RISING FROM THE SWAMPS
A night swamp for the environment analogy of forms in various distances and the point of rising above the collective cluster

Aldes - Rising From The Swamps

Sensitive Sounds & Open Radio
Collaboration with
AÇIK RADYO
17th Istanbul Biennial
In our collaboration with Açık Radyo (Open Radio),  “vocalised”  sound descriptions are broadcast in between the radio programs at irregular intervals. These vocalisations are carried out  by the radio programmers and the biennial audience who visit the radio’s mobile station at the biennial venue. This collaboration unravels Sensitive Sound’s interest in thinking about the contrast between the spoken and the written word. https://soundcloud.com/elif_evrim

Açık Radyo [Open Radio] (estd. 1995, Istanbul, Turkey) is an Istanbul-based independent and collectively owned radio station, run and programmed mainly by volunteers. Founded by 62 partners holding equal shares, the station provides a unique, egalitarian and collectively run public forum ‘open to all the sounds, colors and vibrations of the universe’. https://acikradyo.com.tr/

Sound Description IV (Sensitive Sounds & Açık Radyo)

premiere performance by the Talea Ensemble, conducted by James Baker. 03.12.2022 at the DiMenna Center for classical music, New York, NY, USA.

“Even in its most conventional form, as “love,” desire produces paradox. It is a primary relay to individuated social identity, as in coupling, family, reproduction, and other sites of personal history; yet it is also the impulse that most destabilizes people, putting them into plots beyond their control as it joins diverse lives and makes situations. […] It both constructs and collapses distinctions between public and private: it reorganizes worlds. This is one reason why desire is so often represented as political: in bringing people into public or collective life, desire makes scenes where social conventions of power and value play themselves out in plots about obstacles to and opportunities for erotic fulfillment.” Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love 

"LOVEDEATH KARAOKE" for sextet and electronics is a reimagining of the Act II Scene II of Richard Wagner’s "Tristan und Isolde." It weaves together fragments of the libretto auto-translated to English and Turkish, chord progressions that are cast in seemingly endless loops, and a montage of field recordings. Throughout the piece, the voices, field recordings, and the instrumental texture undergo different processes. Gradually, the voices get pulverized, while the ensemble acts as a “control” mechanism for the tape part: through techniques such as envelope following and convolution, the gestures of the instruments trigger and modulate the electronics. This results in a sonic texture where one constantly hears a sound through another.

"LOVEDEATH KARAOKE" is commissioned by the Talea Ensemble as the inaugural selection for their Emerging Composers Commissioning Program, and it is dedicated to Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino.

image: Hans Sebald Beham, detail from "Death and the indecent pair," 1529.

LOVEDEATH KARAOKE

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SAMİ BARUH - PROFESÖR DOKTOR

Mecnun'um Leyla'mı gördüm
Mecnun'um Leyla'mı gördüm
Bir kerecik baktı geçti
Ne sordum ne de söyledi
Kaşlarını yıktı geçti

Soramadım bir çift sözü
Soramadım bir çift sözü
Ay mıydı, gün müydü yüzü
Sandım ki Zühre yıldızı
Şavkı beni yaktı geçti
Sandım ki Zühre yıldızı

Ateşinden duramadım
Ben bu sırra eremedim
Seher vakti göremedim
Yıldız gibi aktı geçti
Seher vakti göremedim
Yıldız gibi aktı geçti

İzzetim bu ne hikmetmiş
Uyur iken gördüm bir düş
Zülüflerin kement etmiş
Yar boynuma taktı geçti

-Aşık Ali İzzet Özkan
- Aşık Veysel

Mecnun'um Leyla'mı Gördüm/ Aslı Bostancı

Bu cana su gerek
Aç gönlüm dökül yarim

Bana orman olan gerek
Saçlarım okşayan rüzgarın gerek
Uykumda sarmalayan toprağı gerek
Aşkımı harlayan nefesi gerek

Rüyanda rüyayım
Gölgende gölge
Kalbinin kalbinde
Sırlı bir zerre

Kalbim
Aç kalbin 
Dal kalbin
Bul kendin

Söz - Müzik: Aslı Bostancı

Kapak resmi: Sergey Shenderovsky

Orman Olan

"Dancing in a parallel universe with aliens, snakes and Soviet space dogs."

XXOZO has composed by arranging the audio recordings of Baruh with the renowned Turkish poet Lale Müldür in 2011.

The EP is limited to 6-channels, with mastering designed as a 12" 45rpm lacquer cut digital copy.

In the narrative, Lale Müldür describes an imaginary creature, part-woman part-serpent, of extraterrestrial origin.

XXOZO EP vocalizes four different stories unfolding in an alternative reality. With early techno/house rhythms and a simplistic and uncluttered style, the EP reflects the artist's quest for silence within the noise and communicates with tales from a fictional world.

XXOZO Lyrics: Lale Müldür

Mastering and lacquer cut by Anne Taegert at @dubplates.mastering , Berlin

Cover Design: @kirbe2.0

Lale Müldür Photo taken by Gül Kozacıoğlu

Available on all platforms on September 25!

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XSM gururla sunar: [XSM017] Sami Baruh - XXOZO

"Uzaylılar, yılanlar ve Sovyet uzay köpekleri ile paralel evrende dans."

XXOZO, Baruh’un ünlü Türk şairi Lale Müldür ile 2011 yılında gerçekleştirdiği ses kayıtları düzenlenerek bestelendi.

EP 6 kanal kayıt ile sınırlanıp, mastering’i 12” 45rpm lake kesim dijital kopyası olarak tasarlandı.

Lale Müldür, uzaydan gelen yarı kadın yarı yılan hayali bir varlık hakkında anlatıda bulunuyor.

Eser alternatif bir gerçeklikte yaşanan 4 farklı hikayeyi seslendiriyor. Erken dönem techno/house ritimleri, basit ve kalabalıktan uzak bir üslupla yazılmış EP, sanatçının gürültü içinde sessizliği arayışı ve kurgusal bir evrende olup biten masal anlatılarından oluşuyor.

XXOZO Sözler: Lale Müldür

Mastering ve Lake Kesim: Anne Taegert, @dubplates.mastering , Berlin

Kapak Tasarımı: @kirbe2.0

Lale Müldür Fotoğrafı: Gül Kozacıoğlu

XXOZO 25 Eylül’de tüm platformlarda!

Sami Baruh - XXOZO Feat. Lale Müldür

"What did you hear?" I heard my phone imitating a typewriter. "What did you hear?" I heard a voice message and thought about the people who listen to voice messages by holding the phone to their ear and the people who instead play them through the speaker. "What did you hear?" I heard that sound “is not the object but the medium of our perception. It is what we hear in.” "What did you hear?" Last year, I heard a performance of a piece by George Lewis that inspired me to write this one. "What did you hear?" I heard the sound my finger makes touching the screen (pıt, pıt, pıt) and realized this letter doesn’t exist in the English alphabet. I don’t know how an Anglophone refers to this sound. "What did you hear?" I heard the phone recordings I made of the detuned piano in Mete’s old apartment (the piano was there before he moved in and stayed there after he moved out) and thought of sending him a voice message. "What did you hear?" I heard that “sound is simply another way of saying ‘I can hear.’”

Quotations from Timothy Ingold, “Against Soundscape”; Ultra-red, “Organizing the Silence”

live recording from the premiere performance by Chicago Composers Orchestra, cond. Allen Tinkham.

Aldes - Rising From The Swamps

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