Performance at Eavesdropping Event Series
Performance Eavesdropping Series filmed in the chapel at oxford House
Tagged with: 2021
Author: Khabat Abas
Cello-Ness
The idea come from those experiences I have had with the cello my relationship to it has changed, and this change has also affected my technique and my way of playing. I have become more able to explore the sounds …
Skin cello
The idea behind the Skin Cello was to deconstruct the power of the traditional cello as an instrument, to change relationship to it, and also to create more sound possibilities through the use of different construction materials. Khabat’s designed the Skin Cello as a …
Bombshell cello
Photo by Liron Zisser This Cello is made from a bombshell, cut and welded into the shape of a conventional Western cello. Bought in the bazaar of Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan-Iraqi, the shell is transformed from a military object into an …
Hand preparation
This project is a hand preparation with an object in order to struggle or paralyse my hand movement.This preparation reflects as a kind of socio-political and cultural paralysis. Click here
Feedback cello
The feedback cello is a collaboration project with composer and sound artist Hardi Kurda in 2014. the idea was to use the cello as a resonance box for five small speaker.
Safety Pins
This preparation is such a way to create connections of memory, using objects that have a personal resonance (for example ‘dressing’ her instruments in safety pins like those her mother used to use when she sewed clothes ). or that …