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Islak Köpek @ Gitar Cafe, Dec 6, 2012
Istanbul-based free improvisation ensemble Islak Köpek will start their monthly concert series at Gitar Cafe on December 6, 2012. The concert will start at 9pm. In this series, Islak Köpek will alternate between playing as an ensemble and collaborating with … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, avantgarde, concert, electroacoustic, Free Improvisation, freedom, Gitar Cafe, Islak Köpek, Istanbul, music, non-idiomatic, sound, texture, Turkey
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Erel, Furuya, Lanfredini, Merlet at Gitar Cafe, November 29
On November 29, I will be playing with three very exciting improvisers at Gitar Cafe. This is a meeting that was built from chance meetings. I met Nobuyasu Furuya, wind player based in Japan, on Facebook and was amazed by … Continue reading
Concerts in Germany: Soundtrips, Lettow/Erel/Erol, Honsinger/Fariello/Erel/İleri
Soundtrips This November, Korhan Erel will be playing six concerts with cellist/bandmate Gülşah Erol in the Soundtrips concert series curated by Simon Camatta, Gunda Gottschalk, Erhard Hirt, Paul Hubweber, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, and Martin Blume. In each concert, there will be … Continue reading
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Tagged aachen, Berlin, Bochum, cello, cologne, computer, controller, dario fariello, electroacoustic, electronic music, Erhard Hirt, Fabian Jung, free, Free Improvisation, freedom, Gülşah Erol, Germany, Gunnar Lettow, Hamburg, Hannover, Istanbul, Joana Sa, köln, Martin Blume, Martin Theurer, Matthias Muche, münster, music, nicolas wiese, non-idiomatic, Paul Lytton, quiet cue, Simon Camatta, tristan honsinger, witten, wuppertal, zeitzone
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Serra Yılmaz & Islak Köpek @ Akbank Jazz Festival
Korhan Erel’s free improvisation ensemble Islak Köpek continues their collaboration with actress Serra Yılmaz with a concert in the Akbank Jazz Festival, which is Turkey’s most progressive music festival organized by Pozitif. The collaboration between Yılmaz and Islak Köpek is … Continue reading
Viewpoint: Sumru Ağıryürüyen, Korhan Erel, Giray Gürkal @ Gitar Cafe, Oct. 18
Sumru Ağıryürüyen (voice), Korhan Erel (computer, controllers), Giray Gürkal (electric guitar, effects) will present an evening of solo, duo and trio improvisations at Gitar Cafe, where they will attempt to look at music and each other from different viewpoints. The … Continue reading
Concert with Jürg Solothurnmann and friends @ Gitar Cafe, Istanbul, September 20
Jürg Solothurnmann, the Swiss saxophonist, music writer, ethnomusicologist and lecturer, will be visiting Istanbul and playing a series of concerts with Istanbul-based improvisers. I will be playing with him and other musicians in the last one of his three performances. … Continue reading
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Tagged özlem kaya, computer, controller, David Brosset, Free Improvisation, Gitar Cafe, Istanbul, Jürg Solothurnmann, Jose Blasco
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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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Tagged aachen, akbank caz festivali, akbank jazz festival, audiovisual, özlem kaya, Berlin, Burcu Yağcıoğlu, christian wolff, cologne, composition, computer, controller, Dunia, essen, eyvind kang, Gülşah Erol, Gunnar Lettow, hagen, Hamburg, Hannover, Islak Köpek, Istanbul, jessika kenney, john cage, köln, münster, Serra Yılmaz, structured improvisation, Tanya Kalmanovitch, witten, wuppertal
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New Album: Superimposed Circumstances
Composer and pianist Tolga Tüzün and computer musician Korhan Erel, both operating in between the lines and both tackling sounds, textures, patterns that live, that breathe, started out a joint journey in 2009. This journey culminated in a recording at … Continue reading
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Tagged ableton live, Album, audiomulch, avant-garde, avantgarde, Bilgi Üniversitesi, Bilgi University, computer, controller, electroacoustic, electronic music, Free Improvisation, Istanbul, piano, release
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