Author Archives: Korhan Erel

About Korhan Erel

Korhan Erel is an electronic musician, improviser and sound designer based in Berlin. Their music covers free improvisation, conceptual sound performances as well as structured and composed pieces as well as music for dance, theater and video art. They perform solo, duo and group performances with improvisers, jazz musicians, dancers, and in orchestras. They have shown several sound installations in art spaces in Turkey, Germany and Hong Kong. They have ten CD and several digital releases. They play concerts across Europe, Middle- East, Southeast Asia and North America

Debut with Liudmila Siewerski at Forgotten Islands

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Korhan Erel

New media artist Liudmila Siewerski and I met at Cafe Babette in October 2022 at my performance there. We stayed in contact, talked, rehearsed and will now perform at the same venue on November 16 at Forgotten Islands, an evening … Continue reading →

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7 Habits of Highly Miserable People at Audiovisionen

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Korhan Erel

On August 31, 2023, I’m going to present my 7-piece composition “7 Habits of Highly Miserable People” in its entirety at the Audiovisionen concert series curated by Hannes Teichmann at Kulturraum Zwinglikirche. Audiovisionen is one of Berlin’s prominent electronic/electro-acoustic concert … Continue reading →

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Duo concert with Ute Wassermann on 24.07

Posted on July 21, 2023 by Korhan Erel

I have been playing with the amazing voice artist/composer Ute Wassermann on and off since our meeting on the exact day I moved to Berlin in 2014. We performed in quartets, in larger ensembles, played several duos in Berlin and … Continue reading →

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Panel on Networking and Two Concerts in Berlin

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Korhan Erel

I’m going to be a panelist at “#1 Get connected! Networking in Berlin’s creative and cultural scene” event organized by Kreativ Kultur Berlin on 6.7. at 17:00 (CET). If you know people who’ve just arrived in Berlin and could use … Continue reading →

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Böseblick plays live on Cashmere Radio

Posted on June 17, 2023 by Korhan Erel

The electronic music ensemble Böseblick will be hosted by Nico Daleman on his show “The Rest is Music” on Cashmere Radio on June 19. The show starts at 5pm and will feature an interview with us and a live set. … Continue reading →

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Only With You in Hamburg with Gunnar Lettow

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Korhan Erel

The electronic duo Only With You (Eliad Wagner and Korhan Erel) will play in the Frequenzgänge series at Linker Laden in Hamburg. 20:00. Together with Gunnar Lettow, the curator of the series and member of Lettow/Erel Duo, there will be three duos. Gunnar Lettow … Continue reading →

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Solo Concert at New and Newest Music Festival

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Korhan Erel

On May 10, I’m going to present 4 pieces from my 7-piece work-in-progress composition “7 Habits of Highly Miserable People” at New and Newest Music Festival organized by Arter (Istanbul) and curated by Matthias Osterwold. The research and initial compositional … Continue reading →

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Only With You, electronic duo with Eliad Wagner

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Korhan Erel

Eliad Wagner and I have an electronic music duo called Only With You, where we use digital FM synthesis, physical touch controllers, feedback/cybernetic circuitry, analogue modular synthesis, sequencers, delay lines, ring modulators and mixers to explore diverse cultural niches from … Continue reading →

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The Liz Farewell concert & Ephemeral Fragments at Ausland

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Korhan Erel

My trio The Liz with Liz Allbee and Liz Kosack has accomplished her mission of bringing performativity and DIY multidisciplinary work to Berlin’s experimental scene and will go out with a band at Ausland’s Biegungen im Ausland concert series on … Continue reading →

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A collection of live solo concert recordings on Bandcamp

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Korhan Erel

In late 2022, I started compiling recordings of some solo concerts in an album titled “Live” on Bandcamp. As of this writing, it contains five recordings from concerts in Iran, Austria and Germany and spans a period from 2012 to … Continue reading →

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