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We have recorded our album in two days of studio improvisation sessions in Istanbul. Our main motivation was to explore some new sound possibilities around/above the Turkish makam music heritage. During our recording session, except for the piece ‘On the fly,’ the only predetermined aspect was the timing. We have recorded one shot of several tracks with different timings and instrument combinations (solos, duos, trios). The piece ‘Bükül’ is an excepted one; cello and classical kemenche improvise together, and a separate solo improvisation by Tanbur overlapped on it. We have shaped our album idea by referring to the tradition of Turkish music. 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, except “On the Fly” composed by Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu.

We would like to thank Cevdet Erek and Tolga Balcı for their inspiration in this collection as an album; to Şevket Akıncı, Anıl Eraslan and Stéphane Clor for their guidance on the release process. Special thanks to Laçin Şahin for recorded and mixed, Berk Falay and Oğuz Öz for their recording assistant, ITU MIAM Recording Studios, Gökhan Deneç for Mastering, Beste Türkön for CD Face Design, Yula Baskı Atölyesi for CD Cover Design and Print, and Başak Erdem (@lines_dots_) for the final handwriting touches.

Released on February 21, 2021

Tanbur | Merve Salgar, Violoncello | Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Classical Kemenche | Elif Canfeza Gündüz, Recorded and mixed | Laçin Şahin, Recording assistant | Berk Falay, Oğuz Öz, Recording studio | ITU MIAM Recording Studios, Mastering | Gökhan Deneç, CD Cover Design | Beste Türkön, Album Cover Art Work | Yula Baskı

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Wintergarden 28 Agust 2019

Field Kitchen Academy is an interdisciplinary educational residency program in Wüsten-Buchholz, aims at transcending the borders between research and practice; beyond forms and formats. In the Field Kitchen Academy’s listening room, you will be listening to a series of recordings that act as a catalogue and a log book of the residency curated under the title of Silence with the Consent of Sound. Instead of a printed catalogue, what you will hear is the audio catalogue to that gives space to Field Kitchen Academy’s every participant and working session leaders in 2019. During the course of the residency (16 August – 11 September 2019) each participant is assigned a particular day to make a 90 seconds of recording. The recordings had to be made on that exact given date, and reflect how they perceive that particular day at the residency from their own perspective.