Regenerative flows

An immersive audiovisual performance that drags an audience to the details of this unique evolving landscape as full frame realistic visual journey with a live soundscape music performance using analogue synths, warm acoustic instruments Chinese Ruan, Thumb piano, Thai pin and also a bass guitar and experimental sound effects.

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Duration: 50 minutes

Artistic elements
Live looping soundscape music by Suntapes
Projection of the 6K video created by Glenn Verdickt

Audience
Sitting down audience capacity: 50-250
Age: 10+

Location
Theatre, Cinema, Black box, …

Last show
17 january 2025: Kapow Ghent BE

Contact & booking
Mail: suntapesmusic@gmail.com
+32 479635589

Credits

Z33: Healing Water exposition 2023
Artwork “Regenerative Flows” : Sep Verboom
Videographer: Glenn Verdickt
Composition & Live music: Suntapes

Financial support: Flemish government

This performance is based on the 2023 artwork Installation by Sep Verboom (designer of the year 2020). More info:

Artwork Installation by Sep Verboom

In 2023 we started our exploration resulting in an live installation for the Z33 exposition Healing Water.
Inspired by the process of limestone deposition we created a six month hydrochemical simulation where slaked lime (Ca(OH)₂) and atmospheric carbons (CO₂) precipitate into a solid carbon locking landscape of limestone.

This living landscape that grew and evolved in time was a place where silence reigned and time seemed to slow down. As the elements in the limestone exhale, CO2 reacts with slaked lime, gradually forming a solid carbonaceous landscape. Regenerative Flows invites us to slow down, to reflect on the world around us. It is a reminder that beauty and complexity can come from the simplest materials and the most basic processes.

During these months we investigated how it is possible to translate this natural process into a multi layered landscape, to which various designers and artists can then respond, creating a symbolic landscape in addition to a physical one. 

The installation was a starting point for different artistic perspectives to inspire and co-create, adding new poetic layers to the installation. The ultra high resolution video images of the limestone artwork are abstract varying landscapes views that slowly evolve and pull an audience in a unique and unknown universe.  Suntapes added a soothing live music performance to these immersive video .
The auditive universe contains the sounds of the artwork and a relaxing & evolving composition with acoustic instruments, analogue synths and effects.

Soundtrack Bestia del clima

Ecoprins is an organization that tells moving stories about ecology worldwide. For their documentary “Bestia del Clima” the team spent several months in Central America to capture stories of people affected by climate change. The film follows 3 people as they struggle in their own way.

Bestia del clima was in avant premiere on Dec 7th 2019 and is shown on several festivals. Read the article in Mo.

Watch the trailer of the documentary:

Suntapes was commissioned to compose music for the documentary. The sounds and music were chosen to reinforce the tension and hopelessness of the protagonists in their search for a better future.

125 BPM

125 BPM is the tempo at which the Cyr wheel turns when manipulated. With this modern dance performance with the Cyr wheel the Belgian/French duo André-Leo leave spectators in awe and full of emotion. The music composition started early in the creation phase of the performance. The music adds to the dreamy part of their world and at the same time it reinforces the energy at a tempo of 125 BPM. During the tour in 2019, 2020 in Belgium, France and Italy, the music was performed live on stage.

Watch the trailer:

CREDITS

Production: Robin Leo & Jean Baptiste André

Composition & live music: Suntapes

Technician: Liam Van Tornhout

Trailer: Jakob Rosseel

Circus in Flanders

Circus these days has become something totally different than most people think. Circus acts in Belgium are very disperse, modern and always a bit surreal. No wonder most of these  companies play shows all over the world. In coöperation with Circuscentrum Vlaanderen we're creating videos to show what circus in Flanders is all about.

Together with cameraman Jakob Rosseel we created 20 one-minute films that show each circus company in an outside setting somewhere in Flanders. Location hunting was an interesting part. We used deserted harbor areas, roundabouts, train tunnels, graveyards, strange houses, rooftops.  

For every film I composed a custom soundtrack to go along with the vibe of the act.  

Check out some of the films below and all the films on the website of Circuscentrum

Chrysalis

Chrysalis is an anatomical reconfiguration with latex on a live dancer as a performance. Leeroy New is a renowned contemporary artist from Manilla in the Philippines. During the performance, he attaches latex and paint to dancer Ea Torrado after which she breaks out of the latex. A video impression of the experience: 

Carefully selected acoustic sounds and analogue synth sounds emulating the stretching of latex develop into an organic composition in interaction with the dance performance. A quirky experimental dance vibe that Ea moves to freeing herself from the latex.

Credits

Concept, costume & lights: Leeroy New  (leeroynew.com)

Dancer: Ea Torrado (eatorrado.com)

Music: Suntapes

Production: Kapow Movement

Year: 2016