Author Archives: Korhan Erel
August and September Concerts, Exhibition, Theater
Korhan Erel teamed up with Ayşe Cansu Tanrıkulu to compose music and sound for the theater piece “Krampus” directed and written by Isabella Sedlak and Ensemble at Maxim Gorki Theater. The play premiered on August 27 after a five-week period … Continue reading
Ephemeral Fragments playing at Umland Expo at Domicil, Dortmund
Ephemeral Fragments’ improvised concert in the Umland Expo concerts series at Dortmund’s music venue Domicil on May 20, 2021 can be watched at the following YouTube link for the next two weeks. More info on Ephemeral Fragments
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Tagged cello, concert, contemporary improvisation, domicil, Free Improvisation, freie improvisierte musik, live, tubax, umland
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Obwegeser Instruments
With the kind support from Goethe-Institut’s Virtual Partnership Residency program, composer/musician Eda Er and Korhan Erel created the audio-visual piece “Obwegeser Instruments” based on musician/poet Şevket Akıncı’s poem “Ballard Trilogy”. The ten-minute piece is a collage of several shorter sound … Continue reading
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Tagged audiovisual, collaboration, composition, digital video, electronic music, remote collaboration, repurposed media, sound composition, synth, video art
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Two modular synth improvisations on film
I was asked to perform in two online concert series in 2021. The first one was Executive Summary curated and organized by Jeff Carey. My episode was aired on February 22, 2021 on Twitch. The second performance was for Digitizmir, … Continue reading
Musics For No Particular Occasion – New Digital Release
Between May and August 2020, I had a relatively productive period, finally shaking the pandemic-related frozenness and depression off. As I was, just like many others, mostly at home, I composed, experimented, improvised and recorded. Most of these pieces I … Continue reading
Solo improvisation @ Executive Summary online series
A video of me improvising on a modular synthesizer will be streamed at the Executive Summary online concert series on Monday, February 22nd. The series is organized and curated by Jeff Carey. Time information can be found on the visual … Continue reading
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Tagged 4ms, abstract, ALM Busy Circuits, avant-garde, çağdaş doğaçlama, özgür doğaçlama, concert, contemporary improvisation, controllers, deneysel müzik, doğaçlama, doğaçlama müzik, electronic, electronic music, electronics, elektronik müzik, elektronische musik, experimental music, Free Improvisation, freie improvisierte musik, imporvisierte musik, improvised music, Intellijel, Korg, Make Noise, modular synthesizer, Mutable Instruments
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Scarecrow and We’re all alike on Reboot.fm and Radia.fm
Reboot.fm and Radia.fm have recently featured two sound pieces of mine. “We’re all alike” was commissioned for the exhibition “Hactivate Yourself!” curated by Tuçe Erel at 1a space in Hong Kong in March 2019. It is a ‘remix’ of the … Continue reading
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Tagged absurd, absurdity, art, Berlin, Germany, hacking, hong kong, scarecrow, sound art, sound composition, sound installation, sound object
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Scarecrow, a sound object and installation
COVID-19 UPDATE: Due to current restrictions, all non-profit art spaces will be closed to public visits throughout November. The videos of the installation as well as the performances by Ute Wassermann and Alessandra Eramo can be viewed on YouTube at … Continue reading
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Tagged border politics, domination of nature, scarecrow, sound installation, territory, xenophobia
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October in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Augsburg
The concerts have returned… sort of… and Korhan has been playing concerts since mid-July in and out of Berlin. After playing with The Liz at the nano#drei Festival (Essen), a solo concert at Center for Prosecuted Arts (Solingen) and a … Continue reading
Concerts in July in Berlin
I will play the following concerts in Berlin in July. VERY EXCITED!!! On July 10th, I will get back together with The Liz for a stream concert at the Heroines of Sound Festival at Radialsystem. The Liz is a power … Continue reading
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