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sound, and landscape cinema.
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Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. Originally from Germany, she emigrated to Canada in 1968 and since then has lived on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples - the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), Tsleil-Waututh (Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh), and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations. She is a pioneering figure within the field of soundscape studies and sound ecology and an integral member of the World Soundscape Project. Westerkamp’s works sit at the intersections of environmentalism, acoustic communication, radio arts, listening practices and soundwalking, and activate an awareness that sound is a decisive dimension of the world – an idea that underpins contemporary thinking across social, political, artistic, and scientific practices of environmental respect and concern.