ROTA is an experimental music festival  created by AADK SP, that spans the spectrum between traditional music and post-industrial electronica under the motto ‘from roots to noise’. Initiated in 2017 by Selu Herraiz and Elena Azzedin, it takes place in the rural town of Blanca and the city of Murcia. Its main objective is to raise awareness and interest in peripheral territories and positively contribute to their repopulation by bringing the most innovative contemporary culture closer. Additionally, the festival works to create networks for the transmission of knowledge among peers and to foster the creation of new contemporary rituals to strengthen bonds.

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The unstoppable continuous rotation.
The inevitable change. The world is different.
Rurality is activated as a territory for new practices.

Through care, a new sound ecosystem is generated from the fissure.
From local to global.

  • Collective sound action guided by Mark Shorter

  • After lunch meeting

  • Active Listening Meditation

  • Nacho Muñoz, De La Raíz Al Noise 2019

  • Carlos Suárez, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • La Orquesta Exploratoria / Nacho Muñoz (Galicia) + Peña Huertana La Capaza (Blanca), De La Raíz Al Noise 2018

  • Laboratorio de Escucha Activa / Grupo infantil de Sonora, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • La Orquesta Exploratoria / Nacho Muñoz (Galicia) + Peña Huertana La Capaza (Blanca), De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • La Orquesta Exploratoria / Nacho Muñoz (Galicia) & Peña Huertana La Capaza (Blanca), De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • La Orquesta Exploratoria / Nacho Muñoz (Galicia) & Peña Huertana La Capaza (Blanca), De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Aurora Rodríguez, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Ensemble de la deriva / dirigido por Josep Lluis Galiana (Valencia), De La Raíz Al Noise 2018

  • Elena Azzedin / Atractores Extraños, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Elena Azzedin / Atractores Extraños, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Jorge Barco, ROTA Festival 2021

  • Julia Eckhardt, ROTA Festival 2021

  • Rabih Beaini / Morphine, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Marta de Pascalis, ROTA Festival 2021

  • Niko LFO, ROTA Festival 2021

  • Ruda, ROTA Festival 2021

  • Mariana Carvalho / Aldarrax, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Flamante / Aldarrax, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Josman P# / De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Agus / Estrasburgo1518, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Elena Azzedin, Abraham Hurtado & Mariana Carvalho, Impro session, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Hugo Capablanca / Capablancas Records, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Carlos Suárez, 2019

  • Falsos Profetas / Aldarrax, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Falsos Profetas / Aldarrax, De la Raíz al Noise 2020

  • Koichi Shimizu, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Úrsula Bravo, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Susana López, 2019

  • Selu Herraiz & Carlos Suárez / Atractores Extraños, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Pia Achternkamp, De La Raíz Al Noise 2018

  • Carlos Suárez, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Raúl Cantizano, De la Raíz al Noise 2019

  • Artificiero, ROTA Festival 2021

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ROTA develops an annual program that includes concerts, sound residencies, educational activities, and publications, shifting towards a gathering format where the focus is on bringing people together. Its curation includes unique and unpublished sound pieces developed on-site, inviting musicians to explore the local environment and its traditions during a residency period prior to the festival. In this way, ROTA serves as a bridge: linking folk and avant-garde sounds, bringing cosmopolitanism to rural areas, and highlighting both underground and academic music. The festival supports emerging creators and musicians with long trajectories equally, with a strong emphasis on the visibility of women, non-binary individuals, and BIPOC. AADK SP, through ROTA, we aim to generate new communities around sound and contribute to the international visibility of the Region of Murcia.

Listen  

Here you can find many of the full concerts and some sound clips from the artists who have performed at the festival.

SEE

Visit our visual radio channel –ALDARRAX–, where you can find videos of the concerts in the various playlists.

ARCHIVE

ROTA 6a Edición · 14-20 Diciembre 2023

THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER

Centro Negra
Concerts
Chago
Severine Beata
Builtthenburnt

Instalactions
1000 Murmurs
Le Parody

FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER

Teatro Victoria

Concerts
Cereus
Alvaro Sola
José Perelló

SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER

Centro Negra

Concerts
1000 Murmurs
Nadelør
Al de la Algaida
Mitchell Keaney

DJ set
Squid Inc

SUNDAY 17 DECEMBER

Castillo
Sound Intervention
Mark Shorter

Teatro Victoria
Concert
La Capaza
Projection
‘El Sonido de un Valle’

MONDAY 18 DECEMBER

Rambla de las Salinas
SOUND WALK

Diane Barbé
& Selu Herraiz

TUESDAY 19 DECEMBER

Centro Negra
Somatic Workshop
‘Body Bewilder’
Lou Croff Blake
& Madelyn Byrd

Cashmere Radio
Radiophonic Transmision
Improvisación
Collectiva

Listen to the concerts and some excerpts from the artists

 

ROTA x Cashmere Radio

Colaboración especial con la radio alternativa Cashmere, radicada en Berlin.

12.12.2023 · con Alvaro Sola, Cereus, Le Parody, Severine Beata, Selu Herraiz & Diane Barbé

19.12.2023 · con loh (Pia Achternkamp), 1000 Murmurs, The Whisper, Nadelør (Nime & Burgund T. Brandt), Severine Beata, Jacob Eriksen, Ana Carucci, Munda (Selu Herraiz), Alvaro Sola, Mark Shorter, Sevc, Mitchell Keaney & Diane Barbé

26.12.2023 · con Abraham Hurtado, Giuliana Grippo, Mitchell Keaney, Selu Herraiz & Diane Barbé

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