This interview with sound artist and composer Hardi Kurda, ‘Urgent Listening,’ is the latest in the conversation series Countersonics: Radical Sonic Imaginaries, hosted by Gascia Ouzounian. It explores themes of urgent listening, tactical listening, and illegal listening; covert radio; and finding scores in everyday situations and environments. Thank you to Hardi Kurda and to the editors at Columbia University’s new peer-reviewed, open access journal openwork journal, which explores interdisciplinary and experimental music and sound art, for the opportunity to share this work.