Kristoff K.Roll, Kristoff K.Roll, from one jungle to another, between multilingual dreams and electroacoustic blues
Kristoff K.Roll is an electroacoustic music duo founded by Carole Rieussec and J.-Kristoff Camps. In connection with other videos available on the Volare website, they offer here an overview of their acoustic and sonic approach—both in terms of musical technique and the political, intellectual, and deeply human inspiration that drives their ever-evolving experiments.At the heart of it all is a passion for encounters with others—free and uniquely sovereign individuals—alongside a deep respect for their singularity (of language, culture, and life). This passion is coupled with a desire to listen to the other, to offer them a space to speak, to create, and even to shout their universal right to be respected, welcomed, and allowed to live freely and in peace. This commitment persists even in the harshest conditions inflicted by the contemporary world upon the ‘wretched of the earth’—conditions where resistance is still possible: in the Calais Jungle, migrant camps in the Mediterranean, in economic hardship, in Mexican prisons, and in the Zapatista jungle…