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.
Dr. Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, improviser, and researcher with a PhD in Music from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the founder of SPACE21, a platform for sound art and experimental music in Slemani, and Archive Khanah, an interactive sound archive project inspired by the philosophy of computer gaming, featuring coloured cassettes and recorded sounds from Kurdistan and Iraq.
Hardi's work explores radio noise and sonic traces often considered illegal, abandoned, unheard, invisible, broken, distorted, or forgotten — sounds without a place or destination. He developed the concept of “The Found Score”, which is an Urgent Listening method that navigates attention toward non-auditory senses. His listening’s approach rooted in his personal experience of migration and crisis during an illegal journey to Europe.
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.
