Seismic

sound into matter / a concert unframed

Seismic reimagines the concert as a shifting terrain, where sound is no longer a medium but a force. Seven performers enter the field like fault lines, carving what Maria W Horn - who creates a new work for and with Ictus - calls aural monoliths.

Slowness here is not calm: it is pressure, ritual, fracture. Sound thickens into matter, bodies become percussion, light acts as tectonics. Disciplines dissolve. Movement, sound, and visual arts collapse into each other, forming a volatile landscape of constant mutation.

The audience is not placed before but inside this instability, caught in an ecosystem where perception slips between presence and erasure, order and rupture. Seismic is not simply performed or heard. It is inhabited: a living geology of sound, light, and bodies, forever on the verge of collapse.

About the music

Interview w/ Sue Somers

Longread

Concept, direction, light & sceno: Aïda Gabriëls

Choreographic advice: Matteo Sedda

Created with & performed by Maria W Horn, Aisha Orazbayeva, Victor Guaita, Geert De Bièvre, Nabou Claerhout, Ruben Orio & Matteo Sedda

Dramaturgy: Tom Pauwels

Light: Astrid Vansteenkiste

Scenography: Tanja Mala Ngombe, Astrid Vansteenkiste & Noir Métal (Pans, 2022, Structure modulable en acier. Œuvre produite dans le cadre de l’exposition présentée à La Verrière par la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.)

Scenographic advice: Milan Henderickx

Styling: Fenia Proost

Production management: Ruth Sarens

Production: B-Classic, Ictus & Oester

Co-production: Botanique (Brussels), Concertgebouw (Bruges) & Perpodium

Commissioned by Botanique (Brussels).

Seismic is created with the support of the Flemish Community, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Needcompany.