Lounge in sound, bathe your ears in breezy sound-scapes and laid back tree songs created in the local treescape. Relax in our clifftop sonic glade, experience a digital ambient mix of audio ebbs, flows and leaf-whelmed song that take you to another plane. With live acoustic performances.
The project draws attention to the meadow birds that are threatened by too intensive use of the meadow landscape through making a translation of the experience of a meadow bird such as the black-tailed godwit to that of humans.
Originally commissioned by Vogelbescherming Nederland (Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds), with Oerol Festival in 2015 as part of a three year project developing artistic projects around meadow birds and bird migration. The island of Terschelling is an important sanctuary and feeding stop on the migrational routes, yet there is tension between intensive farming, tourism consumer behaviour and bird protection. This project examined these tensions openly through artistic installation involving the audience.
“De Weide Wereld” was brought to the UK for the Coastal Encounters programme for Inside Out Dorset festival 2018. Situated close to Poole Harbour, an internationally recognised site of importance for bird migration, the project related directly with the local bird populations and migrations.
