Selected Works and Projects

2024

Shadow Play (Upcoming)
Planned shadow puppet performance telling the stories of birth and death, Stockholm.

Dedolanan (upcoming)
New composition for Gamelan and two performers, with the composer and musician Mo’ong Pribadi, Berlin.

Distant Memories of the Void
Gamelan music automaton and visual installation at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen, with Emese Csornai (visual concept) and Adrian Latupeirissa (technologist), Berlin.

TIRAI
A web visual novel and sound installation telling stories from the time of Japanese occupation in Indonesia. Part of the Web Sound Art Festival 2024, Online.

2023

Shadows/Echoes
A residency project exploring mode of story telling, taking inspiration from the tradition of Wayang shadow puppet and Swedish puppet theater, Stockholm.

Latent Sonorities
Sample pack recording, composition of new music, and performances using Javanese Gamelan instrument. With L_KW and Morphine Records, Berlin.

Laut Jerebu
Conversation and performance closing the end of residency time of the dancer jee chan on language, constructed identity, and the idea of a Nusantara, with Jelena Golubović, at the Flutgraben Performances, Berlin.

Of Longing and Fear
A study for a web sound art installation telling fictitious journals from the time of Japanese occupation time in Indonesia. Realized as part of the workshop at the Browser Sound Festival, Stuttgart & Online.

Indigo and Sunshine Yellow
Performative reading and music performance curated by Gudrun Ingratubun and Nelden Djakababa Gericke, telling the story of Indigo plants and the history of colonialism.

Traces of Degas
Sound to the video installation and dance workshop by the dancer/choreographer Ruben Reniers and videographer Marco Baass at Haus Bastian, Berlin.

2022

AWAL / Beginning
Installative dance performance with live music about starting over and continuing on. With rubarb dance & art. Premiere December 2023 at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Berlin.

Dream Sequence
Research on translating dream sequence in film to the performing art. By and with Silvia Bennett, Yvonne Sembene, Emese Csornai. Public showing of the work-in-progress in November 2022, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin.

Woman at the End of Time (work in progress)
Stipend project on cross implementation of compositional technique in algorithmic music and Javanese Karawitan to create a new work based on the novel “Pertempuran Lain Dropadi” by the author Triyanto Triwikromo. Stipend by Musikfonds.

Keroncong Spektra
Development grant project in developing music implementing compositional technique of the Keroncong music and minimalism. With Bintang Manira Manik. Grant by Amarte Fonds.

Tana Sadji
Durational performance with participants on the idea of an imagined cultures and its rituals. With Nindya Nareswari, Rizki Resa Utama, Jan Thedja, and Ariel Orah. Intervention on the exhibition Nation, Narration, Narcosis. Performed in May 2022 at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

Kiamat
Music performance based on the work of the duo Senyawa, with LKW, Soydivision Ensemble, Rabih Beaini (Morphine Records). Performed in April 2022 at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Berlin.

Aryati
Music theater on the life of Aryati, a woman from the Tugu village, which is intertwined with the development of the Keroncong music and Indonesian history. With Soydivision Ensemble. Performed in March 2022 at the Uferstudios Berlin.

2021

T_AKUT
A stipend project to create new work with the theme of fear as a shared experience during the Japanese military occupational time in Indonesia. With Soydivision Ensemble. Stipend by Musikfonds.

Gaung: Unpredictable Resonance
Concert lecture on the story of Gamelan from its mythical origin, Indonesian modernism and beyond. With Ariel Orah. Premiered in October 2022 at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin.

Requiem Mangongkal Holi
Musical dance performance with moving images on death rituals in Indonesia and in Europe. With rubarb dance & art. Premiered in September 2021 at Dock11, Berlin.

La Gran Drama-Tisch
A one day ritual performance with Soydivision Collective, La Love’s Kitchen, and Nowhere Kitchen. Performed at Sari-Sari Art Space and Lichtenraderstr. area, Berlin.

2020

Recalibration
Culinary, dance, and music performance with Soydivision Collective, Nowhere Kitchen, and un.thai.tled. Performed at StudioDB, Berlin.

Nur-hin
Music theater on the theme of leaving a home country and finding new identity in another country. With Soydivision Ensemble. Performed at ACUD Theater & Motif Wein, Berlin.