Also for the final performance in the framework of his residency at Radio Corax, Hardi Kurda collected individual stories about illegal actions and experiences with illegality. Based on conversations with the experimental Cellist Khabat Abas, the performance artist Sherko Abbas and an anonymous voice, as well as on the basis of his own experiences, the composer created a score for voice and radiola springs — a viola prepared with springs and radios that the artist plays himself. The vocal part is performed by the soprano and voice performer Nina Guo. For the interpretation of the score the performers met on air for a “telepathic” live performance on Radio Corax 95.9.

“Everything Illegal” Live Radio Performance /  June 7, 2020
with Hardi Kurda, Radiola Springs & Nina Guo, voice
and the narrations of: Khabat Abas, Sherko Abbas, Hardi Kurda & an anonymous voice

Conversation with Hardi Kurda on illegality and his radio project “Listening’s Urgency”

Illegality is awareness of a movement which doesn’t have a voice, which is not recognized, which is not normal. Illegality provocates and askes for something to change.

For the final performance as part of the Radio Art Residency, Kurda meets the soprano and voice performer Nina Guo for a telepathic live radio performance that invites listeners to follow them into the fringe areas of social order. What emerges is a radiophonic narration that draws on personal experiences from these marginal areas. It is based on conversations with the cellist Khabat Abas, the performance artist Sherko Abbas and a former smuggler, who have shared their stories with us, as well as on Kurdas own story.

Sunday, June 7, 8 pm
on Radio CORAX 95.9 Mhz in Halle
and via live-stream on RADIOCORAX.DE
as well as on reboot.fm / 88.4 MHz in Berlin

The live radio performance will be relayed by the radio festival Latitude on Air: Unsettling Power Relations.

On Friday, March 20, two guest artists of the Radio Art Residency meet for a concert night at Salon Villa Plagwitz in Leipzig.

André Damião II Narva 2

André Damião works between the fields of music and electronic arts and experiments with self-built mobile devices as means for itinerant sound art production. In 2019 he was the third artist-in-residence at Radio CORAX in Halle.

NARVA 2 Damião’s audio-visual instrument is part of a series of mobile music objects. Named after the GDR light bulb manufacturer, the hacked portable tv represents the genealogy of the portable means and its relation with programmed obsolescence, the means of production and their effects in daily life.

HARDI KURDA II Radiola Springs

Hardi Kurda is a composer, sound artist and improviser. His work reflects the listening in the time of crisis. In his performances and compositions he uses the radio as an instrument to explore the tonal material of the frequency band. Until May Kurda is guest artist at the Radio Art Residency in Halle.

RADIOLA SPRINGS Kurda’s prepared viola will have its first performance.

Radio Art Residency in Concert
Friday / March 20
doors: 8pm
Salon Villa Plagwitz / Karl-Heine-Str. 108
Leipzig

In cooperation with Seanaps