Interview with Hildegard Westerkamp
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Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer who focuses on listening, environmental sound and acoustic ecology. She was a member of the original World Soundscape Project, working with R. Murray Schafer; has taught courses in Acoustic Communication at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax; has worked with writers Norbert Ruebsaat and Sharon Thesen, with photographer Florence Debeugny and is conducting soundscape workshops and giving concerts and lectures internationally. Some of her compositional work appears in US filmmaker Gus van Sant’s films Elephant and Last Days. She is a founding member and is currently active on the board of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). She is a co-editor of Soundscape — The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, a publication of the WFAE.
Originally published in eContact! 10.2 — Entrevues / Interviews (1). Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community, August 2008.
