Author Archives: Korhan Erel
Berlin premiere of “Soundtracking”
My piece “Soundtracking” is a composition that serves as an imaginary soundtrack for a horror/sci-fi film that could have been done in the 1980s. The piece was commissioned by the synthesizer trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz in 2021. The trio will premiere the … Continue reading
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Tagged analog synth, analog synthesizer, Berlin, commission, composition, concert, digital synthesizer, electroacoustic, electronic music, electronic trio, ensemble, ensemble music, experimental music, film, horror, imaginary film, Martin Lorenz, modular synth, modular synthesizer, new music, Sebastian Berweck, Silke Lange, soundtrack, synthesizer, synthesizer trio
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Concerts in İzmir, Berlin and (Bucharest) in November
Korhan Erel goes international this month with concerts in İzmir, Berlin and Bucharest (postponed to 2022). The first concert is a solo electronic improvisation at the digitİZMir 7 Festival curated by composer/musician Mehmet Can Özer/Yaşar Üniversity in Izmir, Turkey. Korhan … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Bucharest, concert, electroacoustic, electronic music, ensemble, Free Improvisation, Germany, improvisation, new music, Romania, solo concert, Turkey, İzmir
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Mariá Portugal’s EROSÃO and Masterclass at Stapeltor, Duisburg
Korhan Erel is going to perform in the second concert of Mariá Portugal’s EROSÃO series at Stapeltor in Duisburg. This series will evolve around Maria’s 2021 album EROSÃO. The concert with Korhan and Liz Kosack (synthesizer) will be improvisations based … Continue reading
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Tagged concert, drums, Duisburg, electroacoustic, electronics, erosao, Free Improvisation, improvisation, improvised music, sampling, synthesizer
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Concerts in Münster and Bonn
Korhan Erel will play a live solo soundtrack concert to the sci-fi cult film “Them!” (1954) on October 13, 2021 at Cuba – Black Box* in Münster. The concert will last the entire duration of the film and will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonn, cinema, concert, echtzeit, echtzeitmusik, electroacoustic music, festival, film, Free Improvisation, improvised music, münster, nord-rhein westphalen, north-rhine westfalia, realtime composition, science fiction, solo, soundtrack, string ensemble, strings, trio, umland
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The Liz presents “No Comet”, October 8-9, 2021
The Liz areLiz AllbeeLiz Korhan ErelLiz Kosack The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, due to the impact of a massive comet or asteroid approximately 66 million … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, comet, concert, dinosaur, electroacoustic, evolution, Free Improvisation, installation, schillerkiez, sentient being, Sowieso, speculative, top
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Video Interview on Florilegio
I was recently approach by the blog Florilegio for a video interview. Florilegio is an independent blog covering experimental and underground music with an inclusive atypical approach. Their aim is to shift the traditional focus from men to wom人n, from … Continue reading
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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
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