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Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist.
She presents soundscape workshops and lectures internationally, performs and writes.

"A magical fusion of sounds."
Globe & Mail, Toronto
  • "A magical fusion of sounds."
    Globe & Mail, Toronto
  • "There was more than just a hint of oracular mysticism in Westerkamp's art. There was a magic in those sounds.” Stephen Pedersen, Chronicle-Herald, Halifax
  • "Westerkamp's music balances a poetics of sound with social commitments that include feminism and environmental politics. Her compositions are critical enactments of acoustic space....All invoke attentive listening." Donna Zapf, Beiträge zur Neuen Music, Germany
  • "Westerkamp creates new possibilities for listening. One can journey with her sound to inner landscapes and find unexplored openings in our sound souls. The experience of her music vibrates the potential for change.”
    Pauline Oliveros,Kingston, N.Y., USA (about CD transformations)
  • "Mere words are inadequate to describe what took place when the symphony began....Waves of sound rolled back and forth across the harbour bringing thousands of downtown office workers to their windows. The Canada geese from Stanley Park were aroused and circled through the boats, honking loudly as they joined in." Ken Drushka, Harbour and Shipping) about the Harbour Symphony)
…narrative alchemy… The Wire, Issue 460

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Soundwalk and Concert at the Sound Forms Symposium, Copenhagen

October 11 - 13, 2018 in Denmark at the Sound Forms Symposium, Copenhagen

Hildegard will be leading a soundwalk and presenting her compositions Beneath the Forest Floor and Fantasie for Horns I at the final concert. Sound Forms is a 3-day experiential symposium of talks, sound walks, participatory scores and sound-based art that aims to engage people in concepts in Sound Studies, with an emphasis on sonic perception, Acoustic Ecology and listening practices. https://soundingbodies.kunstakademiet.dk/sound-forms-symposium/ See also Lotta Vuoro's article Experiencing Soundwalking: http://www.soundstudieslab.org/experiencing-soundw...

Conversations and workshops in Darmstadt, Germany

October 4 - 7, 2018 in Germany at The Global Composition 2018, a conference on Sound, Ecology, and Media Culture, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Media Campus Dieburg:

- Instead of an Opening Monologue: Hildegard Westerkamp in conversation with Sabine Breitsameter
- A daily workshop entitled Sustainable Soundwalking: Passing on and relaying Acoustic Ecology’s core practice.

Here is a link to a photo and tweet from Claude Schryer taken at the event.

Gently Penetrating…Florence, Italy

September 25, 2018 in Florence, Italy: Gently Penetrating Beneath the Sounding Surfaces of Another Place . See: http://www.temporeale.it/programma-2018-y/maratona-soundscape.html

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