The Ambient Camp
Six creators are working on Vlieland on soothing new music.
2025
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May 20, 2025
In the first week of June, six leading Dutch ambient musicians will gather on Vlieland for a writing and recording camp. For five days, they will work on the island on new compositions, using field recordings of the dunes, the sea, and the forest as inspiration and instruments. The residency – the Ambient Camp – is a collaboration between Into The Great Wide Open and Ambient Curation, the platform of musician Jasper Boogaard alias J.T. Boogaard.
The music created during the camp will be presented through Ambient Curation and will have its live premiere during Into The Great Wide Open 2025. The residency takes place from June 2 to 6 in the cinema hall of Brouwerij Fortuna, overlooking the dunes of Vlieland.
Keeping Up with Time
Ambient music has seen a quiet rise for years. With millions of listeners on streaming services like Spotify and Bandcamp, the genre is appealing to more and more people, precisely because it revolves around calm, atmosphere, and detail. Yet, ambient music can still be found very little on stages. With the Ambient Camp, Into The Great Wide Open aims to change that. The tranquil music especially finds the space it deserves on Vlieland – in the midst of nature.
The six participants come from all over the Netherlands and each bring their own perspective:
J.T. Boogaard: lo-fi ambient with field recordings (Rotterdam)
Laura Kampman: collages of voices, guitars, and found sounds (The Hague)
Oceanic: an ever-adventurous producer who collaborates with voice artist Greetje Bijma (Amsterdam)
Rindert Lammers: melancholic music at the intersection of ambient, jazz, and folk, inspired by Japanese cinema (Nijmegen)
Ramses3000: electronics for listening, inspired by game soundtracks, jazz, and medieval music (Tilburg)
Ruisvogel: DIY tape music where noise and ambient meet (Rotterdam)
Just like previous camps (such as the punk residency Uitholling Bovenlangs and earlier projects by, among others, S10 and Personal Trainer), this project will also be documented in a video report.
