Found Scores: Listening in a time of Crisis
A summery of my PhD research
In times of crisis, conventional music often falls short of expressing complex life experiences. The nine projects presented here are grounded in my experience of listening inside a dark, enclosed container during an illegal journey to Europe. They introduce the concept of Found Scores—a practice-based approach that explores urgent listening through everyday materials and multisensory engagement. These works, which incorporate ECG machines, carpets, books, and radio circuit boards, activate senses such as touch, smell, and spatial awareness to expand the act of listening. Drawing from disciplines including medicine, handcraft, cartography, and literature, the research reimagines listening as a critical and embodied practice, highlighting the socio-political context of sound, the environment, and collective artistic labour.
Recycling Objects – Zürich
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…
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 frequencies. This score was written for Voice and Radiola Springs (prepared viola with springs and…
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 play in times of crisis? In his project Listening’s Urgency the sound artist Hardi Kurda, explores…
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 a plus oximeter that interacts with the musician’s heart pulses, it creates an interactive performance.…
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 from the past into the present by listening to radio noises. Duration is flexible. The…
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 bottom of a plastic cub. The Performer interpreted printed material from the library. The library…
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 on the chest of the patient. By touching the sensors, the coloured curves on the…
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 produce from their body when the ear defender headphone blocks their listening and try to…
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 the performance in real time during the performance with a era defender to react one…