# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hildegard-westerkamp
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:12:55.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hildegard-westerkamp"
name: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
slug: "hildegard-westerkamp"
description: "Hildegard Westerkamp is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist. She is known for her contributions to and development of acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and soundwalks, particularly through her work on the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s and 1980s. She has written extensively on these topics for journals and conferences, including Organised Sound."
tagline: "German-Canadian composer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             10.21276595744681
  historical:           9.415984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2929696/"
    handle:    "nm2929696"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE"
    title: "هيلديجارد ويستيركامپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp"
    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp"
    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp"
    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp"
    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp"
    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Westerkamp"
    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D0%B5%D2%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF"
    title: "Гільдеґард Вестеркамп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/08f42fcc-6bcc-4bab-9079-91c6e935e81a"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Hildegard Westerkamp"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump