Live trio improvisation:
Hardi Kurda – violine
Tilly Coulton – flute
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder / objects
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash
Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, holding PhD in music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and curator of SPACE21 Sound Gallery in Slemani. He uses radio frequency to explore 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 concept of The Found Score to connect noises deeply with audiences to create Urgent Listening where listening became a force of necessity based on his listening’s experience when he illegally moved to Europe. Hardi’s work receive attentions from festivals, Universities and venues across Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa such as PRS New Music Biennial in the UK at South Bank Center, Another Sky Festival, Shubbak Festival, Café OTO (London), Sound Argument at Leiden University and Orpheus institute (Ghent), Tarkib (Baghdad) University of Santa Barbara (California), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Borderline Festival (Athens), and MaerzMusik, Soundings ADK (Berlin), Nomos Museum (Gdansk), Reproduction (Goa), CHR (Cape Town) Irtijal festival (Beirut). He has been granted various residencies and grants including Beyond1932 (London), LeGuessWho? Festival (Utrecht), Radio Art Residency (Halle, Germany), Swedish Arts Grant Committee, Melos Collective (Vilnius). His recent solo album Radiola Springs. VGR Culture Grant in Sweden described him as… “Hardi bridges diverse musical traditions with socially committed compositions that blend electro-acoustics and chamber music, enriching the classical repertoire for our times.”
https://hardikurda.bandcamp.
Tilly Coulton, a versatile flautist, improviser, and educator from Devon, England, is deeply immersed in the world of contemporary and experimental music. She honed her skills during her undergraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is now coming to the end of her master’s degree at the Royal College of Music. Tilly has played alongside orchestras such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as winning first prize in the RCS Concerto Competition and Recital Prize for Woodwind. Driven by a love for Avant Garde and the unusual, Tilly actively engages with contemporary and experimental works. She has collaborated with composers to premiere pieces such Erin Thomson’s “Infinite Kaleidoscope” for flute and electronics, and Oliver Hawker’s “Good News Behind Closed Eyes” for flute and upright saw. Tilly plays regularly with London Improvisers Orchestra, is a member of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s NEXT Programme and serves as principal flute in the contemporary ensemble Standard Issue.
https://youtu.be/NwyxgMOKXY4?
Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres and monikers since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). His pieces and performances have been aired on the radio internationally, BBC Radio 3 and the Ambrosia Rasputin show on Resonance FM. After numerous electronica releases and activity in the 90s and 2000s, he now plays using acoustic sources (eg harmonium, tenor recorder, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective and regularly attends Eddie Prevost London improvisers workshop. His collaborators include Phil Durrant, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff and Iris Colomb, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Dominic Lash, Rachel Musson, Keisuke Matsui, Tom Ward, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum, Alan Wilkinson and Sue Lynch.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
