Sunday Morning Concert: Gwen Sainte-Rose

Gwen Sainte-Rose is a Brussels-based musician, composer, and sound artist who approaches sound as a living, spatial experience. Their creations unfold as moving sound sculptures in which audience and performer are immersed together.Through variations in materials, shapes, densities, and spaces, Sainte-Rose explores the boundaries between movement and silence, between the production of sound and its perception. Careful and sensitive listening always serves as the starting point. To do so, they work with a wide range of media, including cello, voice, objects, field recordings, sound and visual installations, and radio.Gwen Sainte-Rose’s music feels like a journey through landscapes of sound and matter: organic, sensory, and deeply connected to its environment. Their work invites audiences to slow down, reconnect, and experience a different way of being present in the world. An artistic as well as a political gesture.In 2025, the album Collines / Racines was released on the Belgian label By The Bluest Of Seas. The two compositions featured on the record are immersive soundscapes for cello and loop station, inspired by the hills of the Gaume region and the Sonian Forest. The music was released in a distinctive wooden box set, accompanied by photographic work and carefully collected natural objects.Today, Gwen Sainte-Rose presents Floe and Scoria, a new live performance for cello, loop station, field recordings, and video. Building on the world of Collines / Racines, this work explores the elements of fire and water through an intensely sensory experience in which image and sound merge seamlessly.