live score for ASMA: Ideal Space for Music show at SculptureCenter in Long Island City, Queens. Performed on February 28th in the basement level of the space, inside ASMA's multi room installation. This piece was composed in dialogue with ASMA, manipulating an archive of sounds that they sent me that had influenced the work in the show. 

https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/14030/asma-ideal-space-for-music

image: ASMA, Yum, Yuck (Joint B), 2024. Aluminum. 13 3⁄4 inches (35 cm) diameter. Commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York. Courtesy the artists; Gaga, Los Angeles and Guadalajara; and Peana, Mexico City. Photo: Charles Benton

LIVE SCORE FOR ASMA SHOW @ SCULPTURECENTER

DEVOTIONAL

THE DOG'S AFFIRMATION

CONDEMNED TO HOPE

https://si11age.bandcamp.com/album/surpassing-disaster

8ULENTINA’s debut full length album ‘Surpassing Disaster’ is coming out on March 25th via SILLAGE, the first single ‘AYŞE’ is out today on bandcamp.

‘Surpassing Disaster’ is a research driven sonic narrative, enmeshing the theatricality of acoustic instruments from Arab orchestral and folk traditions with electronic elements. Themes of resurrection, restraint, illegibility, desire and spirituality are explored throughout tracks that move within ambient, sound design, field recordings, and dance music.

This project engages with the past as an active collaborator instead of source of nostalgia, acknowledging the immaterial withdrawal that follows surpassing disasters and the process of making an archive and working within an existing one as an attempted act of resurrection. ’Surpassing Disaster’ references Jalal Toufic’s text ‘The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster’. The record includes collaborative track 'GNIVILNI’ featuring cellist Rohana and vocals by Nana XOXO. GNIVILNI’'s vocals reference and abstract Assata Shakur’s poem ‘Affirmation’. The improvisational collaboration between 8ULENTINA, Nana XOXO and Rohana is a convergence of our individual practices of sonic experimentation, performance and research.

‘Surpassing Disaster’ is the first release on 8ULENTINA’s label SILLAGE, a curatorial platform for contemporary sonic artifacts.

Esra Canoğulları, also known as 8ULENTINA, is a New York based interdisciplinary artist, music producer, and DJ. Known for his dynamic DJ sets and genre-defying compositions, 8ULENTINA’s projects are characterized by his use of sound design, percussive intensity, storytelling and theatricality. 8ULENTINA co-founded CLUB CHAI (2016–2021), a record label and curatorial platform based in Oakland, California with Lara Sarkissian and currently runs SILLAGE, a platform for contemporary sonic artifacts.

Composition, Production, Music Arrangement:
Esra Canoğulları

Creative Direction:
Esra Canoğulları

Collaborations: ‘GINVILNI’
Vocals: Nana XOXO
Cello: Rohana

Mastered by:
Esra Canoğulları

Mixed by:
Esra Canoğulları

Artwork:
Esra Canoğulları
Camera Assistance: Nana XOXO

Recorded and produced in:
New York

Released by:
SILLAGE

AYŞE

ROOT

KOLONYA

‘GNIVILNI’ (feat. Nana XOXO & Rohana) is a collaborative track featuring cellist Rohana and vocals by Nana XOXO. ‘GNIVILNI’'s vocals reference and abstract Assata Shakur’s poem ‘Affirmation’. The improvisational collaboration between me, Nana XOXO and Rohana is a convergence of our individual practices of sonic experimentation, performance and research. We will be performing together live at my album release show on Sunday April 6th at Stone Circle Theatre: https://theticketing.co/e/8ulentina

GNIVILNI (feat. Nana XOXO & Rohana)

ATTEMPTED RESURRECTION

DESIRE RUSE

IMMATERIAL WITHDRAWAL

OSCILLATING FLOOD

PUSHING THE PIT THROUGH THE FLESH

WHY THIS CUT, HERE?

BOOKING / CONTACT: 8ulentina@gmail.com
co-founder of @CLUBCHAI (2015-2021)
currently running SILLAGE

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