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“Soundtracking” video by Lange//Berweck//Lorenz
My piece “Soundtracking” is a composition that serves as an imaginary soundtrack for a horror/sci-fi film that could have been made in the 1980s. The piece was commissioned by the synthesizer trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz in 2021 for their concert series “Very … Continue reading
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 made 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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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
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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Musics For No Particular Occasion – New Digital Release
Between May and August 2020, I had a relatively productive period, finally shaking the pandemic-related frozenness and depression off. As I was, just like many others, mostly at home, I composed, experimented, improvised and recorded. Most of these pieces I … Continue reading
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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Cyminology in Munich
Korhan Erel will be playing his first-ever concert with the amazing Cyminology as one of the guest musicians on April 20 in Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in Munich. The other guest musician is Martin Stegner, violist extraordinaire, who has been playing and recording … Continue reading
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Tagged bratsche, chamber music, composition, contemporary music, controller, davul, double-bass, drums, electroacoustic, flügel, Germany, impressionism, improvisation, iran, jazz, klavier, kontrabas, kontrabass, München, Münih, minimalism, persian, piano, piyano, poetry, schlagzeug, ses, sound processing, Turkey, viola, vocal, vocals, voice, vokal
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A Book of Songs and Places, September 2-7, 2013, Istanbul
project by Maxime Hourani as Part of 13th Istanbul Biennial curated by Fulya Erdemci During the workshops different musicians will lead songwriting sessions for artists, architects, sociologists, students and others who are interested. The collaborative workshops will look at several … Continue reading
March 23: Başak Yavuz Quintet at 60m2
I have recently joined jazz vocalist/composer Başak Yavuz’s jazz group, turning it into a quintet. Başak’s music, to me, has a feeling of tranquility as well as openness towards experimentation. I was listening to the band one night at Gitar … Continue reading
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Summer Pause, New Duo, Upcoming Concerts in 2012
With the concert at Dunia, Istanbul of Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola) / Korhan Erel (computer, controllers) duo concert with guests Jessika Kenney (voice), Eyvind Kang (viola) and Özlem Kaya (violin), I will be playing no concerts until the end of summer … Continue reading
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