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OKKRE

Uge Pañeda aka Okkre is an electronic music composer and sound designer. In her music converge techno, dark and ambient but also references to opera and contemporary classical music. She has been working in the last years putting music to performances and scenic proposals.

She has been present three times at the She Makes Noise festival. In 2015 as part of the music duo LCC presenting the album D/evolution, Mego, 2014. In 2018 with the Madrid premiere of Arkhé, her solo debut after the breakup of LCC and in 2020 at the pandemic edition of the festival with a b2b DJ set with Tutu.

She’s musician and psychologist, two professional facets that have made of her link with sound a constant exploration through human perception. How this stimulus is capable of altering our moods and consciousness, is one of the main ones, with minimal scenic resources, the artist invites viewers to enjoy a deep listening, in an exercise of austerity with respect to the visual information to which we are exposed on a daily basis.

Her work has been presented in international festivals like L.E.V Gijón. Sónar Barcelona. Atonal Berlin. MUTEK México and She Makes Noise festival.

PROJECTS

Noisea - Live. Okkre presents Noisea in a live set, a work inspired by the therapeutic impact that the noise frequencies generated by urban beaches have on the inhabitants of these cities. A piece articulated through field recordings, multiple layers of noise and sound modulations that will immerse the audience in those seas.

Arkhé - Live. Okkre presents Arkhé a very special proposal, with a deep classical inspiration, where the artist combines two of her passions, classical music and opera, with the theories of the philosopher Heraclitus and field recordings made in an old abandoned mine in her homeland, Asturias, then digitally processed. The final result is immersive and polyhedral, coexisting all these references until reaching a dark and ambient techno that will take us to an unforgettable journey.

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Photos by Elena de la Puente and Sara Navarro

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LILA TIRANDO A VIOLETA

Lila Tirando a Violeta is a music producer from Uruguay, she has garnered a reputation for her enigmatic and versatile sonic repertoire. Newly signed to London’s notable label Hyperdub. Her influences range from experimental avant-garde music to hard drum percussions all while taking cues from field recordings and Latin American melodies.

In 2020, Lila released her album 'Limerencia' through Mexico City’s label NAAFI, receiving widespread acclaim. The album was listed as one of the best releases of the year by the esteemed platform Bandcamp. Building upon this, Lila followed up with her 2022 full length album 'Desire Path', which further solidified her status as a preeminent figure in the electronic music landscape. The album earned accolades from renowned publications such as Pitchfork, DJ Mag and The New York Times. In 2023, she collaborated with Sin Maldita for her debut release on London’s notable Hyperdub Records -ACCELA- Where they explored surreal, dreamlike soundscapes and digital realities in a rhythmic yet experimental work.

In addition to her prolific solo endeavors, Lila Tirando a Violeta dedicates time to collaborations with top-tier talents in the industry. Notable collaborations include working with UK’s Loraine James and Ecuadorian producer Nicola Cruz. Furthermore, Lila has showcased her skills through captivating mixes for distinguished platforms such as FACT, NTS, and KEXP radios, as well as delivering AV live sets for renowned events like Mutek, Primavera Sound, Boiler Room, She Makes Noise and Unsound festival.

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ADELAIDA

Adelaida lives and works in the full moon. A mermaid in winter, a witch in summer; she summons her voice in a spell. Her classical music education at Orfeó Català is intertwined with her performative nature and her Fine Arts studies at Central Saint Martins. She wishes to explore the limits and possibilities of the voice as a ritualistic and expressive tool. On stage she transforms from phoenix to rhapsode, from rhapsode to siren. The catalan singer, producer and songwriter just released her second album, Muérdago. It is an album of many questions, few answers, with carefully curated sonic mantras leading the way. In it she uses from choral ambient to dark baroque electronics, to create an ASMR labyrinth of sorrow, bliss, and angered desire.

Its sound is a mix of eclectic, avant garde and experimental sound aesthetics, which holds the voice as the main character. In the making of the album, she has collaborated with additional producers MANS O and Pura Cadera, and it has been mastered by Rashad Becker.  Its live premiered at Sónar 2024 with a mesmerizing atmospheric and pictoric set.

Her debut album, Cántaro, came out in September 2022 and was made with infinite layers of voices. With it, she toured through Primavera Sound 2022 and 2023, Fundación Miró, Festival BAM 2023, She Makes Noise 2023, amongst many others.

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TOUCH ME NOT - HARA ALONSO

Hara Alonso is a pianist, composer and sound artist from Spain.

Her compositional process is based on bodily experience, exploring multisensory practices, memory, imagination and space as tools for sound creation. In recent years she has expanded the sonic and performative possibilities of the piano through extended techniques, somatic practices and signal processing. Her sonic universe, described as 'gloomy bubbling electronic power ambient', navigates between lush landscapes, minimal rhythms and hypnotic layers with a strong micro-lyrical presence. 

Her music has been presented as an ensemble, soloist and sound installation at numerous festivals such as Mutek (CDMX), She Makes Noise (Madrid), STRP (the Netherlands), Keroxen (Tenerife), OUT.SIDE (Barcelona) or Malmö festivalen (Sweden) among others.

In 2018 her first EP. 'Pianoïse' for piano and electronics, was released by the label Keroxen.  In 2021, Eotrax released her acclaimed first solo album ‘Somatic Suspension’. Free jazz album ‘Ritual para acercarse’ came out in 2022 in collaboration with Susana Santos Silva, Elsa Bergman and Camila Nebbia by Ramble Records. ‘Notions of hope', released on pianoandcoffee records, came out in autumn 2023 with 10 meditative piano tracks. In 2024 he released together with Mexican artist Concepción Huerta the album ‘Hacia la melancolía del futuro’ on the Superpang label.

Hara Alonso works as a researcher in the project ‘Body as Ears’ at the Stockholm University of the Arts. She lectures composition, music programming and improvisation at the Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm and has been a guest lecturer at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona and the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid.

PROJECT

touch•me•not emerges as a reflection on the corporeal relationship between the skin and the surrounds a surface, the ocean, a dried flower.

Hara Alonso's new album delves deep into our approach to sensoriality as bodies and sentient beings, by refusing to operate a discrimination of species. In that sense, it invites us to forget the tyranny of the visual, the lineal and the logic and pay attention to the haptic, evoked through a touching sound. It raises the question about the place we inhabit in a world that is weeping to be reenchanted and touched.

In the 18th century, Emanuel Swedenborg introduces the idea of correspondence and takes seriously the senses and the events of the sensual world as a proof of the spiritual world. A century later, Baudelaire, inspired by the Swedish theologian, writes the poem Correspondances, in which the senses are confused, immersed in a synesthetic hallucination.

Hara Alonso takes us on a walk not far away from the path Baudelaire strolled, through meadows, symbols, light and perfumes, entering a dimension of inverted senses where the body spills into a circle of desiring sensations and sensational desires, enclosing an innocent memory surrendered to the whole.

Accompanied by the percussions of Ryan Packard, the double bass of Ville Bromander and Ellen Söderhult’s voice, Hara Alonso weaves a loom composed of halos of harmonies, field recordings, Juno 6 and prepared piano.

touch•me•not will be released as vinyl in February 2025 in the Berlin based label FUU.

Hara Alonso :: https://haraalonso.com/ :: https://soundcloud.com/hara-alonso :: IG ::

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Head photo by Virginia Delfino