The Saturday concert program will take place in an unconventional stage configuration — more precisely, without a stage — in an open, forum-like space where the audience and musicians share a common field of presence. The concert will begin with the third and final performance of a new piece by Mieko Shiomi — a cult Japanese composer and living legend of conceptual music, who has collaborated with John Cage, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and other key figures of the 20th-century avant-garde responsible for shaping new directions in musical art. Her new piece, The Rite of Wind and Shadow, is an experimental sonic performance score commissioned by the Triennale. This time, the piece will be performed by Yermek Qazmūhambet — a traditional musician, kuyshi, ethnomusicologist, and lecturer at the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory — and Ziliä Qansurá, a contemporary artist and performance practitioner from Bashkortostan with a background in theatre and extensive experience on the international contemporary stage. Another premiere within the Triennale is a special preview of a collaborative performance by experimental musician Airat Khaziev (Şüräle) and two Indonesian artists: extreme vocalist Karina Utomo and Javanese gamelan researcher Bilawa Ade Respati. The trio is working on a conceptual sonic piece dedicated to their shared notion of ancestral spirits — aruakhs. The full version of the work will be presented later this year in Berlin as part of a special program of CTM Festival — one of the world’s key platforms for electronic and experimental music. This preview offers a rare opportunity to observe the work in progress in real time. The fourth episode of the concert program will conclude with an unusual collective performance, The Whispering Choir — the result of a collaboration between Bint Mbareh and the research platform Impossible Territories. The performance by Bilawa Ade Respati is supported by the Goethe-Institut Kazakhstan.