Listen to the podcast Geluidenatlas

Popcorn popping against the pan, rain leaking from a gutter, empty cans rattling in the wind ...

Try to put a sound into words and you soon fall back on descriptions and metaphors. There is very little vocabulary to really communicate about sound. Why is that? And above all: what can we do about it? These are the central questions that six experts, each with their own expertise, tackle in the new three-part podcast 'Geluidenatlas'.

In three short episodes interviewer Thomas Smolders discusses sound, sense and language with six experts, drawing on their personal knowledge and experience.

• Stijn Dickel (artistic leader aifoon) about the artistic possibilities of sound, listening and listening art.
• Ria Decoopman (director Symfoon / Zicht-op-Cultuur) about the importance of sound for the visually impaired and how sighted people are "blind" in listening.
• Philippe Van Cauteren (artistic director S.M.A.K.) about how it is an art to observe precisely and to find words to talk about art.
• Frederik Van de Moortel (musician / sound designer) about how sound gives extra meaning to image and film.
• Kurt Feyaerts (Prof. Linguistics KU Leuven) about the possibilities of language and sound symbolism.
• Sepideh Sedaghatnia (sommelier): about linking words to sensory experiences like taste, smell, sound.