Studio Sun City
Future Audio Design
We design the future.
Imagination is our strength. Sound is our language.
Studio Sun City designs immersive audio experiences in which we appeal to the listener’s imagination to shape the City of the Future.
We offer hope, solace, and perspective on a better future. Post-fossil, inclusive, and sustainable are the core values of our utopian world. In collaboration with our audience, we create inspiring prospects.
In his book The Great Derangement, writer Amitav Ghosh dubbed the climate crisis a ‘crisis of the imagination’. Facts and figures will not bring change. It’s time for new stories. We will have to mobilise our collective imagination.
In our piece, you experience the city of the future. Using sound, we aim to create an embodied experience. We take elements from theater, conceptual and visual arts, and create audio plays, podcasts, music, performances and art installations.
Important works include Koffiedik, a podcast series in which the Netherlands of 2104 is given shape through the stories of six talented young writers, and City of Sound and Silence, a binaural audio tour through the post-fossil city of the future.
Studio Sun City works for festivals, municipalities, non profit organisations and (semi)governmental organisations. Additionally, we are always on the lookout for exciting collaborations with other artists, scientists, and policy makers. For Studio Sun City, collaboration is part of the product; our method is transdisciplinary. Our work is realised within the public domain, in order to create the biggest possible impact on the level of policy.
Studio Sun City consists of Jeek ten Velden, Frank van Kasteren, and Ivo Schot.
The Team
Jeek ten VeldenIvo SchotFrank van Kasteren
Ivo Schot studied music, bass guitar, and songwriting at the Rockacademie in Tilburg and the Popakademie in Mannheim. Since his graduation in 2012, he has been a part of a great variety of projects in the areas of theater, education, pop music, and transdisciplinary art. Among other things, he is a cofounder of Studio Sun City, Nunki, Ural Music Camp, SUiT, and his solo project Fortheloveofbass.
Currently, he plays bass for, and produces, Danish singer-songwriter Subterranean Street Society. Along with playing in pop groups and composing for others, he focuses on socially engaged work such as the Ural Music Camp. This is an exchange program, recurring yearly, for pop musicians from Europe and Russia, taking place in Ekaterinaburg.
Ivo is involved in this program as an organiser, speaker, and band coach.
Within Sun City, Ivo wants to explore how, using his own artform, music, he can contribute to the city of the future, and its conceptualisation.
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Frank van Kasteren is a composer, producer, and multi-instumentalist. He graduated from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2011. Since his graduation, he has been part of various pop music and theater projects. His current bands are Kafka, with Dafne Holtland, Altstad, with Marcel Osterop, and Elijah, his solo project. In 2020 he released a series of Dutch-language EPs, under the name De Elias EPs. He tours theaters with Laura van Dolron and Maarten Heijmans Zingt Ramses Shaffy. Additionally, he composes and produces for third parties.
In the past, he’s been a member of the bands Sir James, Wooden Saints, Orlando (now Luwten), as well as cofounding the the Label Silence du Monde. From 2011-2017 he was a composer and musician with theater companies Circus Treurdier and De Orde van de Dag.
Within Sun City, Frank wants to contribute to the conceptualization of the city of the future through music and theater.
