Rites of Eternal Wind is one of the headline international projects of the Tselinny for 2026. This is a major international event attracting more than 20 artists and musicians from all over the world to present their works — from Western to Southeast Asia, from Lebanon and Palestine to Japan and India.

For the first ‘rite’, a presentation of the Triennale programme and concert, we invited HMOT – one of the project curators; Kokonja, a participant of programme 2022, as well as Bilawa Respati, an Indonesian sound artist. The event is supported by the Goethe-Institut Kasachstan and the CTM festival (Berlin).

October 24

19:00

Bilawa Ade Respati is an Indonesian musician and artist based in Berlin. He performs on the Javanese Gamelan and the guitar, composing music for both instruments. Recently, he has also started experimenting with electronic music and algorithmic music composition.

Formally trained in Engineering Physics, he specializes in acoustic signal processing and music information retrieval, with a focus on the analysis of Javanese gamelan music. Parallel to his formal training as an

engineer, he has also studied classical guitar, Javanese gamelan, and music composition from various teachers as well as autodidactically.

HMOT is a music project of Stas Sharifulla, a Basel-based artist and researcher with Siberian-and-Bashqort roots working with sound and autochthonous musical practices of North and Central Asia. Stas is a curator of the Resynthesising the Traditional lab, a teacher and PhD student at the University of Basel, and a lecturer and mentor at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW (Basel, Switzerland).

Daria Nurtaza is an artist who combines sound, craft and painting practices in a new movement of contemporary Kazakh art. She is a student of Bakhyt Bubikanova. Daria absorbs the smells of everyday life and creates her music and visual art works on the verge of absurdity and abstraction.

Alen Lee is a performer, researcher and curator exploring free collective improvisation practices in terms of music context. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Composition of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts, 2022).

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