CTM X Korkut II Triennale: Harmattan

09th May 2026 09th May 2026 19:00 20:30

Bilawa Ade Respati, Karina Utomo & Şüräle »The Dream Has Still Not Whispered«

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Mieko Shiomi »Rite of Wind and Shadow«

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The Whispering Choir

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Tselinny Center of Contemporary CultureTickets 10,000 KZT

The II Korkut Sonic Arts Triennale and the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture in Almaty have teamed up with Berlin’s CTM Festival to present several events under the theme of Resynthesising the Traditional.

Photo: Saida Suleimenova

The work-in-progress performance »the Dream Has Still Not Whispered« is a new commission by experimental gamelan composer and performer Bilawa Ade Respati, extreme vocalist Karina Utomo, and guitarist and producer Şüräle. With a title that refers to a Javanese tradition in which spiritual knowledge is often transmitted through whispering, the work explores the concept of arwah/äruax, an ancestral spirit that appears in both Turkic and Indonesian cultures. This work continues an impulse from the CTM Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab which took place at the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture in October 2025, and will travel to Berlin for a special showing in September still tba.

The evening also features performances by the Whispering Choir, as well as the work »Rite of Wind and Shadow« by Mieko Shiomi, performed by Yermek Qazmūhambet and Ziliä Qansurá.

»The Dream Has Still Not Whispered« is commissioned by the Korkut II Triennale and CTM Festival. Bilawa Ade Respati's participation is kindly supported by Goethe-Institut Kazakhstan.