Autotel

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Joaquín Aldunate, who presents himself as Autotel, was born in Santiago de Chile by the end of the 80s. As he puts it, his musical activity emerged organically from the fascination with the sounds of the world, especially the piano that was at his childhood home. The experience of suffering through the school system while he discovered the world offered by computers and internet, led him to a radically autonomous path of discovery of music and tech. He studied industrial design and focused on the design of musical interfaces that could help people unschool themselves in relation to music teaching. From then, he kept researching and creating new, complex digital and physical tools that challenge preconceptions of composition. Studied a Ma in New Media at Aalto university and stayed for many years in Finland. He has been part of the experimental music scene in Helsinki, performing in festivals and venues such as Kaiku, Kontula Electronic and Ääniaalto. The year 2023, Autotel is back in Chile, where he is currently connecting to Patagonian music scene and nature, and working on new sounds.

Autotel's live performances are a mix of improvisation and composition, sometimes using his own instruments to create a unique experience for each performance. His music is a mix of ambient, techno and experimental music, with a strong focus on the exploration of the sonic possibilities of the instruments. The music is definitively in the genre of electronic and dance, but there is always an outsider's undertone to it. Part of Autotel's statement as artist, -almost a spiritual search- is to do things for the intrinsic enjoyment, so there are many hedonistic and rhytmic beats to get lost into while at the same time there is something for the weirdos out there.

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Selected live dates

2026-01-17 Sistemas Inestables live, opening act. La Casona, Frutillar, Chile.
2025-08-30 Underground Lab Vol. 11. Molino Viejo, Puerto Varas, Chile.
2025-06-08 No Signal showcase. La Casona, Frutillar, Chile.
2025-02-08 No Signal festival, sound experience. Molino Viejo, Puerto Varas, Chile.
2023 Myymälä Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
1942, Puerto Varas, Chile.
Live set for South Plug's Latitudes, recorded in Pasila, Helsinki.
2022-01 Live session for Ciudad Sonora, at Estudio Tensa, Chile.
2020–2021 Live weekly: a year of weekly composition, recording and performance. Sessions in the forest, TUO TUO residency, Joutsa, Finland.
2020 Katarsis, Finland.
2019 Kontula Electronic, Helsinki. Ääniaalto (virtual modular environment and calculeitors). Start Arts and Middle Arts, Otaniemi, Finland.
2018 Pheromondo at Kaiku, Helsinki (2018-05-21).
Calculeitor Party, Kallio Stage, Helsinki (2018-05-04).
Ääniaalto III (2018-03). Hengenvaara underground party, Helsinki.
2017 Ocaniemanights, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki (2017-03-17). Ääniaalto II, Vapaan Taiteen Tila.
Students work expo, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Café con Cables, Santiago, Chile. Espoo Mini Maker Faire, Finland.
2016 Dash festival, Finland: premiere of “Multiplayer msCompose 95” and the interactive piece “In the box”. Ääniaalto, medialab Miestentie 3.
2015 Laikittomat Paskiaiset / Entropy, Finland (2015-09-26). DADA founding meeting (2015-11-20). Espoo Mini Maker Faire.
Leanplay Masisa opening, If, Santiago (2015-06-03). Fiesta Asech, Santiago. Creative Sessions 02, Sound Creative, Santiago. LasCabras, Santiago Makerspace.
2014 “Cine B” opening, If, Santiago, Chile (2014-12-17).

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