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

Rota 2021

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

Niko de Paula Lefort
https://nikolfo.com/

Based in Berlin, he is a radio programer, facilitator and sound artist.He is a co-founder of Archipel Stations Community Radio and of the record label Portals Editions. He curates the quarterly radio show Aural Maps as part of his research on Aurality that interrelates fields such as bioacoustics, acoustemology and sounding situated knowledges. Also known as NikoLFO he also works as a musician, musical instrument developer, field recordist, radio transmission artist and audio technologist.

De Paula Lefort’s work has appeared in commissions for CTM Festival, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Berghain and the Haus der elecktronischen Künste Basel. His music and recordings have been released on labels like aufnahme+wiedergabe, Emitter Micro, Portals Editions and Famous Grapes.

Niko LFO@ROTA 2021

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

Ceola Tunstall-Behrens was born in the UK and is currently based in Rotterdam, NL.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjWQSgPWEbON7afGVBD2vw

Ceola is a sound artist, curator and producer working in the fields of experience art, research and education. In her artistic practice, she uses the medium of the voice to investigate different aspects of our existence, evoking questions on being human. By using sound to design and create experiences, Ceola’s work ranges from installations to audio guides to experimental vocal performances and radio.
As a curator, Ceola produces live public programmes that host a stage for performances and discussions amongst artistic and academic researchers. She is interested in bringing together and collaborating with artists that approach and use sound in various ways.

Curated by Elena Azzedin & Selu Herraiz
@elenaazzedin / @selu_h

Ceola Behrens@ROTA 2021

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

Concert celebrated in Centro Negra in the Rural area of Blanca (Murcia, Spain) in the context of ROTA festival.

–Ambient mic recording–

Eliane Radigue

OCCAM OCEAN - Occam IV for Viola
Performed by Julia Eckhardt  

Eliane Radigue, a pioneer of experimental music, presents *OCCAM OCEAN*, a viola concerto performed by artist Julia Eckhardt. In recent years, Radigue has composed musical pieces co-created with performers through a working method based on the development of an individual "image," which is evoked within each solo. Each musician is guided by their personal "image." Through this intuitive-instinctive process, they embark on a journey to the very essence of music, becoming both the source of the performed piece and its channel of transmission.

Eliane Radigue@Rota2021 || OCCAM OCEAN_performed by Julia ECKHARDT || Ambient mic recording

Concert celebrated in Centro Negra in the Rural area of Blanca (Murcia, Spain) in the context of ROTA festival, produced by AADK Spain.
www.aadk.es / @aadknetwork

C A R E
Selu Herraiz aka Mundåa
–Produced in Q-o2 Residencia / Brussels / july 2021–
Inspired by Eliane Radigue's work.

www.seluherraiz.es / @selu_h

A stable and deep atmosphere that is listened to with the body, from which sound events emerge. These represent the manifestations of the ego in what should be a state of total dissolution.

Based on methodologies used by Eliane Radigue, the work contains sounds induced by the feedback of microphones installed in the room, waves caused by e-bow and stone on the strings of a piano soul, manifestations of nature in the city, some purely urban sounds like the sound of traffic lights, the sound of the Earth collected with a geophone in the surroundings of the European Parliament and in the cathedral of Brussels, some symbolic sounds that represent a moment.

Selu Herraiz@ROTA2021 || Care || Excerpt

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.