ohrenhoch presents on Sunday 20 and 27 November 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
(2014, audio/visual piece)
by Khaled Kaddal (Egypt)
Curator, loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond
Khaled Kaddal on 'Dry/Friction':
“Dry/Friction" is a 3mins audio/visual piece, questioning the political notion of the Microphone. The latest symbolises a certain authority that has a power to choose what sounds would be louder than others. By dragging it over different surfaces, constant hits and frictions result sort of drones and noises. By questioning the conceptual bonds between sound of politics and politics of sounds, the piece is experimenting with the role of a microphone from a tool of amplification to a musical instrument.
Audio Field Report no. 56 / Soundactivism 35: Interview with Khaled Kaddal by Knut Remond. Limited edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).
Audio Field Reports nos. 1-55 / soundactivism 1-34: Interviews since January 2014 with the artists, concept and design by Knut Remond.
Khaled Kaddal is an Egyptian interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician. Currently based in London, pursuing his studies on Sound Art. His works focus on the aesthetics of sound with the interest in expanded listening and the socio-political aspects of sound and music.
Scoping on the perceptions and the thresholds of listening, by questioning the radical margin between consonance and dissonance, silence and noise. Interested in enlarging the understanding of oriental aesthetic by taking it to a post-music territory, where the musical structures are de- composed to the notions of sounds. With the accompany of visuals, his performances use electronic and acoustic instruments to form a sonic narration, to dance the mind instead of the body.