Dates
wed 21 oct 2026 - 20:00
location
Theaterstudio
price
€ 10 → 30
language
Spoken language: Dutch, English/ Surtitles: Dutch, English
Is part of
Festival Shifting Sounds
Farida Amadou / Louis Vanhaverbeke / LOUD muziektheater

What hidden lives lie buried in the ground?

Soil Biographies is a sensory sound performance in which two versatile artists, Louis Vanhaverbeke and Farida Amadou, engage in a musical dialogue with the earth. Together, they create a ritual performance about the subconscious, growth and hidden life. About the ground beneath our feet and the voices that rise from it.

Following a period of mental turmoil, theatre maker Louis Vanhaverbeke found solace in farming. Contact with the earth became his way of staying literally connected to the world. Farida Amadou, an acclaimed bassist on the international improvisation scene, approaches sound as a physical force. Her practice is rooted in attentive listening and physical presence, whereby ‘grounding’ is not only a connection to the earth, but also a way of connecting with oneself and with others through sound.

Together, they construct a playing field in which the earth becomes both a backdrop, an instrument and a fellow performer. They unearth hidden feelings, lost objects, discomfort, comfort and everything that usually remains beneath the surface. Between beauty and filth, a breathing and spellbinding landscape of sound and transformation emerges. The earth becomes a source of sound, whilst sounds cause the earth to vibrate.

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Credits

concept, music, performance
Farida AmadouLouis Vanhaverbeke
concept, dramaturgy
Dries Douibi
artistic preliminary research in collaboration with
Melissa Mabesoone
sound design, sound engineering
Arthur de Vuyst
light design, lichting technique
Remco Wuyts
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