Sacred Garden
An Art film & original contemporaty music
by Kyoka Tsukamoto
A modern sacred space, an immersive experience of a feature-length art film and contemporary music magnifying the wonderfulness of nature – it offers an artistic experience of purification, a renewal of spirituality in a contemporary art form.
The film is a visual poetry for the music conceived at the gardens; it conveys the flow of consciousness which observes the mysterious life cycle that we are part of. We follow the protagonists such as bees, collecting nectar for honey without knowing that its true purpose is pollination. They guide us into the mysteries of nature, while posing us an internal question on our own existence in the world. Are we also going after the fragrance of flowers and hunting for honey, without knowing our raison d’être?
The 15 original tracks are sequenced to create an intimate spiritual walk through the “Sacred Gardens”; each song tells a story and evokes the main character’s inner journey. We are enveloped by the sounds and the atmosphere of each track’s landscape, and walk alongside the character whilst letting ourselves be carried away by the emotions elicited by the music.
“Sacred Garden” is a multimedia installation project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts; an art film with 15 pieces of contemporary music. An initial cine-concert event at le Gesù with invited musicians at the festival Nuit blanche à Montréal attracted more than 3400 visitors on March 1st 2025. The characteristics of the church, a large echo and reverb inherently “immersive”, was the point of departure for the new creation; 3D sound design using Dolby Atmos technology will create the new presentation of a modern meditative space at a gallery, a museum, and theaters.
One of the pieces in “The Garden of Sacred Songs” was composed on the special grand piano at Jardins de Métis in the Winter 2024.
Theme song demo
