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LEFTOVER KLANGWERK

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ABOUT

Leftover Klangwerk is a socially engaged and sonic art creation activity in the form of participatory workshop and collective improvisation performance. The title inspired from the English word “Leftover” refers to waste, and German word “Klangwerk” which means “sound creation”. Inspired by circular design/upcycling methodology, both workshop and performance will introduce and invite the community to channel a form of freedom in the form of sound through the sound-making object, without the limitations of conventional music.

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06.07.2020

At Sari Sari Space

Facilitated by Ariel Orah and Maximimilian Kupi


The first edition of Leftover Klangwerk focuses on digital (sonic) waste that most music producers, theater and film music composers, sound designer, sound artists generate through their sound composition process. In today's music  production process, we might (or for sure) end up with gigabytes of sonic waste. Let's say from 10GB sketches that we made for a theater music composition project, maybe only 20% of the sketches end up in the final work. The leftover of 80% of sonic trash usually just rots on our external hard drives or even gets erased forever to free storage space. Inspired by circular design/upcycling methodology, L_KW and soydivision invited producers to experience a new format of coming together in sari sari space, and starting to exchange and flirt with each other’s sonic trash. Limited to 120 minutes, the participants experienced a co-creation workshop and end up with one or more performance(s) as the final output of the evening – indeed using the sonic waste that has been brought to the table from each participant.

06.07.2020

At Uferstudios and PANKE Culture Berlin Wedding

Facilitated by Ariel Orah and Johanes “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi

Part of Hack The Panke Festival by Art Laboratory Berlin 2022

Supported by Draussen Stadt Program Berlin


The second edition of Leftover Klangwerk focuses on waste that has been generated by specific neighborhoods in the city, collect them, and create various self-made instruments out of it. The workshop was divided into three major parts. In the first part, participants collected different kinds of waste objects from specific neighborhoods (based on the understanding of the characteristic and also social political history of that specific neighborhood). The second part was the building process of those waste materials into several self-made instruments. The third was the presentation of the instruments, followed up by an improvisation music performance (using those self-made instrument).

Click here for audio recording of the final performance

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ABOUT THE ARTIST(S)

Johanes “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi

Bangkok-born and Java-raised, Johanes “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi is an experimental music composer and instrument builder. His main area of study is music Nusantara, or the music of Indonesia.Mo’ong started his studies in  Western classical music with a major in double bass, but soon moved back to his roots to explore the wisdom of Javanese folklore, He continued his Masters studies in the arts at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, receiving a graduate degree in music composition supervised by composer Rahayu Supanggah. He was selected as a young emerging composer on IRC+ (International Rostrum of Composer) in 2015. Mo’ong has been involved with a variety of national and international projects in many different genres of music, and with multidisciplinary projects within modern dance, modern theater, contemporary puppet theater, installation art, and performance art. In 2015 he initiated the Limbah Berbunyi project, where he created and composed musical instruments from found objects or waste. Another recent work, Raja Kirik, is a Duo Experimental with musician/composer Yennu Ariendra about the war of narratives during the Dutch occupation in Indonesia. He has also worked as a sound designer and written music for several independent films.

Ariel William Orah (a.k.a ravenative)

Ariel William Orah is a sound artist, performer and curator. He was born in Bandung, Indonesia and has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany for the past 10 years. His work and research interests include socially engaged art creation, social+climate injustice, as well as identity, memory, and scarcity. As part of his artistic practice, Orah works with various sound media, techniques and formats such as sound art, sound installation, sound performance, sound workshop, sound setting and sound composition for film and theater. Since 2008, Orah has presented his work in Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Australia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.  Orah did not train or graduate from an art school, but his past and current art practice is strongly influenced by his studies and experiences as an Indonesian diaspora and migrant in Germany. A graduate of Steinbeis University Berlin with a focus on sustainability management, he also holds degrees in human-centered, empathic and experiential design from the School of Design Thinking Potsdam/Stanford and KAOSPILOT Århus. He is co-founder of the empathy-driven sound artist collective L-KW, the Berlin-based Indonesian contemporary art collective SOYDIVISION.BERLIN, and the non-profit arts and culture organization Diantara e.V.Selected sound works include an experimental music theater "ARYATI" (2022), sound performance and diorama "TANA SADJI" (work in progress for Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, as part of the exhibition "Nation, Narrative, Narcosis, 2022), lecture performance on decolonizing sounds GAUNG - UNVORHERBESTIMMTE RESONANZ for Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin (2021), a theater music composition "Götzendämmerung. Post-Funk-Tische Ergüsse zum Zeitgeschehen" for Zimmertheater Tübingen (2019) and a sound and image installation commissioned for Tanz im August Festival Berlin (2016).  He has released numerous solo albums under the pseudonym ravenative and is actively involved in various music projects such as grau&, soydivision ensemble, böseblick ensemble and OKNUM. In addition to his work as an artist, he is also active as a curator, especially in the field of sound. His recent curatorial activities include soy&synth (experimental music and food showcase, 2018-present), NNN Fair 2021 (diaspora art festival, Rotterdam, 2021), KAUM Performance & Film Festival (Berlin, 2021) and CTM Festival Hacklab (Berlin, 2022).