Alongside finishing my studies at the Kunsthochschule of Kassel, I have been developing over the last few months a digital platform focused on sound art and music, with a radio station, an archive, collections and didactic tools. We launched it in April of this year as an evolution of the Chair Radio project, a series of radio programs broadcasted live from our studio and through Trafo Radio over several months of 2025. There I was primarily involved on the technical and curatorial side, building collaborations with artists from within and outside the city and putting together programs with a wide variety of voices and formats. My work can be understood on different levels, but I have a particular interest in reaching people and creating spaces where the people who make up my day to day life feel invited and can engage. I refuse to see art as something elitist. As a result, what I produce tends to be stripped of the superfluous and reduced to its essence, from which it can evolve. Following this conceptual line I began quite young to get involved in the hip hop scene of northern Madrid. Painting graffiti and rapping, which later led me to the techno scene as a DJ, and I started organizing events and illegal raves that continue to this day. In recent years, following these currents, I have moved into the world of sound as a rawer and more experimental way. Making sound installations, performances at events like Vera Sonora or radio programs like Trafo Listening Sessions, working with my body, with field recordings, analogue and digital instruments, old tapes and flamenco vinyl records. In the Rundgang of 2024 we created Sobremesa, a community project where through the collective act of cooking and sitting down to eat together we built a space for exchange, gathering and rest, that year bringing together more than 40 people, groups and collectives. Since then it has been developed twice with students from the Hegelsbergschule, and it took part in Gallerie Fest 2025 with the association Ag Südstadt at the space MOOIMOOI.
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Diego Asens
