# Hardi Kurda > Sound Artist ## Posts - [PRS New Music Biennial](https://hardikurda.com/prs-new-music-biennail/) - [Recycling Objects - Zürich](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [Residence at Beyond1932](https://hardikurda.com/archive-of-listening/): 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 part of the ERC’s Beyond 1932 Research Project at King’s College London, sound artist and composer Hardi Kurda will launch his new project, Archive Khanah. The event is part of Space21 Festival based across Slemani (Kurdistan) and its artist networks in Lebanon, Cyprus and the UK. The evening will introduce the sound archive’s interactive and community-based approach to recording and archiving forgotten and excluded voices […] - [Voice Notes: Exile](https://hardikurda.com/voice-notes-performance/): 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 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/ - [VioTar - Improvisation](https://hardikurda.com/viotar/): VioTar is my violin prepared with setar strings collected from the places I’ve visited. By changing the tuning and frequencies, I explore new sonic possibilities and question why the violin, an instrument with its own history, still sounds the same. This practice reflects my experience as a Kurdish in diaspora: displaced, seeking my voice, and navigating between the sounds of the present and those of memory. Playing VioTar reconnects me with the curiosity of learning the violin for the first time, while opening me to new textures, resonances, and a decolonial way of listening. - [Your Resonance](https://hardikurda.com/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, 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 […] - [Legitimated Body & Navigated Listener](https://hardikurda.com/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 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. […] - [Radiola Springs](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [Ealing Road Sounds](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [Illegal Frequencies](https://hardikurda.com/illegal-frequencies-porto-1012/): 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. hardikurda · illegal Freq - [Everything [IS] Illegal](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [Listening’s Urgency](https://hardikurda.com/urgent-listening/): 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. - [ReAction - InAction - DistrAction](https://hardikurda.com/reaction-inaction-distraction/): Stefan Klaverdal – Khabat Abas – Hardi Kurda Exploratorium Berlin 2019 - [Broken Resonance](https://hardikurda.com/broken-resonance/): PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths, London 18 June 2019 Duo Moment, Hardi Kurda & Khabat Abas https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=12611 - [Hammam's Maqam](https://hardikurda.com/hammams-maqam/) - [The Latest News](https://hardikurda.com/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. 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, […] - [Illegal Score - Dukan Dam](https://hardikurda.com/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 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](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [Vibration of Books](https://hardikurda.com/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 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. […] - [Diagnosis Machine](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [Open Ensemble](https://hardikurda.com/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 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 […] - [The Conversation Date-Place](https://hardikurda.com/theconversation/): (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. Radiola Springs by Hardi Kurda - [The Buss](https://hardikurda.com/the-buss/) - [Sounding Map](https://hardikurda.com/sounding-map/) - [Between Me and The Other](https://hardikurda.com/between-me-and-the-other/) - [4 Solos](https://hardikurda.com/4-solos/) - [3 Solos](https://hardikurda.com/3-solos/) ## Pages - [Voice Notes](https://hardikurda.com/voice-notes-2/): VOICE NOTES COMING SOON! - [Found Scores](https://hardikurda.com/found-scores/): Found Scores: Listening in a time of Crisis In times of crisis—whether social, environmental, or existential—conventional musical forms often struggle to fully express the complexity of lived experience. In this thesis, I propose the Found Score as an approach to composing sonic landscapes and music that move beyond the limitations of traditional notation by engaging senses beyond hearing and sight through interactive methods. My methodology draws on ideas and materials from a range of disciplines, including medicine, handcraft, geography, literature, and media. I use materials such as medical technology, textiles, and cartographic tools to explore other modes of listening based […] - [Selected Works](https://hardikurda.com/) - [Press - Interview](https://hardikurda.com/press/): Beyond 1932 Residency – Archive Khanah – Kings College, London Navel-Gazers – Radiola Springs The Wire – Another Sky Festival – Your Resonance LeGuessWho? Reproduction Residency in Goa Sound Practices in the Global South – Artistic Practice The Markaz Review – Archiving the Sounds of Northern Iraq Columbia University – Open Journal – Urgent Listening COSMIS: The the Scenes in Slemani, Kurdistan-Iraq Hörspiel und feature radio Radio Art Residency, Halle – Interactive Antenna – Illegal Performance & The Construction of Legality - [Works](https://hardikurda.com/works/) - [Archive Khanah](https://hardikurda.com/archive-khanah/): www.khanah.org - [SPACE21](https://hardikurda.com/space21/): http://space21.org - [Bio - Contact](https://hardikurda.com/bio/): Short version  Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, holding PhD in music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and curator of SPACE21 Sound Gallery in Slemani. He uses radio frequency to explore noises that may have been considered illegal, abandoned, unheard, invisible, broken, distorted, untold, forgotten, or simply noises from nowhere, without a place or destination. He developed the concept of The Found Score to connect noises deeply with audiences to create Urgent Listening where listening became a force of necessity based on his listening’s experience when he illegally moved to Europe. Hardi’s work receive attentions from festivals, Universities and venues […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)