University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University
Known for
composer, radio art, acoustic ecology
Notable work
ssh … Noise Handbook; Listening and Soundmaking: a Study of Music-as-Environment
Website
www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca
Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher and sound ecologist of German origin.[1] She studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg, West Germany from 1966 to 1968 and moved to Canada in 1975. She received a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia in 1972 and a Master of Arts from Simon Fraser University in 1988.[2] She taught acoustic communication at Simon Fraser University from 1982 to 1991.
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