Hildegard Westerkamp
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1946-04-08
composercontemporary classicalelectroacousticexperimental electronicmusique concrète
Discography
- Harbour Symphony1986
- Transformations1996
- Into India2002
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Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a German and Canadian composer of contemporary music, and a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Many of her compositions deal with the acoustic environment. Particular themes include soundscapes of urban or rural areas, including voices, noise, silence, music and media, and so on. In several of these compositions, she incorporates the poetry of her then-partner, Canadian writer Norbert Ruebsaat. <a href="
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hildegard
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Osnabrück
- Educated at
- University of British Columbia
- Employer
- Simon Fraser University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- composer
- Genre
- electronic music
- Official website
- www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca
- Residence
- Vancouver
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- date of birth
- 1946-04-08
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