This creative workshop explores sound, movement, and taste as interconnected carriers of cultural memory, drawing from Taiwanese music traditions and everyday practices surrounding bubble tea. Blending traditional instruments, DIY straw sound-making, movement, and collective improvisation, the session invites participants to experience how the body stores and reactivates cultural and sonic knowledge.
Beginning with an introduction to traditional Taiwanese double-reed instruments such as the suona and yāmudí, the workshop examines sound production through breath, vibration, and bodily coordination. Participants are encouraged to experience how posture, breathing, and movement shape sound and musical expression.
Everyday gestures—chewing tapioca pearls, sucking or biting straws, and playful interactions with bubble tea—are reframed as sources of sonic memory and creative material. Through hands-on straw instrument making and group jam sessions, these familiar actions are transformed into tools for nonverbal communication, rhythm, and collective play.
By combining sound, movement, taste, and social interaction, the workshop highlights how culture is transmitted beyond language—through signals, bodily habits, and shared sensory experiences—revealing sound as both a physical vibration and a powerful carrier of identity, memory, and emotion.
Date: 14th January 2026
Time: 11 AM to 2 PM
Venue: ABC Art Room, Water Metro Station, Fort Kochi
Who can apply:
The workshop is open to the general public.