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Nora Krahl, Miako Klein, Tolga Tüzün, Korhan Erel @ Dunia, Istanbul, May 5, 2013
German violinist/recorder player Miako Klein and cellist Nora Krahl are stopping by in Istanbul on their way back from a tour in Iraq to play with two Istanbul improvisers Korhan Erel (computer and controllers) and Tolga Tüzün (electronics and piano) in a great night of improvised music at Dunia.
Tolga and Nora had previously improvised together at Dunia, and Korhan and Tolga have played numerous times (a review of their Borusan performance here) and released an album recently titled Superimposed Circumstances.
Music starts at 9:00pm. Entrance is free. Dunia is here:
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May 2, 2013: Mark Alban Lotz & Islak Köpek at Gitar Cafe
Mark Alban Lotz is an Utrecht-based flute player and improviser who is also quite well known in Turkey as a jazz player and improviser. He had come to Istanbul in 2010 to make two recordings with Istanbul-based improvisers. One of these recordings was with Islak Köpek, Turkey’s first free improvisation ensemble founded in 2005. This record, “Istanbul Improv Sessions May 4th”, was released on Evil Rabbit Records in 2011. Islak Köpek and Mark played a concert at Borusan Müzik Evi in Istanbul soon after the release of the album. Islak Köpek’s founder Korhan Erel and Mark have also started a duo after this collaboration, which resulted in concerts in Turkey and the Netherlands with guests like Wolter Wierbos, Eric Boeren and Robert van Heumen.
Mark Alban Lotz returns to Istanbul once more to reunite with Islak Köpek. They will play a concert at Gitar Cafe on May 2nd. The concert will start at 9pm.
Mark Alban Lotz: flutes
Şevket Akıncı: acoustic guitar
Korhan Erel: computer, controllers
Gülşah Erol: cello
Giray Gürkal: electric guitar, effects
Robert Reigle: tenor saxophone
Volkan Terzioğlu: tenor saxophone
We’d like to extend our thanks to the Kingdom of Netherlands Consulate in Istanbul for supporting this musical and cultural exchange between Mark Alban Lotz and improvisers in Istanbul.
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Space Oddity (version for piano & electronics by Toros Can & Korhan Erel)
Contemporary pianist Toros Can and I had worked on a reinterpretation of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” for piano and electronics, which was performed by Toros at Borusan Müzik Evi in his duo concert with pianist Kai Schumacher in 2012. Kai recently played this piece in Essen, Germany. This is the video of that performance.
Live recording @ UNESCO-Welterbe Zeche Zollverein, Essen (04.04.2013)
A Midspring Night’s Improvisation
Mural in Istanbul, reinterpreted by İlknur Ayışık
Mark Alban Lotz, Utrecht-based flute player and improviser, who is also the other half of the Lotz/Erel duo, will be in Istanbul from April 26th through May 5th, and play a series of concerts with me and other musicians. The first of these performances is “A Midspring Night’s Improvisation” at Gitar Cafe on April 26th. The concert will feature three great musicians from Portugal: Paulo Chagas, Paulo Duarte and Fernande Simões.
Çağlayan Yıldız (guitar and electronics)
Fernando Simões (trombone)
Korhan Erel (computer and controllers)
Mark Alban Lotz (flutes)
Paulo Chagas (flute and saxophone)
Paulo Duarte (electric guitar)
Sumru Ağıryürüyen (voice)
Gitar Cafe (directions)
April 26, 2013 – 09:00pm
Cover: 15 TL
This concert is made possible by the generous contribution of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Istanbul.
Directions:
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“Disorient and Accident” by Korhan Erel at MAK Nite Lab
MAK NITE Lab
16 April 2013
KORHAN EREL (Istanbul/TK)
Disorient and Accident
Live-Concert
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art
Photo © MAK/Katrin Wisskirchen
Solo Concert “Disorient and Accident” at MAK Nite Lab, Vienna, April 16, 2013
Photo by Eylem Erdinç
Korhan Erel will play a solo concert at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna on April 16, 2013. The concert is a part of the MAK Nite performance series curated by Marlies Wirth and is a part of the “Signs Taken in Wonder – Searching for Contemporary Istanbul” exhibition (Jan 23rd through Apr 21st, 2013). The exhibition surveys the work of 33 international contemporary artists, born between the 1920s and the 1980s, whose art engages with aspects of Istanbul’s culture, history, and daily life. This will be Korhan’s second performance at MAK Nite, the first being “Malice in Sonderland“, a collaborative audiovisual performance with Vienna-based video artist Alexandra Reill in January 2010.
The concert starts at 8pm and will have the following program:
– Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (Alvin Lucier) – reinterpretation with computer, triangle samples and live processing
– Improvisation #1
– Mahrec – a structured improvisation/composition based on recordings made in Hraç Arslanyan’s jewellery design workshop Mahrec in Istanbul’s old town. Recordings are from actual design work by Gözde Erdoğan and Kıymet Daştan.
– Improvisation #2
– Class Struggle – a piece based on sounds of water entrapped between a hotplate and a teapot.
– Stück für Glockenspiel, Klavier, Streicherensemble, Rechner und Jodlerkönig. Features a sample from the Franzl Lang song “Einen Jodler hör i gern”
Korhan Erel will be in Vienna between April 11-18. Please contact him here if you’d like to set up a meeting.
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Chen, Ağıryürüyen, Akıncı, Gürkal, Erel at Cafe Mitanni, April 5, 2013
Korhan Erel will play with American-Chinese cello, voice and electronics artist Audrey Chen and his improviser friends at Cafe Mitanni, a small, cosy jazz venue on one of the bustling streets of Beyoğlu, Istanbul’s perpetually packed headquarters of entertainment, food, night life district. The concert will start at 10pm with a brief solo performance by Audrey Chen, followed by a set of improvisations by Chen and the other musicians.
Şevket Akıncı and Korhan are founders of Islak Köpek, Turkey’s longest-standing free improvisation ensemble, which is considered to have paved the way for many other musicians to boldly perform freely improvised and experimental music in Istanbul. Sumru Ağıryürüyen and Korhan have been improvising together on and off for the past 3-4 years and have recently started the trio Bakış Açısı (Point of View) with Islak Köpek’s other guitarist, Giray Gürkal. Giray plays with Şevket in Mutant, a guitar septet. Sumru, Korhan and Şevket are also members of Nazım’a Doğru (Towards Nazım), an all-star ensemble that interprets the poetry of the great poet Nazım Hikmet with elements of free improvisation, new music, folk music and many more styles.
Çağlayan Yıldız, who was in the original line-up for this concert, will not be able to attend.
Both Chen and Islak Köpek have released albums on Evil Rabbit Records.
Audrey Chen (cello, voice, analog electronics)
Sumru Ağıryürüyen (voice)
Şevket Akıncı (guitars)
Giray Gürkal (electric guitar, effects)
Korhan Erel (computer, controllers)
April 5, 2013, 10:00pm
Cafe Mitanni
Çukurluçeşme Sokak 6/A
Beyoğlu, Istanbul
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Korhan Erel, Gülşah Erol, Gunnar Lettow @ Quiet Cue, Berlin, 10.11.12
The last concert of my Germany tour with Gülşah Erol was a performance at Berlin’s progressive music space Quiet Cue on November 10, 2012. Even though Gülşah and I were exhausted after 9 concerts in 10 days in 10 cities, this concert turned out to be one of the high points of the tour, with the wonderful contribution by Gunnar Lettow, my long-time duo partner.
Korhan Erel – computer, controllers
Gülsah Erol – cello
Gunnar Lettow – electric bass, objects, electronics
Tolga Tüzün & Korhan Erel @ Dunia, March 26
I will be playing a duo with Tolga Tüzün in the fourth leg of Tolga’s monthly concert series called “Encounters”. The encounter will take place at Dunia in Kadıköy, Istanbul and will start at 9pm.
Tolga Tüzün, piano
Korhan Erel, computer and controllers
Tolga Tüzün is a composer of new music, a pianist and a computer musician. An IRCAM fellow, he is currently the head of the music department at Bilgi University. See http://www.tolgatuzun.com for more info.
Tolga and I have recorded and released an album titled Superimposed Circumstances. This album is an electronic release on Tolga’s own label Another World. The album can be previewed and purchased on all digital distribution channels.
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