prague: Agosto Foundation, 2021. (Czech)

• "Listening and Soundmaking: A Study of Music-as-Environment", in Sound by Artists, eds. D. Lander and M. Lexier, Art Metropole & Walter Phillips Gallery, 1990.

• "The Soundscape on Radio", Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission, eds. Daina Augaitis and Dan Lander, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, 1994; repr., 2012.

• "Linking Soundscape Composition and Acoustic Ecology", Organised Sound 7:1, Apr 2002, pp 51-56.

• more

Interview

• Ear Room interview

Links

• https://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/
• http://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp