NIKO DE PAULA LEFORT is a musician and sound artist whose work with music, radio and technology foregrounds relational listening and the cosmopolitics of vibration - as reflected in his artistic research into Aurality and Chaosmos. Also known as nikoLFO & Nicolas Lefort, he is a co-founder of Archipel e.V. and Archipel Stations Community Radio, of the transmission art collective Radio Otherwise, and of experimental music labels label Portals Editions and Archipel Editions.
Lefort's work has appeared in commissions for international museums, festivals and venues such as Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Bilbao, Kunsthaus Göttingen, CTM, Bozar, Berghain, HeK Basel and Instituto Inhotim as a solo arist and in various collaborations. He holds degrees in Visual Arts, Generative Art / Computational Art, Music Technology and Experimental Sound Practices.
image credits: Tony Elieh (top); Clara Antunes (bottom)