Sunday 5 February 2023, 8pm
A pleasure as ever to welcome back Duo Moment, the project of Kurdistan-Iraq experimental, free-improvisation duo Khabat Abas and Hardi Kurda, this time joined by Israeli-born Swedish musician, artist and left-wing activist, Dror Feiler.
Khabat Abas is an experimental cellist, improviser, and composer from Iraqi Kurdistan. She moves freely between artistic discipline and possibilities. Her works are inspired by a broad collection of methods, including noise, improvisation, and narrative storytelling as individual approaches. Therefore, she searches for unheard sounds or undiscovered spaces. Khabat is probably best known for her adapted cello and improvisational work exploring extended techniques, through which she started developing pieces that respond to the objects that are surrounding her or to her childhood memories. In her practice, she raises questions about what is out of bounds, raising the possibilities of sounds that cannot be controlled – in contrast to traditional musical values.
Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, improviser, and founder of SPACE21, a sound art and experimental music platform in Slemani, and the Archive Khanah, an interactive sound archive project using the philosophy of computer gaming technology. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths College, the University of London. He explores radio 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 notion of "The Found Score" an instrument as a listening medium, using everyday materials to reimagine listening experiences through engaging other senses based on his listening experience in a crisis when he immigrated illegally to Europe. www.hardikurda.com
Composer, saxophonist, artist and political activist. Born in 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel and resident in Sweden since 1973. Dror Feiler has performed and recorded with orchestras and ensembles as well as as a soloist in Sweden, Russia, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Israel, Palestine, Netherlands, Hungary, Norway, Germany, Japan, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Brazil and Argentina. Composed music for for Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bavarian Radio Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra, Neo, Krommata Percussion Ensemble, Kwartludium, Ascolta, Contrechamps, Ensemble New Music Tallinn, Vertixsonora, Stavanger symfoniorkester och grekiska radioorkestern, Black Page Orchestra (Vienna)
Dror Feiler's music has been performed at: Donaueschingen Musiktage, Hudderseld musikfestival, Wien Modern, Tectonics Festival, Musikprotokoll, Steirischer herbst
Founder (1976) of the improvisation group LOKOMOTIV KONKRET.
Founder (1983) and artistic director of THE TOO MUCH TOO SOON ORCHESTRA.
