Collaborations

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.  The duo released two albums; “Wandering Rocks” (2023) and “Nine Stages of Not Arriving” (2023) // Website

SAVT is an improvisation trio (Tanbur- Merve Salgar, Cello-Z. Ayse Hatipoglu, Classical Kemence- Elif Canfeza Gündüz) based in Istanbul and Strasbourg, Berlin. Since their foundation in 2015 in Istanbul, 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. The duo released their debut album in 2018, “Birinci Hane”. The SAVT trio is among the first ensembles in Turkey to engage in free improvisation with traditional Ottoman/Turkish instruments. Their debut album was released by AK Müzik in Istanbul, and the group was featured in “Sound Dreams of Istanbul”, a documentary film about the improvisational music scene in Istanbul, directed by Anıl Eraslan.// Bandcamp

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, Jeremy Woodruff, Aslı Kobaner, Fulya Uçanok, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Merve Salgar // The ensemble released their debut album in 2019, “V. Dialogs”. Website