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Recycling Objects Zürich – Sonic Matter Festival – We Spoke Ensemble
This year, the SONIC MATTER_village is exploring the melody of the city in collaboration with artist Hardi Kurda. Along with festival visitors, he will set off in search of abandoned, forgotten and lost things, eliciting hidden sounds and stories from…
Voice Notes: Exile
hardikurda · Voice Notes Performance Voice Notes is an international creative writing and sound arts project that shares and celebrates the voices of those who have experienced forced displacement. Exploring the role of the telephone in experiences of exile, it…
Your Resonance
Your Resonance based on Hardi’s mother health check diary book, she passed away in 2019 the work dedicated to her. The diary book a Hardi’s found score, he want to use it feel her resonance and share it with audience,…
The Legitimated Body & Navigated Listener
The Legitimated Body and Navigated Listener – Shubbak Festival in London 2023 A live collaboration between Hardi, Khabat, an unusual interactive radio and a shell bomb cello, in transcendent dialogue with artists and audiences in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan. In this…
Radiola Springs
Radiola Springs by Hardi Kurda This album of Hardi is a selection of pieces related to radio from 2005 until 2020. The Radiola Springs project was developed during the pandemic. It is a viola prepared with springs and a radio…
Ealing Road Sounds
Download the Ealing Road Sound on App Store Ealing Road SoundsWe are Alive and Kicking –Communities and People from Ealing Road after Covid How often do we buy clothes, visit restaurants or shops in one of the numerous shops along…
Illegal Frequencies
This works as an interactive radio antenna. Performance – Interactive Installation. Recreates a listening map Hardi made after becoming lost while crossing the Mediterranean Sea in a shipping container, using the different news broadcasts that radio broadcasts could pick up…
Everything [IS] Illegal
Telepathic Performance – Found score of illegal stories. Everything [IS] Illegal for a verbal score of narrative stories of people’s and artists’ experiences with the meaning of illegality interrelated with the notion of noise. It shows another aspect of radio…
Listening’s Urgency
Previous title: Listening Urgency is a live Performance with an ensemble for open radio – telepathic performance and workshop. In times of contact restrictions, the radio is even more of an instrument to bridge the isolation. What role does listening…
ReAction – InAction – DistrAction
Stefan Klaverdal – Khabat Abas – Hardi Kurda Exploratorium Berlin 2019
Broken Resonance
PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths, London 18 June 2019 Duo Moment, Hardi Kurda & Khabat Abas
Hammam’s Maqam
The Latest News
For newspaper and interactive performance with map and pulse oximeter. This Found Score interacts with the latest newspaper from where the version/performance takes place. Here The found score deconstruct the newspapers and the map of the place/city, and together with…
Illegal Score – Dukan Dam
This found score is a performance/installation of an Electricity Network Map of Dukan-Dam in Kurdistan, Iraq. Dukan-Dam is an illegal score and has two versions: (i) video score, musicians will follow the coloured drawings on the video. This Performance is…
Sounding Carpet
The Sounding carpet is the Found Score of textile, an interactive sound art project for a Kurdish carpet. It uses interactive sound art; the audience can dig their fingers into the carpet to connect, transform, and decode the carpet symbols…
Recycling Objects
The found score of The Recycling Object – Recycling Object, 2016 Previous title, Cartographic Notation of Recycling Objects (RO): The found score of recycling objects and a real-time cartographic score of a city map, projecting The found score on a…
Vibration of Books
Previous title, Time – Place – Space (TPS): Interactive performance in the library for prepared strings with plastic film; wrap around the bridge, thin metal wires, and plastic cub; the thin metal wires connected the bow which goes to the…
Diagnosis Machine
It also has a Swedish title under, Diagnosmaskinen: Interactive sound installation and real-time score. This project is for an ECG monitor from hospital (Electrocardiography). The users (visitors, patients, and hospital employees) touch the sensors of the monitor, which normally placed…
Pull and Release
Composition by Hardi Kurda in collaboration with the multimedia artist Sherko Abbas for the project ‘When the Wild Instrument! Sing!’ performed by Khabat Abas on the prepared cello, Sherko Abbas on a handmade instrument, Hardi Kurda on viola, and live…
Open Ensemble
Body noise, ear defender headphone, chair and everyday objects: an installation for for more than one performer. The project explores a listening experience where the body disconnects from the mind. The audience members are the performers: they listen to noises…
The Conversation Date-Place
(Based on the date and place when the performance takes place): previous title, Conversation – Improvisation – Composition (CIC). The musicians record their conversation same day of the performance and one using transcription of the audio files to text for…