Mercury Over Maps 24

I’m pleased to announce a the 24th edition of Mercury Over Maps
at The Hill Station Cafe in Brockley!

The evening features 3 sets –
a trio between Douglas Benford, Tilly Coulton & Hardi Kurda, a duo between Viv Corringham and Lawrence Casserley and a solo by Phil approach.

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HARDI KURDA, TILLY COULTON, DOUGLAS BENFORD

Hardi Kurda – violin / electronics

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 Issue.

Douglas Benford – tenor recorder / objects / appA

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 and Sue publications.

Her latest albums “Soundwalkscapes” on Flaming Pines label have been well received; the Wire wrote that “Corringham voices the depth of decades.

“a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (The Wire)

LINKS:

website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8EPXocso-A

(Viv Corringham solo improvisation at Iklectik, London)

https://listeningbiennial.net/listen

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/an-audio-introduction-to-viv-corringham

Lawrence Casserley (signal processing)

“…the certainty is that Lawrence Casserley can be more innovative and creative than many of the ringleaders of the young generation of ‘laptoppers’.” Rui Eduardo Paes

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Casserley’s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on more than forty releases; he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan. Current collaborations include Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Philipp Wachsmann, Trevor Taylor, Gianni Mimmo, Martin Mayes, Nicola Baroni, Martin Hackett, Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Jeffrey Morgan, Harri Sjöström, Yoko Miura, Mia Zabelka and Viv Corringham. He is a regular member of Oxford ” target=”_blank” title=”artists.

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