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| Gérald Kurdian |
Gérald Kurdian, performer, songwriter and radio-artist lives in Paris. He studied visual arts in Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy before taking part in the EX.E.R.CE 07 contemporary dance program directed by Mathilde Monnier (Centre Choregraphique de Montpellier) and Xavier Le Roy. Since then, he collaborated with Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Thiago Guedes, Eleanor Bauer, Andros Zins-Browne, Daniel Dobbels, Carole Perdereau and the Club des 5 (Mickaël Phelippeau, Virginie Thomas). His musical performances have been shown in various places such as Le Plateau / Frac idf, Le Lieu Unique, Point Éphémère, La Villette, Lelabo, le Centre Clark (Montréal), Les Louvrais - Scène Nationale de Cergy, Théâtre 95, Maison Populaire, Abbaye de Maubuisson, le Centre chorégraphique de Montpellier, les Subsistances, Palais de tokyo, Festival Uzes Danse 07 or during the Sommer bar / Tanz im August 07 festival. In 2006, he collaborated with the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique de France Culture and produced Je suis putain, a radio-documentary constructed in collaboration with female prostitutes. He also directed several radio projects exploring sound performativity and contemporary arts critique (Divergence fm, Radio RGB, Betonsalon, La Vitrine). Between july and december 08, he took part in 6M1L (6 months 1 location), a research program initiated by Xavier Le Roy and Bojana Cvejic and in collaboration with Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Juan Dominguez, Jefta Van Dinther, Chrysa Parkinson and Eleanor Bauer. In this frame, he prepared Di eye ene ci i, a lo-fi radiophonic musical on dance theory co-produced by the Atelier de Création Radiophonique and the SACD. During the night, he composes love-songs for This is the hello monster !* his avant-folk solo band. *This is the hello monster ! could be, the north wind and the fantastic animal, the tranquille deepness of a Brian Eno, a unicorn and a black cat, a zombie sleeping in a synthetizer or the song of the palmtrees on a volcano island model. |
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