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Quartet

Quartet (2021)

For  for Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet and Viola

Written for and Performed by MotoContrario

Visage

Visage (2021)

For Large Ensemble

The Shephar's Song

The Shepherd's Song (2021)

For Solo Alto Flute

 

Written for and Performed by Susanne Peters
(Finalist for the Balkan Composer Competition in Prishtina 2021)

New Nature (2021)

For Baritone and Fixed Media

Written for and Performed by Tyler Bouque

New Nature
Music for Ensemble

Music for Ensemble (2020)

For flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, violin, viola and violoncello

Written for and Performed by XX. jahrhundert (2020)

The piece is made up of eight chords which are employed as harmonic sections specifically derived from a limited microtonal pitch space. The pitch spaceis a combination of two distorted harmonic spectrums, one major second apart from each other. The frequencies are quantized to quarter and 1/8 tones, thus each of these chords contain a number of intervals that can be perceived differently depending on the context. That is what drives the piece forward harmonically. A variety of expressive qualities are implicit in textural and timbral layers and they unfold with respect to the nature of this pseudo-spectral idea.

Layers

Layers Into Rural Unconsciousness (2020)

Fixed Media

(Higher Order Ambisonics)
 

(Binaural Audio)

Heavyweight

Heavyweight (2020)

For Wind Quintet and Live Electronics

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Improvisation 1 (2020)

For Bassoon and Live Electronics

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Bassoon: Deniz Aslan

An excerpt from the video recording of live performance (low quality audio)

Improvizaiton 1
Omaggio

Omaggio alla storia (2020)

For piano, percussion and electronics

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Written for and Performed by Amy Salsgiver and Müge Hendekli

Snake

Snake (2020)

For Amplified Contrabass Clarinet 

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Written for  Nina Janßen-Deinzer

Moments from Silence (2019)

For flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello
 

Written for and Performed by Oerknal (2019)

Silence has no identity. It doesn't have a timbral profile, it doesn't have a pitch organisation nor is it constructed on a scale or a row. It has the dynamics we imagine and has a spectromorphology as complex as our mental state at the moment.


It is what that has not started and it is what remains.
It is neither null nor 4'33.
It is as concrete as air.
It is coherent as it does not seek coherency.
There is always silence; as there is always sound.

Moments from Silence
Overture

Overture for Itself (2019)

For Large Orchestra

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Tape Music (2019)

Fixed Media (Stereo)

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Tape Music
Mahal

Window (Mahal) (2019)

Site Specific Sound Installation

For an old cassette player, an old stereo and a computer with old monitor and speakers
Collaboration of 7 composers/sound artists


Commissioned by Evliyagil Museum/Klasik Keyifler
Exhibited at Evliyagil Museum (Ankara, 2019)

Mahal is conceived as a site specific sound project for Müze Evliyagil. Even though it contains diverse elements such as musical performance and sound installation, it aims to provide the audience with a collective sound experience. Works, that are formed upon a conceptual basis thought out by seven composers, occupy their own spaces  simultaneously in a similar fashion that art objects are placed in a museum. Each work penetrates into the other by interfering with the space of the other. The impossibility of containing sound in a closed space, became a common starting point rather than an obstacle for the project. For a good hour, this collective sound world that penetrates every corner inside and spills outside, aims to add a new layer to the memory that the space has created up to now. Unlike a musical concert, Mahal does not require any ideal position to experience. The impossibility of perceiving sounds of Mahal as a whole, encourages listeners to draw their own individual paths, ultimately offering them a unique and subjective experience.

 

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Window (My individual part)

 

Three sound systems from different periods with different technologies which convey different listening practices, simultaneously play three separate music which are “idiomatically” composed using the same material while taking the sound qualities, characteristics, conventions and connotations of each system into consideration.

By creating a multi-dimensional counterpoint, the work intends to break the linearity and open a new window to these sound worlds.

The looping video on the computer

An outside view of the computer

An excerpt from the overall sound in the museum

Mahal
00:00 / 08:32

Excerpts from individual sound files

Tape
00:00 / 04:57
Stereo
00:00 / 07:00
Computer
00:00 / 04:47
Gri

Gri narrates an effort to reach “the white” from a black plane, in a black and white dominant world. Such that, it is never noticed that in the light of the new comprehensions reached as a consequence of every attempt, more and more into “the gray” it is submerged. Logic starts to fall apart in moments that hope becomes despair - and in the end of the process, in an absolutely gray world, there we float, unable to distinguish any contrast. I, in this piece, try to examine in musical matters and cause and effect relations if one can reach a point of awareness in a chaotic world only consisting of intersections and interactions of logic, as a result of the pursuit of their silhouettes which reveal themselves occasionally. I aim to exhibit a whole as broken into fragments, which is to be understood not only by observing from a plane of time, but from any aspect.

For string quartet


Performed by Arditti Quartet (2019)
Performed by Hezarfen Ensemble (2018)

Performance by Arditti Quartet

Performance by Hezarfen Quartet

Gri (2018)

Ozymandias

Ozymandias (2018)

For Soprano, Flute, Trombone, Percussion, Piano, Viola and Contrabass

Influences

Influences (2017)

For Solo Violin


Performed by Özge Erdem (2018)
 

Paranoia

Paranoia (2016)

For blockflute, panflute and vibraphone
 

Written for and Performed by Black Pencil (2016)

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