ROTA festival
produced by AADK Spain & Aldarrax Editions
Curated by Selu Herraiz /@selu_h
www.aadk.es / @aldarrax_ed /

Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organizer in the field of the sonic arts and at the intersection of composed and improvised music. She is a founding member and artistic co-director of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels.
As a performer of composed and improvised music she has collaborated extensively with composer Éliane Radigue, next to other artists such as Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, between others, several of them being represented on recordings.
She has been teaching and lecturing at Lemmens Institut (Leuven), Transmedia (LUCA Brussel) and La Cambre (Brussels). She is author of The Second Sound, conversation on gender and music (umland), Grounds for Possible Music (Errant Bodies), The Middle Matter – sound as interstice, and Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces/Espaces intermédiaires.

https://soundcloud.com/julia_eckhardt

Julia Eckhardt@ROTA 2021 || ambient-mic

Aldarrax is an experimental music and sound art label based in Blanca, a small oasis in the arid regions of Murcia, in southern Spain. The main objective of the label is to connect people and territories through sound, to build community and to make space for experimental sound practices. Half-made music, new collaborations and unorthodox recording techniques are at the core of the label’s editorial line. 

Occasionally, artists are invited to create specific works, proposing collective improvisation sessions to generate spontaneous music. Field recording, soundscape composition and DIY instruments which incorporate local materials are encouraged. We resonate with peripheral, dissident and strange music. Aldarrax holds music as a ritual and animistic tool that strengthens bonds and works on bodies to create altered states of consciousness in autonomous zones. We are interested in repetitiveness, broken rhythms, trance-inducing sounds and durational practices that search for these other realms beyond the human.