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 /

Marta De Pascalis is an Italian musician and sound designer based in Berlin. She has presented her work at various festivals and venues such as Berlin Atonal, Museo Reina Sofía, Biennale di Venezia, Berghain, Volksbühne, Café Oto, and Mutek Festival. Her discography includes the self-released Quitratue (2014), Anzar (2016) on The Tapeworm, and Her Core (2018) on The Wormhole. In 2020, she released Sonus Ruinae under Morphine Records.

Marta de Pascalis@ROTA 2021

ROTA festival, produced by AADK Spain.
www.aadk.es / @aadknetwork

Amas- como las tradicionales buceadoras japonesas-son mujeres valientes que se sumergen en las oscuras profundidades del inconsciente para llevarnos Perlas de Sabiduría. Un dúo de electrónica-noise y performance, con voces declamadas y habladas, formado por figuras clave de la escena wunderground barcelonesa: Ivana Ray Singh & María Gatasanta, miembros de colectivos / centros de arte contemporáneo neurálgicos descentralizados como el Konvent (Cal Rosal) o Trama34 (Hospitalet) y la red internacional de creación disidente Sympoietic Sound Network dónde se celebra la experimentación con el ruido y la interdisciplinariedad.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2RW02SnMcS7itvhOEYdnlK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KOU3Ye2v2s

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

AMAS@ROTA 2021

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

ROTA festival, produced by AADK Spain.
www.aadk.es / @aadknetwork

Jorge Barco combina la faceta de artista con la Museología; desde hace varios años está vinculado al l Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, espacio en el cual ha ha liderado varios programas en torno a la cultura digital, los laboratorios experimentales y el arte sonoro en la última década, igualmente colabora con varios colectivos independientes y de Medellín y Suramérica en torno en torno a las artes electrónicas. https://jorgebarco.wixsite.com/maquinasmestizas

Artista radicado en Medellín (Colombia) que investiga desde una perspectiva sonora sobre la arqueología de los medios, el diseño especulativo y los materiales geológicos. Combina medios como la electrónica análoga, intervención de tecnologías low tech y objetos encontrados en instalaciones, además de la grabación de campo y el performance sonoro.

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

Jorge Barco@ROTA 2021 || Geomancias

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

RUDA@ROTA 2021 || Outro:live impro ||Excerpt

Impro Session at Funk Hause / 2023 / Niko de Paula, Selu Herraiz, Pia Achternkamp

Falsos Profetas _ Third Sun

Impro Session at Funk Hause / 2023 / Niko de Paula, Selu Herraiz, Pia Achternkamp and Abraham Hurtado

Falsos Profetas _ InWhichWeBeginWhatWeAreHereToDo

"Nospiedumi/Imprints" DIY konstrukcijai, marimbai un elektronikai (2025)

Pirmatskaņots JVLMA Mūsdienu mūzikas festivālā "deciBels" 2025. gada 3. aprīlī Rīgas cirka arēnā.

Atskaņotāji:
Sonja Misiņa, Toms Kozlovs, Arnis Stepiņš

Īpašs paldies Annai Fišerei, Guntaram Freibergam un Dimitrim Maronidim.

Video: https://youtu.be/sYyXnHy9myk 
Foto: Jānis Porietis

Nospiedumi/Imprints (2025)

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.

New tracks tagged #diy instruments