Author Archives: Korhan Erel
Activities in January and February
2020 seems to be a much calmer year with less travelling and not that many concerts, but that does not mean it will be less exciting. The best news was that our project ‘Scarecrow’ with my wife Tuçe Erel was … Continue reading
Five-night Residency at Au Topsi Pohl
Korhan Erel will have a five-night residency at Berlin’s wonderful experimental music/jazz venue Au Topsi Pohl on November 19-23. Korhan will play with some of the best and most innovative musicians and performers from Berlin, Ramallah and Munich in duos, … Continue reading
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November in Brussels, Cologne and Berlin
Korhan Erel will be playing a solo concert in the S M O G series in Brussels on November 8. They will present re-interpretations of their older pieces from Con-Structures and Spam Me Senseless albums as well as some new … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgium, Berlin, Brussel, Brussels, cello, cologne, concert, double-bass, drums, electroacoustic, electronic music, festival, Free Improvisation, Germany, improvisation, jazz, köln, modular synthesizer, residency, saxophone, serene, solo, spoken word, synth, text, viola, visuals
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Klub Demboh goes North in October
The Berlin-based group Klub Demboh has since spring 2017, on a weekly basis, developed an open and multiform music in which the unexpected often has drastic consequences. Improvisation on the verge of total collapse. Klub Demboh is a revitaliser of the … Continue reading
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Tagged demboh, gagnef, norrköpping, north, oslo, performance, Sweden, tour
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How to get rid of a body. A magic manual
Korhan Erel teams up with Léonard Engel and Maja Zimmermann to produce Engel’s second solo work ‘How to get rid of a body. A magic manual’. After a six-week rehearsal period, which started with a residency at PACT Zollverein in … Continue reading
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Tagged composition, contemporary dance, dance, magic, München, Munich, posthumanism, sound design, transhumanism
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A month of rather diverse musical activities
In June, I will be performing in some amazing festivals and venues with very different projects. First off a concert with Trickster Orchestra at Tonhalle Düsseldorf at the Schönes Wochenende Festival, where I will compose and perform a sound piece … Continue reading
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Tagged Almanya, artificial intelligence, avantgarde, özgür doğaçlama, Berlin, concert, controller, cyber, davul, daxophone, Düsseldorf, Deutschland, electro-acoustic, electroacoustic, electroacoustic music, electronic music, electronics, elektroakustik, elektronik, festival, Free Improvisation, freedom, Germany, Hamburg, iranian poetry, konser, müzik, Moers Festival, music, orchestra, percussion, performance, posthumanism, robotics, saxophone, schlagzeug, ses, transhumanism, trickster
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Electro-acoustic Live Techno
Korhan Erel and accordion player Mikail Yakut have been preparing an electro-acoustic techno set for the #disPlaced – #rePlaced 2 Festival to take place in Berlin on April 12-13. The festival, which will take place in Radialsystem with an afterparty … Continue reading
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Tagged accordion, Berlin, concert, displaced, electro-acoustic, festival, music, performance, premiere, replaced, techno, Turkey
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Hacktivate Yourself in Hong Kong
Korhan Erel will spend two weeks in Hong Kong for the exhibition “Hacktivate Yourself”, where they will show a sound installation titled “we’re all alike” and perform an audiovisual show with visual artist Vvzela Kook on March 30th. The exhibition … Continue reading
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Tagged art, audiovisual, biopolitics, contemporary art, gender, hacking, hong kong, performance, performance art, queer, sound installation
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Concerts, exhibitions in Berlin and Hong Kong in March
On March 4, Korhan Erel improvises and does other strange things with Klub Demboh, an improvised performance collective that does things a bit weirder than usual. The performance will be at Petersburg Art Space in Moabit. Korhan plays with Naabtal … Continue reading
