Concert
Khabat Abas
Traces of Else Marie Pade
Khabat Abas © Trapp
Working across music, sound, and performance, the experimental cellist and composer Khabat Abas investigates time, space, and memory through everyday sounds, music, and noise. Moving beyond traditional norms, the Kurdistan-Iraqi artist crafts cellos from diverse materials, composes and improvises, and incorporates her body into performance. The concert will bring her music into resonance with the work of Else Marie Pade.
Through musical improvisation, her exercises of echoes and resistance trace a path toward acoustic exploration. Delving into how we experience sound, particularly across different geopolitical contexts, Abas seeks to intersect political realities with personal expression, challenging established systems of value, discipline, and control. In this 30-minute live performance, experimentation becomes an act of resistance, and listening transforms into a shared experience of imagination.
A KW Institute for Contemporary Art event in cooperation with Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik
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