Rites of Eternal Wind Prelude

Bilawa Respati

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HMOT

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Kokonja feat Alen Lee

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Capping off the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab in Almaty, we celebrate the beginning of the Rites of Eternal Wind season at the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture — the second Korkut Sonic Arts Triennale in Almaty, upcoming in May-June 2026.

The Korkut II Triennale – Rites of Eternal Wind – is one of the headline international projects of the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Art in 2026. As a preview, they are hosting CTM's Resynthesising the Traditional lab in October 2025, which will culminate in a first rite – a concert featuring HMOT aka Stas Shärifullá – one of Triennale and Resynthesising the Traditional curators; Kokonja, a participant of the Korkut Triennale's 2022 programme; and Bilawa Respati, an Indonesian sound artist and co-host of the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab. 

About the Artists

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 specialises 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 Shärifullá, 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 aka Kokonja 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. She will be appearing with Alen Lee, a performer, researcher and curator exploring free collective improvisation practices in terms of music context. Lee is a graduate of the Department of Music Composition of the California Institute of the Arts.

In partnership with CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Kazakhstan.