Hildegard Westerkamp

“Imagine radio that, instead of numbing us to sounds, strengthens our imagination and creativity; instead of manipulating us into faster work and more purchasing, it inspires us to invent; instead of overloading us with irrelevant information and fatiguing us, it refreshes our acoustic sensitivity; instead of moving us to ignore thoughts and surroundings, it stimulates listening” (Westerkamp; 2002:89)

"The majority of her compositional output deals with aspects of the acoustic environment: with urban, rural or wilderness soundscapes, with the voices of children, men and women, with noise or silence, music and media sounds, or with the sounds of different cultures, and so on. She has composed film soundtracks, sound documents for radio and has produced and hosted radio programs such as Soundwalking, and Musica Nova on Vancouver Co-operative Radio."

'From the Indian Sound Journal' is one of Westerkamps recording in which she recorded snapshots of places she had visited in India. It takes the listener to locations they have never been or seen and creates the atmosphere and makes an unfamiliar place, familiar through sound. This is something that I want to capture within my podcast; Fox hunting is something very little people know about or have truly experienced, I want my podcast to inform my listeners and create sounds and atmosphere that they can link to the topic.