https://nikolfo.com nikolfo Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:51:10 +0000 https://nikolfo.com en https://nikolfo.com/home Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:33:02 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/home ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ Niko de Paula Lefort is a vibrational practitioner working as a sound artist and musician. His work covers the fields of music composition, improvisation, and performance, radio transmission / transmission art, instrument building, field recording, with a strong focus on relational listening and extended oral traditions. Also known as nikoLFO, he is a co-founder of&nbsp;Archipel Stations Community Radio, Portals Editions and Archipel Editions.Lefortʼs work has appeared in commissions for major museums, festivals and venues as well as more DIY settings, including Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Bilbao, Kunsthaus Göttingen, CTM, Bozar, Berghain, HeK Basel, Instituto Inhotim, Audio Rebel, KM28 as a solo artist and in various collaborations.Lefort holds degrees in Visual Arts, Generative Art / Computational Art, Music Technology and Experimental Sound Practices. &nbsp; projects 2018-current ︎ https://nikolfo.com/All-Projects-Header Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:33:03 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/All-Projects-Header https://nikolfo.com/chaosmos Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:57:00 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/chaosmos chaosmos vibrational practice: sound, curation, research, instrument building If you listened to the wind, when it blows in the beech trees and bellow in the air;If you know how to listen to the wind, when it leads its clouds like great sea birds, and when it bellowed in the air with its throat of frost;if you have sometimes heard the fountain and the river and the leaf cry, the whisper of the ripe grass in the meadows,you may know what I have to say.You already know it. (Marcela Delpastre, Prelude to Pagan Psalms - translated from French / Occitan) &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="https://archipeleditions.bandcamp.com/album/chaosmos-mending-the-fabric-of-life"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Chaosmos :: Mending The Fabric Of Life by Niko de Paula Lefort&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Mending The Fabric Of Life Acoustic version of Chaosmos with a focus on interaction with electromagnetic field via microFM radio transmission: acoustic guitar, voice, feet, sounding objects &amp; radio transmission https://nikolfo.com/sensible-fields Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:15:46 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/sensible-fields sensible fields (2022) a collaboration between Silvia Noronha &amp; Niko de Paula LefortSite-specific installation (microFM radio environment, various materials - wood, metal, stone etc.) <img width="2953" height="2215" width_o="2953" height_o="2215" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08c72c37f1aea28c4b58740fdf725c3486ae61b20774c8f4d578672770d82f4b/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_103.jpg" data-mid="134903954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08c72c37f1aea28c4b58740fdf725c3486ae61b20774c8f4d578672770d82f4b/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_103.jpg" /><img width="2215" height="2953" width_o="2215" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15373dff9de77d22f6c8f704259c9de2e68b30b817ac2b0d6f5ab430a056e230/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_047.jpg" data-mid="134904003" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15373dff9de77d22f6c8f704259c9de2e68b30b817ac2b0d6f5ab430a056e230/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_047.jpg" />&nbsp;<img width="2215" height="2953" width_o="2215" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a40a06d53d14f1434c13149f8262119abda8cce111bf6f9063583daa405f66c8/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_131.jpg" data-mid="134904532" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a40a06d53d14f1434c13149f8262119abda8cce111bf6f9063583daa405f66c8/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_131.jpg" /> <img width="2215" height="2953" width_o="2215" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/391f6fddd4bc8e52ceaf337557d65d3f89a68d6334aec32076e6f369c3136918/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_044.jpg" data-mid="134901741" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/391f6fddd4bc8e52ceaf337557d65d3f89a68d6334aec32076e6f369c3136918/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_044.jpg" />&nbsp;<img width="2215" height="2953" width_o="2215" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/623a7c6b53dda389d52c61e6f4aadb8181d75287e81599efa7d6bcc2a732bce0/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_050.jpg" data-mid="134904663" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/623a7c6b53dda389d52c61e6f4aadb8181d75287e81599efa7d6bcc2a732bce0/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_050.jpg" /><img width="2953" height="2215" width_o="2953" height_o="2215" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9427b21d6713844c8871e936d769ddf271cf5bdffef103e7effe983e4f6d55f1/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_074.jpg" data-mid="134904678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9427b21d6713844c8871e936d769ddf271cf5bdffef103e7effe983e4f6d55f1/Kunstverein_Goettingen_Silvia_Noronha_074.jpg" /> In the installation work sensible fields, Silvia Noronha &amp; Niko de Paula Lefort deal with the interrelation between materials and their environment, and how they “perceive” it. In this context, different materials – stones, sand, shells, plastics, earth, metal, electronics and glass – are understood as individual and social entities that influence their environment and whose connections shape the space that surrounds them. Toa follow this basic assumption, the artists install a performative radio transmission ecosystem that recognizes this network of relationships, as well as changes within it, and translates it to sound. sensible fields thus becomes an immersive environmental experience for viewers, as they themselves become part of these interrelationships and are invited to engage with their own position and activity in the space. Through movement — as viewers are invited to actively participate — vibration and oscillation, the relationships between the various material units are activated and changed. In this process, the electromagnetic environment, which is not visible to the eye, is both tool and material, because environmental information is transported through it in the form of frequencies that make the network of relationships within the space possible in the first place. Finally, sensible fields is also an observation of everyday being, in which we are continuously situated in a material community with our surroundings. https://nikolfo.com/elusive-grounds Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:51:10 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/elusive-grounds elusive grounds collective art-science exhibition in collaboration with mycologist Martin Schlecht <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/250097602900a90aaa4324276636f3258779a6d2fa6fa8ba663df1c88bbf2403/2022_10_07_ElusiveGrounds_Austellung_10.jpg" data-mid="166300605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/250097602900a90aaa4324276636f3258779a6d2fa6fa8ba663df1c88bbf2403/2022_10_07_ElusiveGrounds_Austellung_10.jpg" /> aurality :: mycelia (2022) | detail from the installation | wild bioluminescent mushrooms, microFM radio ecosystem, UV light | collective exhibition Elusive Grounds at the gallery&nbsp;Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin 2022 https://nikolfo.com/radio-gardening-1 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:31:56 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/radio-gardening-1 RADIO GARDENING Monai de Paula Antunes &amp; Niko de Paula Lefort TRANSMISSION ARTARCHIVE PROCESSING Radio gardening is a radiophonic environment, mixing heterogeneous content, formats and traditions of radio-making within radio’s own material complexity. Playing on the material-semiotic features of FM transmission, Radio Gardening entangles bodies in space with the immediate electromagnetic environment, sonic archive and live aural material. https://nikolfo.com/aurality-2 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:56:44 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/aurality-2 AURALITY ARTISTIC RESEARCH &amp; PRACTICE COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE &amp; INSTALLATION SERIES Aurality promotes diversity and inclusion in knowledge making models, with focus on music, sound, and vibrational structures and epistemologies formed by the interaction with the environment and with others in relation. It refers to sounding situated knowledges, acoustemologies and vibrational affect theory. Growing outwards from a research on early American minimalism and tradional musics, with a focus on tuning (Just Intonation, Harmonic Space, microtonalities), it also engaged with several vibrational elements through field recordings, bioacoustics and radio experiments emphasizing their natureculture and shared inner-outer spatial aspects. AURALITY :: -20°10 -044°04 (2021) &amp;lt;a href="https://famousgrapes.bandcamp.com/album/aurality-20-10-453176-044-04-014329"&amp;gt;Aurality -20°10’45.3176” -044°04’01.4329” de NikoLFO&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; Video for Dawn (part I) by Laura Fong Prosper : AURALITY :: RADIO OTHERWISE (2021) Live at Floating Berlin DE on Archipel Stations Community Radio AURALITY :: MARROW (2021) Live at Rota festival, Murcia SP Field research for Marrow (field recordings) AURALITY :: SZOMIA (2021) Transmission Art Installation at Centro Negra SP AURALITY :: COSMOBODY (2021) Generative multichannel piece presented at Micromusic festival FR AURALITY :: THE ETERNAL MUSIC MACHINE Excerpt from AV live at ACUD Berlin DE (live video by Laura Fong Prosper) Unreleased recordings made at EMS Stockholm in 2019 on Buchla 200 and Supercollider Related project: Aural Maps (2020-) radio show / live artistic research on Archipel Stations Community Radio https://nikolfo.com/radio-otherwise Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:11:10 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/radio-otherwise Radio Otherwiselistening, ecologies and cybernetics collaboration with Kate Donovan &amp; Monaí de Paula Antunes https://radiootherwise.net/ https://nikolfo.com/aural-maps Thu, 27 May 2021 12:23:03 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/aural-maps AURAL MAPS RADIO SHOW | ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROCESSING On Archipel Stations / FRBB FM88.4 Berlin&nbsp;&amp; 90.1 Potsdam streaming at archipel.community In 2020 Aural Maps relayed Comme A La Radio, my show that focused on durational music, going for a mainly live non-linear narrative exploration of Aurality throughout sounds, stories and interviews. Aurality is a concept describing the techniques, modalities, embodiments and effects of information 'carried on' or 'engraved in' sound waves and vibrations.Presented more or less regularly as a quaterly 2-3 hours live show, also with guests and live performances. upcoming: Aural Maps :: La Nòvia[EN]&nbsp;work in progressseries of free form radio shows on occitan tradition through interviews and recordings of artists from collective La Nòvia and field recordings. Recorded on the field in June and August 2022, funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.&nbsp; [FR]&nbsp;en cours de réalisationsérie d'émissions de radio de forme libre sur la tradition occitane à travers des interviews et des enregistrements d'artistes et des enregistrements de terrain autour du collectif La Nòvia. Enregistré sur le tereain en juin et août 2022, financé par le département du Sénat de Berlin pour la culture et l'Europe. previous transmissions: AuralMaps#7 in which we are blown away by Aluar Horns and shivered by Zar voices, transcended by all kind of sublime percussions as we wonder from Zaire to Cairo to Ramala to Nigeria to Brazil to the Alps and beyond, a timbral stopover in Berlin and going for a lunisolar walk through champak flowers to visit modern and contemporary ghosts of Makan AuralMaps#6 in which we invite Berlin based improvisors JD Zazie, Tony Elieh and nikoLFO to radiate between bookshelves some live electronics and field recordings from around the world at Zabriskie bookshop, to later on seat and talk about the secret cinema room of the library of Alexandria AuralMaps#5&nbsp;in which we settle in Berlin Neukölln’s new music venue KM28 to listen under the aula of Karlrecords to the encounter of 3 fantastic improvisers, Audrey Chen, Ale Hop and Aidan Backer, and receive intermittant rays of sounds from West Africa, Algeria, Middle-East, South-East Asia via Berlin, and Occitania AuralMaps#4&nbsp;in which we listen to arboreal matters, discuss decentralized electronics and Roma music, hang out at Café Aman, get transported by the beauty of an out-of-time / out-of-place improvisation, learn about equivalencies in the vibrational multiverse and anti-gravitational voices, are teared appart by other voices, from the Psyche, from the Andes ︎︎︎Aural Maps #1 to #3 listings of content with coresponding links here AuralMaps#3&nbsp;in which we make kin with sonic monsters from Mali and Java, deep dive in modern cathartic rituals, surface in the occitan sky towards spiritual ecstasy with the Coltranes, and, returning to Mali via the Amazon, pay tribute to Yehia le marabout AuralMaps#2&nbsp;in which we follow Fodéba Keita and the Ballets Africains in their panafrican journey, receive Postal Pieces from the Harmonic Space people, take a walk through a radio garden, meet occitan birds and poets blowing down walls, and get enlighted by the joint endeavours of troubadours and Sufi poets AuralMaps#1&nbsp;in which we learn from occitan folk songs, listen carefully, silently in kissa bars, meet spirits from across Brazil cosmologies, travel to the moon and back, to Brazil again, cross the harmonic space and get stuck in a transcendental degradation loop https://nikolfo.com/with-Laura-Fong-Prosper Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:43:57 +0000 nikolfo https://nikolfo.com/with-Laura-Fong-Prosper with&nbsp;Laura Fong Prosper Audiovisual collaborations since 2019 &nbsp; MUCUS BLOOD MILK (2021) DAWN from the album aurality -20°10’45.3176” -044°04’01.4329” on Famous Grapes Recordings AURALITY live at ACUD (2019) Live at LAB30's Elektrokonferenz (2021)