Field Concert Series
A gig held at St Anne's Church, St Leonards Road, Greenbank, Bristol, BS5 6JN on Friday 5th June. Doors are at 19:00 with the event starting at 19:30. The event finishes at 22:00.
Duo Moment
Khabat Abbas (solo)
Hardi Kurda (solo)
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Robin Foster (rummaging)
Matt Davis (trumpet and preparations)
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Duo Moment is an experimental, free-improvisational duo by Hardi Kurda and Khabat Abas. The duo focuses on the moment when sounds emerge through interaction, reflection, reaction, and interruption. Hardi and Khabat aim to share their experience of sound-making with the audience and to explore a world of sounds and noises from East to West.
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.
www.khabatabas.com
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.
Robin Foster is a musician and performer based in Bristol, UK. His work encompasses ideas relating to performance art, improvisation, physicality, sound art and noise music.
Through the performance practice Rummaging, he uses found objects to explore ideas relating to viscerality in performance, and the relationship of humans to the things we surround ourselves with.
Active as a drummer and percussionist, predominantly in the field of free improvisation, he has recorded and released electronic music that makes use of noise, found sounds, field recordings and custom-made synthesis software. Recent recorded work includes the solo album Junkpolitik released on Fractal Meat Records and session work (percussion and rummaging) on Ed Dowie's album The Obvious I. Recent live performances have included London’s Cafe OTO and Ochiai-Soup in Tokyo.
An early member of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble, he had a longstanding duo with Henry Collins, with whom he developed the performance practice rummaging.