Close Encounters: SLEMANI SOUNDS Hardi Kurda & Ernst Maréchal
Schedule
Fri Nov 29 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium | Antwerp, AN
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After a short break, we return with the audio-visual performance and installation 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔, featuring 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚 and 𝐄𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫é𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥 on Friday, 29 November 2024, at 19:00. In September 2023 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔— alongside local historian 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐪— wandered the streets of Slemani (Kurdistan, North Iraq) to capture the movements of craftspeople and to record the noises they produce. These craftspeople’s lives and everyday labour create the rhythm of the city — a polyphonic sonic richness.
The project is an ode to the diversity of sound in a contemporary Iraqi city. It is a sound ethnography of a place, made in relation with its people who are simultaneously senders and receivers within a shared resonant space. It takes a pulse of the politics of a place where craft is disappearing due to encroaching capitalism.
How do the producers of these work-specific “soundtracks” listen to the daily soundscape to which they also contribute? How is the sonic output of the city degrading in the face of changing and dissolving working techniques and traditional labour in general?
A first presentation took place during the 𝑺𝑷𝑨𝑪𝑬 21 festival for experimental music in Slemani, in April 2024. It was also a time to revisit the people who had been documented the previous September, in their habitats or workshops, and to play back the recordings that had been made of them, on location. This shared listening experience of the previous recording was recorded again, to commemorate a common recollection.
For the third chapter of 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 presents an audio-visual performance and installation, a new one-off edit of Slemani Sounds bringing into dialogue — as an act of feedback — the sounds and images recorded during both visits. 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚 and 𝐄𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫é𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥 give an improvisational concert, intertwining the sounds of the installation with live sounds, complemented by recordings of their previous Slemani/Space 21 duo performances.
The performance starts at 20:00 and lasts 25 min.
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Realised with the support of: Flanders — State of the Art
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Social Recordings is PhD trajectory in the Arts @ RITCS School of Arts/VUB
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Where is it happening?
Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium, Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerpen, België,Antwerp, BelgiumEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
