Collaborations
iKKi Duo
Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu and Fulya Uçanok are both performers, improvisors, composers and artist researchers. Both began with a conservatory education, and later set-off to explore contemporary, experimental and non-conventional sound worlds. Their paths crossed in 2016 at Istanbul. Since then, they have been hooked on sounding together/Bandcamp&Instagram&Website
SAVT
SAVT is an improvisation trio (Tanbur- Merve Salgar, Cello-Z. Ayse Hatipoglu, Classical Kemence- Elif Canfeza Gündüz) based in Istanbul and Strasbourg. Since their foundation in 2015, the trio has formed a repertoire bringing together improvisation and contemporary written music. Consisting of tanbur, classical kemençe, and violoncello, SAVT seeks new ways to create a unique musical language that expands the taksim tradition and encourage new music composition for traditional instruments/Bandcamp&Instagram
Klank.ist Ensemble
Klank.ist ensemble is a meeting spot for improviser/composers since 2019. Participants experience creative processes that ranges from improvisation to individual composition, with different weights of decision-making through collective production frameworks such as semi-planned improvisation, comprovisation, open form and free improvisation. Common principles such as transformativity of the process, re-negotiating hierarchy, aesthetic flexibility and diversity, openness to interdisciplinary collaborations aims both continuity and outward interactivity. Members/ Eda Er, Aslı Kobaner, Fulya Uçanok, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Merve Salgar/Website&To Listen&Bandcamp