Contribution to the podcast associated with the BFA exam show "So great meeting you, again" in Bergen (2021): sampling and distortion of the sounds made and produced when working on an analogue damask loom.

Damask Loom Distortion; Podcast Contribution (2021)

Spatial installation loop. The amplified sound of a refrigerator placed too close to a body and a bed, in a distorted space too small for the reality of its body of sounds.

Refrigerator Reflection (loop) (2021)

SHORT extract from spatial sound loop "Refrigerator reflection".

FULL LENGTH LOOP LINK: https://soundcloud.com/idamaardhed/refrigerator-reflection-loop-2021?si=43047a952e1b4021b35ee5f00349b077

EXTRACT: Refrigerator Reflection

Extract from live performance executed in Mofti Hammam, Slemani Kurdistan, during the third Space21 residency.

Sound performance with harmonica, plastic tubes and FM-radio frequencies by artists: Ida C. Maardhed, Klaas Hübner & Hardi Kurda.

Hammam's Maqam live performance Slemani, Kurdistan

Loop consisting of five deconstructed field recordings:
A deep exhale; personal sphere
A tunnel construction site; Bergen, Norway
A hunger strike speech against violenca machista; Placa del Sol, Madrid, Spain
A tourist bar a couple of months after EU border lock down deal with Libya; Lampedusa, Italy.
A street market; Sulaymaniyah, (Iraqi) Kurdistan

Exhib. in installation with woven work at Bergen Kjott, 2019.

SOME SUM Sound Loop

Sound installation made during the site specific Sound Art Residency Space21, in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan). Two sound works:

1. NOISE mixdown from field recordings at Mofti Hammam in Slemani, referring to the sound environment of the city in general and the hammam in particular.

2. TEXTpiece consisting of thunder and trilingual word rain from a text based on meetings and interviews in Slemani, Kurdistan. 
Voices: Ida C. Maardhed and Niga Salam.

Hammam Kevok 03 TEXTpiece Mixdown

Hammam Kevok 01 NOISE Mixdown

EXCERPT from the SOME SUM SOUND LOOP (2019)

Deconstructed field recordings of public gatherings, breathings and construction sites.
Exhib. in installation with woven work at Bergen Kjott, 2019.

FULL LENGTH LINK:
https://soundcloud.com/idamaardhed/some-sum-sound-loop

SOME SUM Sound Loop EXCERPT

SHORT EXCERPT MIX of works from sound installation made during the site specific Sound Art Residency Space21, at Mofti Hammam in Sulaymaniyah Iraqi Kurdistan).

EXCERPTS FROM (in order): 
text piece
noise mixdown

FULL LENGTH LINK: https://soundcloud.com/idamaardhed/sets/hammamkevok-sound-installation

Ida C. Maardhed

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