Sound Artist
Sound Artist
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…
What is the role of citizens and local communities in preserving the sound of their region? Who decided what music and sounds are ‘worth’ being archived? And how should we engage with archives as sites of both remembering and forgetting? As…
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 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…
Stefan Klaverdal – Khabat Abas – Hardi Kurda Exploratorium Berlin 2019
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…
(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…
