This is an excerpt from my concert with Greek noise artist Nikos Kyriazopoulos at the Knot Gallery in Athens on March 18, 2011. The concert was a part of an evening of electronic music performances that also featured Lunar Miasma (GR) and Black to Comm (D).
The total duration of the concert was 30 minutes. A full length download will be available soon.
Korhan Erel played a solo set with his computer instrument Omnibus at Gram, one of the new alternative music venues in Kadıköy, Istanbul.
Omnibus is a collection of instruments designed in Ableton Live and Audiomulch by Korhan Erel. Korhan uses Omnibus to play ambient, electro-acoustic and free improvised music either as a solo artist or in collective performances, such as with Islak Köpek, Turkey’s pioneer free improvisation group he co-founded in 2005. He has been working on this instrument collection/performance system for more than a year. The instruments are played with various controllers including Nintendo Wii controllers, iPad, iPod, Novation Launchpad and Korg Nanokontrols. Omnibus uses Korhan’s field recordings, found sounds and sound designs as raw materials and manipulates them using granular, spectral and other means. It can also process external sound sources, such as acoustic instruments.
The recording of the concert is available here as a VBR MP3 file.
Century's Love
A CENTURY’S LOVE
Written and Directed by Yeşim Özsoy Gülan
Performers: Sanem Öge, Deniz Celiloğlu
Sound Design: Korhan Erel
Video : Melisa Önel
Set & Costume Design: Başak Özdoğan
Photography: Melisa Önel – Genco Gülan
Light Design: Kemal Yiğitcan
Assistant Directors: Ferdi Çetin, Mert İzcan
8.30 pm every Friday and Saturday at Galata Perform starting February 12th, 2011.
Dogs and Birds
French Cultural Center
February 4, 2011 – 7.30pm
Tickets: 5 TL (available at the door)
Members of two free improvisation groups in Istanbul, Islak Köpek and Have You Seen My Bird? come together for an evening of free improvised music at the French Cultural Institute’s concert hall on February 4, 2011. The Turkish, French and American members of these two groups have played together in many concerts and on several albums released on the Turkish free improvisation netlabel re:konstrukt as well as the recent Below The Radar Special Edition: Melting Pot released by The Wire to their subscribers with their November 2011 issue (Melting Pot Istanbul).
Şevket Akıncı: Guitars, Effects
Jose Blasco: Electric Guitar, Effects
Korhan Erel: Computer, Controllers, Melodica
Florent Merlet: Drums
Robert Reigle: Tenor Saxophone
Volkan Terzioglu: Tenor Saxophone
New project with flute player Mark Alban Lotz: Lotz/Erel duo. I played with Mark for the first time at a concert in Gitar Cafe, Istanbul. A few days later my band Islak Köpek went into the studio with him to record. The results were very good. I was particularly fond of the four duos I recorded with him. All four will be included in the forthcoming Islak Köpek album with Mark to be released in March 2011 on the Dutch label Evil Rabbit Records. Please visit the Soundcloud page for further details.
Currently planning a European tour in March-May 2011. Please contact korhanerel [at] gmail.com for inquiries.
