Sound Stories Silent Site

Have you ever wanted to play with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, and your voice? To join storytelling and music in a collective with others? If so, we invite you to Sound Stories Silent Site, a playful and experimental workshop where music, imagination, and improvisation come together. Whether you are a neighbor, a curious beginner, or a sound lover, this is your chance to co-create in a musical ensemble, to re-imagine the possibilities of sound, and explore how your stories can come alive through collaborative creativity. No experience is needed, and everyone of all ages is welcome. Families, too!

We hope to see you at SAVVY to make sound and stories together:

Sound Stories Silent Site is a performative laboratory for improvised music and storytelling. The laboratory invites the audience to shape an improvised music ensemble and set aside conventional understandings of sound, composition, performance, and narrative. The project wonders: How does the collective ethics of a place sound, especially when inspired by difference and contradiction?

The lab seeks to disrupt colonial hierarchies and formalized identities through the sonic. Through a series of collaborative modules, the improvised ensemble engages with sound engines, synthesizers, and storytelling, weaving narratives of otherworld-making. Entering this sonic playground requires no prior experience in sound or music, and there is no age limit.

Initiated by artist and musician Anton Kats at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2017, the project has since produced vinyl releases, performances and interventions across borders and disciplines. The outcomes of the lab will be broadcast on SAVVYZAAR, online and on Berlin’s 88.4 FM and Potsdam’s 90.7 FM.

Anton Kats was born in Kherson, Ukraine, and works as an artist, musician and educator. Anton’s practice draws from the everyday, inspired by the complex narratives of Satelite Island, a neighbourhood in the south-Ukrainian port city of Kherson. Kats develops responsive and site-specific projects exploring the interdependencies of learning, migration, and the non-normative. His works have been presented at Haus of World Cultures, steirischer herbst, SAVVY Contemporary, Serpentine Galleries and Tate Modern. Kats took part in documenta14 and performed at Roskilde Festival, Fusion Festival, and Sonic Acts. Anton Kats is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme (2024–25).