https://salvadorbreed.com Salvador Breed Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:48:10 +0000 https://salvadorbreed.com en https://salvadorbreed.com/Slideshow Sun, 05 Feb 2017 19:58:51 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/Slideshow Creation Music Sound DesignArt and Technology https://salvadorbreed.com/AFTERLIFE Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:48:10 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/AFTERLIFE AFTERLIFEComposition for dance performance Afterlife takes place in a vast, empty swimming pool suspended outside of time; the air is dense, and steam dissolves any physical certainty. The liminal space feels serene yet unstable and enigmatic, as if reality is only a lingering impression. Various individuals from different timelines enter this dimension, each carrying traces of past roles, duties, emotions; their presences overlapping and interrupting one another, making the pool vibrant with constantly changing scenarios. As the group moves through this hollow dimension, identities blur and memories break into scattered sensations and echoes. New connections and forms begin to emerge, as if the pool strips away what once covered them, revealing something more essential beneath, or distorting every atom and story built across their life-chapters. Quote by Sophie Lossing @ Skånska Dagbladet: “And then there is the sound—simply magical. The music and sound effects enhance the atmosphere of the scenes in a brilliant way. A manic clock ticks the time away, while one of the dancers moves with ever-increasing frenzy. Suddenly: boom—an explosion that you feel throughout your entire body. You genuinely jolt in your seat, and your heart rate quickens. More such effects follow, and for a brief moment, it feels as though you yourself are part of what is unfolding.“ Credits: Afterlife by Heidi Vierthaler Choreography: Heidi Vierthaler in collaboration with the dancers Music and sound design: Salvador BreedSet and lighting design: Tom VisserCostume design: Min Li Dramaturg / Choreography assistant: Luca CacittiProduced by Skånes Dansteater  Photos by Florian Hetz & Tom Visser Press & Links:Skanes Dansteater - Afterlive Dagens Nyeheter - Afterlive review (swedish) Skånska Dagblatet - Afterlive review (swedish) Sydsvenskan - Afterlive review (swedish)Sventska Dagblatet - Afterlive review (swedish) https://salvadorbreed.com/Perrier-Jouet-x-IvH Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:43:27 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/Perrier-Jouet-x-IvH Perrier-Jouët x Iris van HerpenComposition for campaign in collaboration with Helena Basilova For Perrier-Jouët, Iris van Herpen created a work of art made from recycled golden metal and silk draped around a Jeroboam of Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque 1988, just like a Haute Couture dress.   Her conversations with Cellar Master Séverine Frerson inspired her approach, which illustrates how the flavours of champagne develop over time, in a play of textures that sweep around the bottle neck before rising into thin air.   Inspired by cymatic motifs, this artwork is reminiscent of Loïe Fuller, a dancer and icon of the Belle Epoque period. More info: Website Perrier-Joët https://salvadorbreed.com/Iris-van-Herpen-Sculpting-the-Senses Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:43:46 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/Iris-van-Herpen-Sculpting-the-Senses Iris van Herpen - Sculpting the SensesImmersive soundtrack for exhibition 11th of May 2026 to 6th of December 2026 @ Brooklyn Museum, New York Sculping the senses pays tribute to Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, now recognized as one of the most avant-garde figures of her generation. Organized as an immersive and sensory exploration into the designer’s universe, this retrospective merging fashion, contemporary art, design and science, revolves around eight themes that identify the very essence of van Herpen’s body of work. At the heart of this immersive journey lies an extraordinary collaboration with sound artist Salvador Breed, whose rich sonic tapestry adds a new dimension to the retrospective. Breed's sonic reverie draws inspiration from the fusion of technology, nature, and human creativity that defines Iris van Herpen's aesthetic. The result is an audio landscape that mirrors the ethereal and otherworldly qualities inherent in van Herpen's fashion.The sonic contribution not only enhances the exhibition but also serves as an independent work of art, echoing the boundary-pushing spirit of Iris van Herpen herself. Credits:  Composition and Spatial mix by Salvador Breed ‘Cosmic Bloom’ spatial sound tech by 4DSOUND‘Cosmic Bloom’ spatial mix  with Casmir Geelhoed ‘Cosmic Bloom’ contributions by: Machinedrum, Gwyneth Wentink, Maarten Vos, Thijs de Vlieger, Nick Verstand, Casimir Geelhoed, Yarck. Past showing: Museé des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France (2023/2024) Galery of Modern Art (GOMA),Brisbane,Australia(2024) Artscience Museum, Singapore (2025) Kunsthal Rotterdam (2025, 2026) More info: Website Iris van Herpen  https://salvadorbreed.com/ICK-L-A-V-A Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:45:27 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/ICK-L-A-V-A ICK - L.A.V.A.Composition and Sound Design for dance performance L.A.V.A. is an intensely physical and sonic journey through a landscape of tension, friction and underground currents. Two leading voices in European dance, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten from Amsterdam and Roberto Zappalà from Catania, Sicily, bring their choreographic worlds together in an international co-production of contrasts and force. Not a double bill, not a fusion, but a confrontation — a field of tension where difference sparks new movement. The dance moves like lava: layered and unpredictable. Bodies collide, pulse, harden and break open again. The music is an autonomous force: assertive and independent. A sonic field of rhythmic tension and seismic vibration that challenges, supports and counteracts the choreography. L.A.V.A. shows how intensity emerges from difference. Not through harmony, but through friction. Not through distance, but through proximity. The audience finds itself at the heart of this eruption of movement and sound. L.A.V.A. was premiered on Friday, July 3 2026 at Julidans in Meervaart, Amsterdam Press & Links: ICK - L.A.V.A. https://salvadorbreed.com/Chanel-SS-2025 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:59:47 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/Chanel-SS-2025 Chanel Haute CoutureSpatial Sound Design with 4DSOUND 28th of Januari 2025 @ Grand Palais, Paris. For the Spring-Summer 2025 Haute Couture collection, Music Supervisor Michel Gaubert envisioned a collaboration that would transform the Grand Palais into a grand, immersive spatial sound stage. With an original composition by Gustave Rudman, the music flowed through the venue, enveloping the audience as the models, poised and graceful, unveiled the latest Haute Couture creations. Credits:  Music Supervision by Michel Gaubert Music Composition by Gustave Rudman Spatial Sound Design by Salvador Breed Custom Software by 4DSOUND - Poul Holleman https://salvadorbreed.com/Driftwood Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:54:04 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/Driftwood Drift WoodMusic composition and spatial sound design for modern dance performance Premiered on 01-12-2025 at Paris Opera Garnier‘Drift Wood’ is a choreography by Imre & Marne van Opstal A musical collaboration with Amos Ben Tal. ‘Drift Wood’ is a reflection on the relationship between our essential human nature and the layers of conditioning that shape who we become.Taking its inspiration from the romanticism of nature and the collective memory of community, the piece unfolds through the surreal lens of a diorama, created yet real and alive. Like pieces of driftwood carried by unseen currents, we are each marked by time, memory, and circumstance.Through movement, sound and image, Drift Wood peels back the layers, revealing fragments of instinct and resistance but also of connection and contradiction. What emerges is a play between the raw and the constructed, the private and the prescribed, the solitude we carry and the bonds we cannot escape.What remains when we strip everything away?What parts of us are shaped by the tide—and what parts are still our own? Credits Choreography by Imre & Marne van Opstal Music by Amos Ben-Tal & Salvador Breed Set & Lightning Design by Tom Visser Costume Design by ALAINPAUL Photos by Tom Visser Press & Links:Opera de Paris website Imre & Marne website https://salvadorbreed.com/ARCA-MUTANT-DESTRUDO Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:09:53 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/ARCA-MUTANT-DESTRUDO ARCA - MUTANT;DESTRUDOLive spatial Sound Design & Custom software World premiere: October 11-15, 2023 @ Park Avenue Armony, New York Directed by Arca, Mutant;Destrudo congregates her close friends and collaborators around a shared vision of creating space to allow for deconstruction of preconceptions. This ambitious new project is steeped in electronic music sound design to induce various states of embodied physicality and synthesize new ways to mediate both the ego and identity at large. The resulting Armory commission continues her ongoing practice of creating instances which merge all forms of creative practice, reexamining the ritual of the concert as a moment of heightened connection between those present. Using 4DSOUND technology, ARCA’s music, voice and live instruments where spatially mixed and played during the shows. Arca (the pseudonym of shape-shifting artist, singer, DJ, performer, and composer Alejandra Ghersi) has made her indelible mark by developing a transcendent, transgressive body of work that has collapsed long-standing barriers between artist and art, human and technology, avant-garde and pop, and many disciplines from music to visual art to fashion and beyond.  Tickets & Info:ARCA @ Park Avenue Armory  www.arca1000000.com https://salvadorbreed.com/The-Bone-Algorithm Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:45:22 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/The-Bone-Algorithm The Bone AlgorithmInstallation concept and composition  for dance performance The space moves the dancers, their movement generates sound, the sound redesigns the space.... The result is a delicate interplay of cause and effect, but who is the instrument and who is the player? The Bone Algorithm is an interdisciplinary performance with a kinetic installation that produces music through the movement of the dancers.  The performance poses the question: Could the inner workings of Artificial Intelligence be reversed in Organic Intelligence? Amos Ben-Tal, Gosse de Kort and Salvador Breed once again join forces and explore the theme of the "devolution" of technology. The performance imagines a possible future where a tipping point is reached and life starts to imitate technology. What kind of beings would we become? The Bone Algorithm is intriguing not only for the experienced dance lover, but also for fans of visual art and new music. Interweaving powerful dance, sound and image, the three artists create a total experience for the audience. Credits Concept: Amos Ben-Tal, Gosse de Kort, Salvador Breed Choreography: Amos Ben-Tal Spatial dramaturgy: Gosse de Kort Sound and Composition: Salvador Breed Dance: Alex Blondeau, Luca Cacitti, Xanthe van Opstal Light design: Xavier van Wersch Artistic advice: Yvan Dubreuil Installation Design and development: Gosse de Kort Acoustic research and implementation: Xavier van Wersch Electronics: Bas Bossinade Metal construction:Rijk Broertjes Technical assistant: Arisz van Wersch _ Quotes: "“But listen carefully, the bodies reveal secrets through the bare straight lines. You hear much more than what you hear.” – Theaterkant “It is an ongoing, exciting interaction: the dancer ‘plays with’ the installation and influences the shape and volume of the space.” – NRC “The dance is sometimes virtuosic and intense, and sometimes still and subtle. The beautiful tension that was created moved me.”– Audience member Press & Links:Offprojects website https://salvadorbreed.com/New-European-Ensemble Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:24:15 +0000 Salvador Breed https://salvadorbreed.com/New-European-Ensemble New European Ensemble x Nick Verstand  Composition for sextet, electronics and light  Music by Steve Reich and Salvador Breed  ”In this mix of minimal music, lighting design, electronics and live music, everything is in balance.“  - Volkskrant NEuE is an international collective of musicians with a shared passion for sharing the stories of new music. The ensemble performs the Double Sextet by the minimalist Steve Reich and new work by composer and sound designer Salvador Breed, in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand  enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography. More info: Website New European Ensemble  Website Nick Verstand