Workshop [Novilla in Schöneweide] __ starts:2pm
Ariel William Orah:
SUARANTAU #2
Recipes, Scores, and Collective Radio Composition
SUARANTAU is a participatory sound workshop series exploring listening, place, memory, and collective composition through experimental sound and radio practices.
The title is a portmanteau from two Indonesian words “Suara/Sound” and “Rantau/Migration”. The project focuses on Socially Engaged (participatory) Sonic Art Creation, aiming to create supportive environments for experimentation while addressing social themes and fostering dialogue.
This second edition takes place at Novilla in Schöneweide, a site shaped by industrial transformation, migration, and collective cultural activity. In recent months, the space has also experienced incidents targeting books and cultural materials through vandalism and right wing hostility. These layered realities become part of the workshop’s listening and compositional process.
The workshop combines improvisation, score making, storytelling, cooking, listening exercises, and experimental radio practices. Participants will collectively explore recipes, ingredients, and sound as compositional tools for creating a temporary live radio piece and shared meal.
Recipes are approached both as personal archives and as scores: instructions that can be interpreted, changed, layered, interrupted, and collectively performed. The radio format functions as a simple collective storytelling structure where voices, sounds, conversations, atmospheres, and fragments of memory can come together into an experimental composition.
Rather than focusing on polished outcomes or technical perfection, the workshop focuses on participation, interaction, collective listening, and temporary storytelling through sound.
Participants are encouraged to bring:
- one recipe or food related memory
- one ingredient from the recipe that they would like to highlight and share collectively
- one sound source or sound making object
For example, someone might bring their grandmother’s traditional Indonesian yellow rice recipe and choose turmeric as the ingredient they would like to contribute to the collective composition and shared meal.
The sound source can be anything:
- an instrument
- a recording
- an object
- a voice
- a portable speaker
- or any sound making device
No previous experience is required.
Sign-up here: Email: info@time-emotion-studies.com
Previous iteration:
SUARANTAU Archive & Documentation
Background context:
Novilla / Bakar Buku Context
Ariel William Orah is a Berlin-based Indonesian artist, community catalyst, and cultural practitioner. Born in Bandung, Indonesia, and based in Berlin for the past 13 years, Orah focuses on diasporic socially engaged art, with research interests in social and climate injustice, as well as the trilogy of identity, memory, and scarcity. Informed by an academic background in economics, sustainability, and empathy design, Orah’s interdisciplinary approach critically engages with systemic structures while addressing the emotional and cultural dimensions of displacement and identity.
(photo by Camila de Abreu)
VENUE: **Novilla in Schöneweide– Hasselwerderstraße 22 12439 Berlin