We had the honour of hosting artist Ingeborg Entrop at Mardu farm during her recording and exploration trips to Soomaa National Park and it's vast bogs. To mark down some of her doings and thoughts that came up during these visits and long talks behind our kitchen table between 2015 - 2016, we decided to write this short interview – for you to read and us to remember.  Read more

Ingeborg Entrop: Since the beginning of this year I have been visiting Soomaa regularly to record its sounds. These visits are part of a project in which I aim to (re)construct the sounds of the bog landscape that once surrounded Groningen (NL), the place I currently live. In autumn I will stay a few weeks in Soomaa again to continue this quest. Read more

A Dutch artist Ingeborg Entrop is going to stay at Mardu once again to continue her collection of sounds and pursue her quest for Estonian runo-song (in Estonian: regilaul). See also what she wrote about her background and project before her previous visit and read a kind of a follow-up post here:
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We are so happy that people who have a similar way of thinking to ours find their way to Mardu and the surrounding nature is a source of inspiration and subject of research. In the next coming weeks a Dutch artist Ingeborg Entrop is going to stay at Mardu and work on a field recording project in which she tries to establish what it actually means to exist somewhere. Read more what she wrote about her background and project: Read more