The Sound Sails
Season 1

Ivar bij de wadpier op Terschelling
Ivar van Bekkum returns from placing recording equipment near the mudflats.

The Sound Sails, season 2020/Het Geluid Vaart, seizoen 2020
Created for the occasion of the Oerol-Festival,
Terschelling, The Netherlands.
Audio, 5 episodes of one hour long unintrupted field recordings. Recorded on the Dutch island Terschelling.

Description
Imagine: you’re gonna lie back somewhere out there with your eyes closed. You listen, you feel the sun on your face. This is ‘The Sound Sails’, a podcast that makes precisely that possible, wherever you are. Each episode consists of one hour of continuous sound, recorded somewhere on Terschelling. Every day a new hour: The surf, a meadow full of birds or a forest edge. This way you can enjoy the island feeling, without inconveniences like rain, mosquitoes or thistles. We have already endured those for you.
With sounds, it’s almost as if they just are present, but in fact, they travel all the time – the sound sails.

The Sound Sails/Het Geluid Vaart is included in the collection of Museum for Sound and Vision (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid)

Esther in het weiland vol meeuwen
Esther Polak returns from placing recording equipment in a seagull colony.

All episodes of The Sound Sails

Credits
Sound technician: Arno Peeters
Commissioned by Marin de Boer for OEROL 2020
VriendenLoterij Fonds

Press about the 2020 edition (in Dutch)
– HUMAN: In Het Geluid Vaart brengen PolakVanBekkum de geluiden van het eiland in een serie podcasts naar de bezoekers toe.
– NRC: Ivar van Bekkum en Esther Polak proberen de stilte te vangen in de podcastreeks Het geluid vaart.

Listen all 2020 episodes of The Sound Sails

The Sound Sails Episode 3, season 2022 is also available with English intro on the beautiful internet audio podcast station Framework radio.

Het Intro (Dutch)

by PolakVanBekkum | The Sound Sails | Het Geluid Vaart 2020

Seagull island - Het meeuweneiland

by PolakVanBekkum | The Sound Sails | Het Geluid Vaart 2020

The edge of the forest - De bosrand

by PolakVanBekkum | The Sound Sails | Het Geluid Vaart 2020

The creek at outgoing tide - De kreek bij afgaand tij

by PolakVanBekkum | The Sound Sails | Het Geluid Vaart 2020

The baby dune - Het babyduintje

by PolakVanBekkum | The Sound Sails | Het Geluid Vaart 2020

The lugworm - De wadpier

by PolakVanBekkum | The Sound Sails | Het Geluid Vaart 2020