dark days no.1

Organized Sounds

Eastanbul

The recording was made in Cekmekoy, Istanbul, which is where the university I teach at is located. I usually hear these birds in the evening or very early in the morning. I am not sure about the exact species of these birds, but I can usually hear them when the city noise starts to decrease.

Evening Birds

Real-time audio synthesis of a three string Cura Bağlama (traditional string instrument around Türkiye, Mediterranean region) and soundscape of Gökçeada (Imbros Island)

Imbros.tone01

Sound composition derived from samples collected during my solo sound walk event at Gökçeada, Türkiye.

Imbros.tone02

hybrid

chemicals - 11032011

The Istanbul Soundscape Project presents its second event: A Station in Haydarpaşa.
A knot coalescing; the meeting point of Europe and the Middle East for nearly a century, Haydarpaşa Station is now a shadow of its past. In the last five years it has been planned to be sold as a hotel, the roof burned, and then finally, again, announced that it will serve as a station. We have not heard the train whistles of Haydarpasa since six years now. What were the voices we felt, lacking in city life, in the absence of the Haydarpasa Railway Station?
Haydarpaşa Railway Station is a place where the trains depart, the ferries approach, and hundreds of seagulls fly around creating a symphony. Its acoustics, ambience, and all its contributions to the city's soundscape is the subject of ISP’s second event.

In addition to the voices that we can hear in the city life, we can hear the pieces composed within the context of 'separation', 'reunion', 'beginning', 'ending', 'journey', and 'Istanbul’ which we can relate with Haydarpasa. Around ten musicians will play the works they composed. If you are wondering about the city's acoustic ecology on the rails you are invited!
Hoping to travel with Haydarpaşa Station as soon as possible.

Selcuk Artut
Tuna Pase
Ipek Gorgun
Alp Tuğan
Sair Sinan Kestelli
Zeynep Özkan
Esra Genç
Mirko Ettore D'Agostino
Pieter Snapper
Ahmetcan Gökçeer
Gökalp Kanatsız
Görkem Özdemir
Hazal Elif Yalvaç
Kıvanç Tatar
Ozcan Ertek

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