Gentle, meditative sonic journey
Silent Sounds invites you to a journey to perceive the world in a dissolved manner: thoughts, dreams, sounds, sensations, consciousness, silence, calm, trance become one unified reality without boundaries or frontiers. Without aspiring to create allure, contrasts, or trendy effects, this music aims to draw its listeners into its soft, infinite waves, gently rocking them into a state of relaxation and meditation. The ancient melodies of ethnic songs from various cultures, the resonant tones of bells, drums, and sansula, the delicate heights of the violin, and the soothing repetition of loopers combine to form a gentle, profound, and sincere sanctuary for the body, mind, and soul.
Joris van Beek – violin, mandolin, looper
Maria Keck – voice, bells, sansula, drums, looper
MARIA KECK
Dancer, singer, musician and instructor/facilitator. Apart from developing several flamenco and world music projects and touring around the world with them as a performer (De Cobre, Ethnómada, Ex Auro, Teo y la Mar), she has been working as a dance therapist with women circles since 2017 in Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, as a music therapist running monthly groups and individual sound baths in the Lisztov Inštitut Ljubljana since 2018 and as an art therapy instructor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana since 2022. Her last album released in 2023, called Sansula Songs, is her first musical work with a meditational approach focusing on her voice and a unique melodical-percussive instrument, the sansula.
JORIS VAN BEEK
A passionate violinist and double bassist. During his exchange with the Istanbul Technical University, he delved into Eastern composition techniques and playing the four-string kemence. He co-founded the Amsterdam-based OT AZOJ and was a longtime member of the Klezmer theater band Di Gojim, leading to numerous tours and album recordings. Ever since he was young, Joris has been fascinated by the unconscious mind and meditation. Exploring various meditation practices, including Vipassana. Delved into NLP, and become a hypnosis practitioner, establishing a hypnosis practice assisting people in inner healing. Believing in music’s transformative power to lead individuals to inner silence, he initiates projects integrating music and mindfulness.