# Hildegard Westerkamp
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hildegard westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher and sound ecologist of German origin. She studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg, West Germany from 1966 - 1968 and moved to Canada in 1975. She received a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia in 1972 and a Masters in Arts from Simon Fraser University in 1988.
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition
Today we speak to Hildegard Westerkamp, the pioneering composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. The centerpiece of all of her work is a close attention to the sonic environment and its relation to culture. We will listen to excerpts of six soundscape compositions made between 1975 and 2005, all …
20250510 - Remembering Andra McCartney with Hildegard Westerkamp, Wendalyn Bartley and Gayle Young - Making Waves
<p>In this edition of Making Waves we pay tribute to the work of the late Andra McCartney who died in 2019. She was a composer, radio artist, educator, biographer and musicologist active in Canada in the fields of electroacoustic music and soundscape studies. Her colleagues and close friends …
e225 hildegard westerkamp – when we were young
The first thing that comes to mind is my young activist in me that says, of course, let's just fight. Let's just do what we can to speak out against, be revolutionary, be, you know, like we were when we were young in the 60s, 70s. Now I think that my response is to stop and to slow down and to do …
e226 roundtable - listening in relation
This is a special edition of conscient roundtable featuring Lara Felsing, Adrian Avendaño, Hildegard Westerkamp, Toni-Leah C. Yake as part of the Listening in Relation gathering at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on March 21-23, 2025 on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of…
7-26-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
This week we're airing "Intortus," the winner of the 2024 Musicworks electronic music composition contest, created by composer Rocío Cano Valiño. In addition, you'll hear the unique cornucopia of interesting music that has defined PTE for the past 35 years.
Enjoy!
Joel
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Gabriel Saloman Mindel Pt. 1: Yellow Swans, Noise, and the Art of Pushing Boundaries
Gabriel Saloman Mindel is a lot more than one half of the United States best known noise bands. He's also an interdisciplinary artist and a scholar whose research studies the interplay between sound and power, as he theorizes how noise can push the limits of the body in struggles over space and pol…
Figures
"A crowded procession of singular figures, images and imaginaries, possible futures
"“Figures” is built upon a field recording of a threshold zone where the mountains begin to yield to the plains, and where the river itself is divided since a part of its water is withdrawn into a side channel fo…
Listening with Hildegard Westerkamp, Acoustic Ecology Composer
What if the world around us is a continuous symphony and listening is how we become part of it?
In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I sit down with pioneering acoustic ecology composer Hildegard Westerkamp, whose life's work has transformed the way we think about sound, place, and our rel…
Our Sacred Earth: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee grew up with a Sufi teacher living downstairs and fell in love with jazz at an early age. He is now a Sufi teacher himself, a filmmaker, and the founder of Emergence Magazine. His new book Remembering Earth asks what it would take to come back into relationship with the living …
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