In La Floresta, Hans Beckers explores the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. How do we experience silence in this technological age? How can we connect with our environment through listening? La Floresta is an audiovisual concert that immerses you in a deep sensory experience.
The work is a complex and layered interplay between listening and perceiving that goes beyond a classical concert, embracing both individual and collective experience. In an innovative way, La Floresta weaves participation, awareness, connection, and ritual into a unique complete experience.
We all share the ability to listen. La Floresta invites you to open your ears, pause, and pay attention to sounds that we might otherwise overlook –like listening to the enormous richness and polyphonic complexity of a river, which can be experienced in all its detail and as a whole at the same time.
In this performance, Hans Beckers, together with fellow musicians Berlinde Deman, Nathan Daems and Robbe Kieckens, enters into dialogue with sound sculptures that return to the roots of music, using materials that humans first used to produce sound. Nature and technology flow together organically, as contradictory elements that seem to coexist yet also cancel each other out. The performance becomes a sound ceremony in which every step and every part contributes to a more conscious, receptive, and sensory experience.
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Hans Beckers has been active in the arts sector as a sound artist, visual artist, and musician since 2012. Over the past 12 years, he has built an extensive body of work that has been exhibited and performed at various festivals and cultural centers at home and abroad, including Bozar, Concertgebouw Brugge, De Singel, STUK, Opéra De Lille (FR), Konserthus Stavanger (NO), Centro Cultural de Belém (PT), Musica Estranha São Paulo (BR), Arte Laguna Venice (IT). He also creates work for theatre, dance, and film.