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Hildegard Westerkamp

Hildegard Westerkamp emigrated to Canada in 1968 and gave birth to her daughter in 1977. After completing her music studies in the early seventies her ears were drawn beyond music to the acoustic environment as a broader cultural context or place for intense listening. Whether as a composer, educator, or radio artist most of her work since the mid-seventies has centred around environmental sound and acoustic ecology. More

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Hildegard Westerkamp

Osnabrück (Niedersachsen, Germany), 1946

Residence: Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)

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