Hardi Kurda

Voice Notes: Exile

hardi — Sat, 04 May 2024 09:36:00 +0000

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 is led by Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Team: Sarah Jackson. Writer and Project Lead.
Nottingham Trent University. Leah Gayer, Actor and Project Manager. Compass Collective. Hardi Kurda, Sound Artist. SPACE21. More info visit Voice Notes website: https://crossedlines.co.uk/voice-notes/ https://www.compasscollect.com/voice-notes https://www.nae.org.uk/event/voice-notes/

Your Resonance

hardi — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:44:00 +0000

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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, he connected the ECG monitor to his body generating deep-sub bass tones that get louder the deeper he breath. When audience arrives the venue, they are invited to take a heart rate test, numbers which Hardi use it also as another found score to control the sounds that has been triggered by his body from the ECG monitor. Hardi is mapping the numbers from the audience based on the heart rate of the audience then he connected to his mother diary book. Commissioned by Another Sky Festival in London on 30 September 2023.

The Legitimated Body & Navigated Listener

hardi — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:39:00 +0000

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 anarchic act of rogue legitimation, Hardi manipulates a radio circuit board to play unfrequented frequencies inspired by a very specific listening memory of Hardi’s; his own ‘illegal’ immigration to Europe in 2002.

Having travelled inside a shipping container with a small radio he used to gather intelligence on his surroundings, the noises from the radio created a new listening knowledge. Khabat makes a cello out of a shell bomb.

Commenting on the power of authorities to find loopholes to legitimise the unlawful, particularly the illegal global trade of arms, Hardi and Khabat will be in sonic dialogue with their home city of Slemani, questioning the integrity of international law and who it is for.

In this unusual night of corporeal rebellion, the audience in each location will use their bodies to affect the frequencies heard in the other city. An invitation to explore the hidden rules behind the rules. An invitation for family members, friends, and strangers across the two cities to come together.

Created in collaboration with Station House Opera.
Co-presented with Watermans Arts Centre.
Generously supported by British Council and Arts Council England

www.shubbak.co.uk/the-legitimated-body-and-navigated-listener/

Radiola Springs

hardi — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:31:00 +0000

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 circuit. Hardi wanted to recreate the sound of his stolen violin, the violin immigrated to Baghdad at the beginning of the 70th from West Germany. In 2018, the violin was stolen in Gothenburg’s most trusted string repairing shops. Hardi wants to connect the spectrum of the radio frequencies to the violated viola to search for the sound of his stolen violin. Something he want to connect the sound from the Radiola Springs to his listening experience when he illegally immigrated to Europe. He searched for information by listening to radio noises.

Ealing Road Sounds

hardi — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:50:00 +0000

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We 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 the famous Ealing Road in the heart of Wembley connecting Wembley Central and Alperton Stations? Don’t we all want to know the stories of the people behind those well-stocked and multifaceted businesses and exciting community centres? Or, did one ever listen to the unusual sounds we encounter along this busy road?

From 30 July to 20 August 2022, both sides of Ealing Road in Brent, West London, are the host of a major exhibition based on sounds and photographs of this famous road. On 30 July, the exhibition opens with a free spectacle from 2 to 4 pm on the premises of the colourful Brent Indian Association Centre. The closing session is a swinging party with local bands and a DJ at the TRADER Wembley from 7 to 11 pm. For both events local shops provide tasty food and exotic drinks.

In short, the project aims to create onsite exhibitions, presenting large photographs, posters, 100 sound examples and a short film. A similar exhibition will be created as an app for mobile phones and laptops; one experience all sounds while virtually walking along Ealing Road.

The relatively short stretch of Ealing Road in Wembley, West London represents everything in London, by far the largest city in Europe, stands for: a hub of multicultural life, made up of communities representing cultures of the whole world and thriving businesses to the benefit of customers and owners alike. For the last 60 years, this area of London has benefited from a significant impact of immigrants not only from the Indian Subcontinent; they have shaped and developed this area. Their cultures, beliefs, business acumen and food traditions have enriched the lives of all communities in this part of London and beyond.

The movers and shakers of the project are the curators and audio-visual producer Rolf Killius and the sound artist Hardi Kurda; both are part of the theatre company Mukul and the Ghetto Tigers led by the legendary theatre director Mukul Ahmed. As the people of the Ealing Road tell their stories, they become co-curators in this project. The Ealing Road Sounds facilitators express their gratitude to the Brent Council (NCIL fund), who generously funded this project.

Illegal Frequencies

hardi — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:01:38 +0000

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 as a form of navigation. This performance was in Sonoscopia at Porto on 10 December 2022, and ADK in Berlin 16-18 August 2022 part of Sounding Conference.

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Everything is Illegal

hardi — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 11:46:59 +0000

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 frequencies. This score was written for Voice and Radiola Springs (prepared viola with springs and radio circuit board) performed by Nina Guo, voice and Hardi Kurda, Radiola Springs. I investigate the question of what ‘illegal’ means from an artistic perspective. Who decides what is legal and illegal when it comes to artistic practice? With all the rules that make up our everyday life, how can music and sound contribute to a space of freedom? Performed live in Radio Corax on 07 June 2020

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Listening’s Urgency

hardi — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:53:56 +0000

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 play in times of crisis? In his project Listening’s Urgency the sound artist Hardi Kurda, explores the radio medium as a social connection through the found score to experience listening to the hidden voices questing the construction of the legality.

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Review: Opening Performance “Listening’s Urgency”

„Listening’s Urgency“ – Live Radio Performance

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ReAction – InAction – DistrAction

hardi — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:14:04 +0000

Stefan Klaverdal – Khabat Abas – Hardi Kurda Exploratorium Berlin 2019

Broken Resonance

hardi — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:29:00 +0000

PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths, London 18 June 2019

Duo Moment, Hardi Kurda & Khabat Abas

https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=12611

Hammam’s Maqam

hardi — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:22:00 +0000

The Latest News

hardi — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:33:34 +0000

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 a plus oximeter that interacts with the musician’s heart pulses, it creates an interactive performance. It creates another listening experience that appears from The found score of newspaper, maps, and heart pulses. The piece is for one or more performer/s. The duration and instrumentation of the work are flexible. The Latest News was first performed by ensemble recherché: piano, percussion, flute, viola, and oboe, in Freiburg at Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft Stiftung. It was commissioned by TheSwedish Artist Grant Committee, an international residency programme. 25 January 2019

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Illegal Score – Dukan Dam

hardi — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:36:47 +0000

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 a collaboration with a Swedish Composer Stefan Klaverdal. Commissioned by Swedish Art Council. (ii) This is a real-time drawing and playing with the illegal score for flexible instruments to follow the drawing inside the score. This version recorded in collaboration with the cellist Khabat Abas, she recorded with her skin-cello tailpiece.

Sounding Carpet

hardi — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:48:34 +0000

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 from the past into the present by listening to radio noises. Duration is flexible. The documentation is from the festival Space21 for sound art and experimental music, where I am a founder and curator of the festival. Place: Erbil and Slemani – Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan-Iraq) on 19–26 April 2018

Another version: The Magnified Face (MF) is for using the Kurdish carpet as a pictographic score for telepathically performance. The duration is flexible. The initial performance was organised by ADK Berlin and curated by Julia Gerlach for a symposium revolve around John Heartfield and the concept of Found Footage. “The Magnified Face” was performed by Jennifer Walshe (voice), Tomomi ADACHI (voice), and Hardi Kurda (Radiola Springs, prepared viola with small radio circuits and springs) on 19 June 2020 telepathically, online.

Recycling Objects

hardi — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:30:10 +0000

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 sounding table. The performers play with the objects on the projected found score on the sounded table to explore another listening experience to interrelated to climate and city maps. The piece is for one or more performers, either musicians or the audience. The duration of the work is flexible—recycling Objects commissioned by Swedish Art Council. The first performance was at the Universeum Science Centre in Gothenburg, performed by Adam Bohman, Hardi Kurda, and a group of school classes during the Annual Science Festival. 05 April 2016.

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Vibration of Books

hardi — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:54:38 +0000

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 bottom of a plastic cub. The Performer interpreted printed material from the library. The library visitors suggested the books and were selected by the performers themselves. The performer’s moving gestures on the instrument move the wire, creating vibration inside the plastic cub, it is muted by the plastic film. The piece is for one or more performer/s. Duration is flexible. Commissioned by the Gothenburg Culture Committee and State Library. The first performance was by Malva String Quartet, Khabat Abas and Hardi Kurda, in Gothenburg State Library on September 14, 2016.

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Diagnosis Machine

hardi — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:39:31 +0000

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 on the chest of the patient. By touching the sensors, the coloured curves on the monitor react depending on the electro reactions from the heart. The ECG is connected to an Arduino open hardware and software to map the numbers comes from the monitor. Those numbers trigger different musical parameters, using Cycling 74 Max MSP and Ableton Live software, where the sound design was created. The public art department in Västra Götaland Region in Sweden commissioned this project, and the first exhibition was in Gothenburg Angered Hospital from December 7, 2018, to March 7, 2019.

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Pull and Release

hardi — Tue, 19 May 2015 16:01:00 +0000

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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 electronics.

Open Ensemble

hardi — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:45:00 +0000

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 produce from their body when the ear defender headphone blocks their listening and try to imagine hearing on play on an object that is placed in the chair. As soon as someone started performing in an open ensemble, the project shifted from an installation to a performance act. The piece is for one or more performers, musicians, artists, or audience members. Duration are flexible. This piece was first performed at the Sound Place Exhibition at St. James Hatcham at Goldsmiths, the University of London, curated by Sandra Kazlauskaite and Tom Tlalim on May 13, 2015.

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The Conversation Date-Place

hardi — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:24:43 +0000

(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 the performance in real time during the performance with a era defender to react one the conversation. The piece is for one or more performers. The duration of the piece is flexible. This piece was performed by musicians in London, Gothenburg, and Berlin between 2015 and 2020.

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