Releases

“Wandering Rocks” by iKKi Duo (2023) Inspired by the geological phenomenon with the same name, Wandering Rocks is a texture-based work that explores movement within stillness. The work is 30 minutes and is divided into six sections, with each section is approximately five minutes. The process was a co-authored back-and-forth response process, where each section was composed by one of the duo members (except for the 5th section, composed together). Through this process, the duo remains receptive to creating sonic fields inspired by one another’s sonic approaches, and embrace unexpected elements.

Released in August, 2023 by Syrphe Label

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iKKi Duo’s album Nine Stages of Not Arriving is a duo comprovisation project with cello, objects, piano and electronics. The duo uses contemporary playing techniques with objects, and explores various sound-fields of timbre, texture, gesture, rhythm, sound, silence, pitch and noise. The album comprises nine miniatures, making a playful allusion to the suite form. Instead of setting up to arrive at places, the miniatures explore sounds ‘in moments’. Each moment is a situation, where the duo responds with and through their bodies and the relation-scape they inhabit. The title of the pieces give clues to the sound acts and gestures that are being realized. The form playfully invites listeners to listen to the miniatures as individual singular pieces, as well as entangled with others, as a unified whole. Released: Ada Müzik, Istanbul . Cover Photo: Engin İriz.

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The title of the album “Birinci Hane” (meaning ‘first home’ or ‘first grade’) and the track names inspired by the concepts of ‘home’ (ev, hane), ‘space’ (mekân) and ‘makam’. All tracks on the album are improvised recordings by SAVT trio Tanbur | Merve Salgar, Violoncello | Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Classical Kemenche | Elif Canfeza Gündüz, except “On the Fly” composed by Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu. Released by AK Music, 2021, Istanbul.

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MAERSK is an electroacoustic composition based on a memory of a scenery during my daily commute with thousands of other people as we travel across the Bosphorus each day. If you consider passing by the biggest freight dock in the city where thousands of ca rgo containers piled on top of each other, what you see is collection boxes with a collage of different colors, brand labels, company logos from all around the world, many from unknown origins. As the spectator, you can focus on each single piece or consid er the whole as one big object.This piece focuses on the vibrations when lots of different sound fragments come on top and interact with each other. Mainly consisting of minor timbral changes, it invites the listener for a closer experience, offering a temporal perception shift with long duration sounds. You can focus on each fragment or conceive the whole as a single sound object. MAERSK was commissioned and released by 7K! Berlin in the compilation album ‘String Layers’ in 2020.

Released: 7K! Berlin, 2020

Include in compilation album ‘String Layers’

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Klank.ist Ensemble first album focused on live performance, we attempted to nourish the dialogs through which we made our sounds and voices heard. The notions of performativity, gesturality and motion contributed to our creative processes in the context of sound recording.Through the dialogs we established during those studio recordings, we valued the fluid manifestations of activity and passivity. We were affected by each other, and we affected one another. Within the recording process, we intended to open a sonic window of ‘listening’ and ‘being heard’ while attributing to Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, at a time in which every silenced voice needs to be heard and reintroduced through dialogs. We hope that you share with us what you have heard through this window, so we could embark together on further journeys.

Released by Klank.ist 2021

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Deep Love/Play is for cello, objects, electronics, field recordings. Composed 2023 during theSchiesslhaus Air Residency, Kollnburg, Germany. Exhibited as a sound installation Altes Spital, Viechtach, Germany. A second version re-composed for the Bilgi New Music Festival 14.Performed in the concert ‘Elektroakustik Kesişmeler’ on 18 November 2023 at Arter Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Ferry Dream is based on a memory of a scenery during my daily commute with thousands of other people as we travel across the Bosphorus each day. If you consider passing by the biggest freight dock in the city, where cargo containers piled on top of each other, what you see is collection boxes with a collage of different colors and company logos from all around the world, many from unknown origins. You can imagine focusing on each of the colorful boxes, or consider the whole a big object.

Art Cover: Mariia Mytrofanova

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Dreamworks/Rüya işler is an experimental music ensemble that is part of a long-term documentary project based on the sounds of Istanbul and the relationships between dream, improvisation and film by Anıl Eraslan. Released by: Rumi Sounds, Berlin, 2022

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KRUSH is an experimental duo GADZ ‘s release from Istanbul; Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu and Gökhan Deneç on instruments and electronics. Digital Released, 2020

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Merve Salgar and Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, electroacoustic duo release during lockdowns. Recorded in Kurtuluş and Tarabya, Istanbul.

Released by Klank.ist, 2020

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Potlatch is an electronic dance piece included in the album of the groove compositions of Istanbul Technical University MIAM 2016 Computer Music class.

released January 11, 2017, Istanbul

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Hostel 47, is a noise piece included in the album of the noise collective of Istanbul Technical University MIAM 2016.

released 2016, Istanbul