Muyassar Kurdi / Eric Arn

Muyassar Kurdi is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, photography, and film. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. A versatile improviser, Muyassar currently focuses her attention on interweaving homemade electronic instruments and sculpture into her vocal and dance performances, stirring a plethora of emotions from her audience members through vicious noise, ritualistic chants, and meditative movements. Kurdi studied voice and dance with legendary vocalist-dancer Meredith Monk via The House Foundation, as well as learning the Japanese tradition of Butoh with Tadashi Endo, director of the Butoh Center MAMU. She also explored Butoh with Mexican master of the form Diego Piñon among others in Chicago, NYC, Berlin, and Vienna. She currently studies with Juilliard faculty member Janis Brenner, member of the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble.

Eric Arn lives in Vienna and plays guitar. So sober and unpretentious, the state of things could be summarized. The musical biography of the American, however, goes back to the 1980s: Arn was born, a. Member of the Crystalized Movements before he founded his longtime band project, Primordial Undermind, and his vinyl solo debut on Byron Coley's Label Feeding Tube (previously released 2013 with "Points Of Fissure" on Feathered Coyote) Coincidence. You know each other, for a long time. The music is correspondingly comprehensive and diverse. - Holger Adam, Skug