A meditative soundscape to make you feel calm and float in the space during the beautiful sunset in the mountain area Karakol in Kyrgyzstan. Enjoy this ambient drone track with a fine mellow style.
Blissful soundtrack for the Karakol Gorge landscape video. It starts acoustically with the Chinese instrument “Ruan“ connecting to the animals in the mountain areas in Central Asia. And it evolves with electronic piano melody and acoustic piano chords for the dream vibe in the Karakol Mountain gorge landscapes. The track has a bit of world music and acoustic style than the other “Air of Kyrgyzstan” tracks.
Jyrgalan is a lovely desolate small town in the east side of Kyrgyzstan. With many hikes in that mountain area it is very enjoyable to reach beautiful mountain lakes such as Turnaluu lake. The soundtrack of this video helps to enjoy the dream away vibe of these beautiful natural landscapes. It is a relaxing ambient space music track with mellow soundscapes, nature sounds and subtle acoustic piano tunes. The 4th single from the upcoming Suntapes EP "Air of Kyrgyzstan"
Qualitative compositional ambient space music with spiritual, tranquil and melodramatic atmosphere. The traditional electronic piano melody is recorded on Farfisa Soundmaker, the neoclassical arrangements on synthesizer and extra tunes on bass and glockenspiel. It's the soundtrack of a meditative video of the desolate mountain area Shatyly, part of 6 track of upcoming EP "Air of Kyrgyzstan" of Suntapes
One of the most standout Suntapes tracks. Release on 9 January 2026. Inspired by a peaceful grassland near the Barskoon waterfall, the track captures a quiet family moment after a mountain walk. Field recordings from the location form the foundation of the piece, blended with a slow piano melody and soft mellotron layers. Both melodies were recorded live while watching the video footage, creating a strong emotional link between sound and image.
Relax while watching the Issyk Kul video with the new Suntapes track that is released on 12 December 2025. While travelling in Kyrgyzstan in 2025, I filmed many beautiful nature landscapes inside Issyk Kul Lake and on the mountains around it. Even in summer it is easy to find desolate walking areas in that area on the east of Kyrgyzstan.
Towards the new Suntapes album TRAVEL MOTION , many singles are being released. These tracks immerse listeners in a cinematic vibe and travel motion. Each track is crafted with gentle melodies on warm acoustic instruments accompanied by atmospheric soundscapes and melodramatic arrangements. Perfect for relaxation and introspection. Plaza, Motion and Fathom combine minimalistic piano with Mellotron Flute and analogue synthesizers melodies.
EXTRiCATE is a reply to a world in overdrive, bringing “an ode to the greatness of the small and unnoticed.” In this intimate, circular, wordless performance, Bert & Tomas craft a world of handstands, live composition, dance, and sound effects. Their journey explores the hidden universes within what we often overlook. EXTRiCATE is a duet of a hand balancing dance performance and a live music & foley performance that offers the audience a soothing universe.
Artistic disciplines: Hand balancing dance, live composition, foley & details
Duration: 50 min
Audience: Age: 10 - 100 , Max. 100 people
Location: Tent, Theatre & Black box
Shows
8 Nov 2025 De Roma, Antwerpen, BE
15 Nov 2025: Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof, Pelt, BE
30 januari 2026: GC Ten Weyngaert Vorst (Brussels), BE
01 maart 2026: De Figuranten Menen, BE
Previous shows
04 Oct 2025 - De Vieze Gasten, Gent, BE
17 May 2025 - Trapezi Festival Reus, ES
25 Jan 2025. - GC Pianofariek Sint-Gillis, BE
15 Dec 2024. - 30CC Stadschouwburg Leuven, BE
12 Dec 2024. - GC De Kroon Sint-Agatha-Berchem, BE
27 Nov 2024. - GC De Linde - Haren Brussel, BE
8 Nov 2024 - MiraMiro - De Expeditie Gent, BE
Contact & booking
Bert Vanden Berghe – info@bertberg.com – +32 478 577 866 – www.bertberg.com
Bekijk de volledige creatielijn van de voorstelling Extricate sinds eind 2023. Massa’s onderzoek, residenties, toonmomenten
concept & circus performance: Bert Berg
Composition & music performance: Suntapes
Dramaturgy: Margot Jansens
Choreography: Roseta Plasencia
Light design: Casper Van Overschee
Production: Lien Vanbossele
Exterior ear: Aifoon vzw
Coproduction: PERPLX, Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof & CIRKLABO
with financial support: Flemish government, Miramiro & Blinkout
More context
Hand balancing artist Bert Berg explores the boundaries of handstand based on intrinsically driven movements. Composer Suntapes is extrapolating the minimalistic approach in his live compositions. The interaction between both worlds is the base of the new performance “Extricate”.
Make it dark so we can see the smallest light roar across the sky!
While the audience starts focusing on details, an unravelling participative performance unfolds itself. The piece leans on the artistic harmony between a language created out of a new approach to hand-balancing and minimal musical compositions that invites active listening.
The project rebels in all ‘gentle calmness’ against a society that many perceive as too intense, over-consuming and over-saturated with choices. The harmonious analog universe that this performance creates is our answer to this.
Album "Phantom" by Tomas Johan Kristian is out on September 27th. Wavering between melodramatic subtle beauty and energetic minimalism, the solo piano pieces of Tomas Johan Kristian have a soothing feel and warm sound. His quirky approach to classical compositions sprung from his character to avoid the expected and to submerge in his own organic connection with repetitiveness.
Diverse atmospheric musical reflections of wild country side. The pictures I once took early in the morning in the east of Taiwan keep bringing me back. Wild Country, that’s where I want to be. Enjoy the diverse atmospheric sound, disappear from the hectic life and stay in Wild Country for 17 minutes.
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.
Looking for an audiovisual performance to slow down an audience? Get in touch!
Duration: 50 minutes
Artistic elements
Live looping soundscape music by Suntapes
Projection of the 6K video created by Glenn Verdickt
Audience
Sitting down audience
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.
New full album Laguna is out on all streaming platforms! Tranquil psychedelic music with an experimental touch focusing on repetitiveness of warm analogue and acoustic sounds. Feel the soothing ritualist vibe.
Bete de somme: dance show at Festival International de Danse Me.Ya.Be @ La Francophonie in Kinshasa 2023.
A project from artist Deogracias Kihalu with another danser from the group of choreographer Jacques Bana Yanga.
An abstract dance in a post-apocalyptic empty landscape. The remnant is the only person left in this world. He is struggling and trying to find his way.
The soundtrack of this video is an electronic instrumental synthwave-like tune built around the unique vintage sound of the 1979 Farfisa Soundmaker synthesizer. Quirky arpeggiators evolve around wobbly sounds and distant field recordings in an atmospheric trip.
Trying to make sense in a post-apocalyptic world. Video for 'The Remnant' by Suntapes Produced by Tomas Vanderplaetse Directed & Edited by Quinten Prinsen Fe...
Credits
Robin Leo: Dance
Quinten Prinsen: Camera and post production
Kasper Jordaens: Additional Video FX
Suntapes: Music & Concept
Diverse atmospheric musical reflections of wild country side. The pictures I once took early in the morning in the east of Taiwan keep bringing me back. Wild Country, that’s where I want to be. Enjoy the diverse atmospheric sound, disappear from the hectic life and stay in Wild Country for 17 minutes.
𝗚𝗼𝗗𝗼𝗴𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁 - dance with a wink to Beckett. The first lockdown 2020. ARC - dance company, saw a parallel between the story of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' and the world we found ourselves in at the time: waiting an absurdly long time before we were allowed to do what we love again. Coupled with a sometimes absurd series of measures, which created a sense of living in a surrealistic twilight zone.
And the inspiration followed. ARC wanted to translate Beckett's surrealistic play into dance. But how do you portray mental confusion? The dance company started looking, and came up with the combination 'punk rock meets ballet'. Under the title GoDogWait, a nod to Beckett's piece.
In GoDogWait, classical dance and punk rock go hand in hand. Music and dance meet on the border of the experimental and create a story that captures the essence of Beckett's play. GoDogWait is a collaboration between different disciplines.
As musicians we were inspired by the story. Dancers are guided by the music. Live, that gives intensity, sparks, and waiting while something does happen. We called this genre of music: DANCE PUNK. Combining electronic dance music with synthesizers, with a punk tempo on drums and distorted bass guitar sound:
☆Dancers: Aki Nishio, Agnieszka Agi Romek, Jean-Louis Decock, Maciej Piotr Beczek.
☆Live Music: Tomas VANDERPLAETSE & Sven De POTTER, Jente NEELS & Michiel VanDeWinkel
Première: 29.10.2022
The new Suntapes single Forgotten Field is out! An organically evolving ambient story with a dreamy and hypnotic vibe.
Take a morning walk alongside the river in a quiet Japanese town, absorbing the early sunlight coming through the trees on the riverside.
Inspired by the Indian Summer Soul in the amazing image of Photographer Sofie Vosk, Suntapes recorded a gloomy soundtrack for the imaginary story behind it. The album catches summertime melancholy in 8 neoclassical piano pieces with gloomy arrangements. All tracks are recorded on a 1881 Bechstein Grand piano with close miking techniques, including it’s wooden creaking sounds and felt sounds.
Four tranquil compositional ambient pieces created around inspirational field recordings and the warm sound and lush resonance of the Bechstein grand piano.