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last point in the South - geographically Africa
Sound extends + expands all - horizons and ideas, feelings and notions, spaces and borders, as well as time
radio +
performance
Hardi Kurda - Hacked Radios
Hardi Kurda is a composer, sound artist, improviser, researcher and curator. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London, and founder of the Space21 festival in Kurdistan-Iraq. He has performed internationally, including in Germany (also in collaboration with the group Adapter), Lebanon, Sweden, and London. Hardi’s compositions contain evocative and unusual sounds. Among other things, the artist uses radio to explore electromagnetic frequencies as sound material and was part of the Radio Art Residency in Halle (Germany). Hardi Kurda not only composes classical acoustic and experimental electronic music, but also develops pieces in which music interacts with different art forms in new art spaces to create new listening experiences. He uses found scores, a new listening medium he has developed, like the pattern of a traditional Kurdish carpet. He has organized unusual sound art exhibitions in public spaces, such as public buses or old hammams (oriental bathhouses with special acoustics). Hardi’s latest piece for electroacoustic music was presented at the Slemani-Kurdistan Listening Biennial as part of the Global Listening Biennial 2021.