Ariel William Orah is an Indonesian artist who explores themes related to identity, memory, and scarcity. He fancies the durability of homo sapiens and the fragility of the machines. He is Masters graduate from Steinbeis University Berlin with the major of Sustainability management, also master certified human centered/empathy design from School of Design Thinking Potsdam/Stanford. He works with variety of media, ranging from sonic and other multi-sensory performances, physical and interactive installations, and moving and/or still images.  Ariel William Orah co-founded an empathy driven artist collective L-KW , Bandung-based progressive rock band Vincent Vega, Berlin-based multi disciplinary art and culinary kollektiv  SOYDIVISION.BERLIN, and a non-profit cultural organization Diantara e.V . Selected works included a commissioned installation for Tanz im August Festival Berlin (2016), a film-music scoring for Deeper High- Germany (2018), CTM Festival Music Maker Hacklab 2020, two solo albums Scarcity (2017)  and WIM  (2018) under the alias ravenative.

At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Ariel William Orah developed the performance Gaung – Unvorherbestimmte Resonanz as a performer and composer together with Bilawa Respati for the festival Decolonial Frequencies in 2021; as a facilitator at the akademie der autodidakten he created Scar-City in 2023; The Melancholic Melody of the New Economy for the opening of the 2024/25 season is his debut as a director.