Prepared piano, sound/music tracks, performed, edited, composed by Tolga Balcı.


VUMA Projects invited me to work with them on a geo triggered app that collects, honours the voice of the people of color in Scandinavia.  

More info can be found on this on going project here: https://www.vuma.no/

preview for VUMA Soner at Latent City  // Future DiverCities

3 segments of unpretentious strength

puste som insekt

by Tolga Balcı
cover art by Tolga Balcı 
‘’heleneset''

recalling the touch of your hair

run after ekmek

Your Anger Breaks Us Apart

guitar & bass guitar; composition : Tolga Balcı
cello : Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu

Thanks to Çağdaş Acar who borrowed me his bass guitar in our island residency. Drawing is created during our boredom session at an art gallery performance together with Zayşe.

Limbo

whistles of demdike

field recordings taken from Håkanshallen; Bergen/Norway.
composition by Tolga Balci

Hammers & Pneumatics

performed & recorded by Tolga Balci.
Locations: Fredriksstad Mek. Verksted, Kråkerøy Tunnel, Isegran Fort and various locations in Oslo.

 Fredriksstad Mekanisk Verksted is one of the location that is going to be demolished next few years. The shipyard in Værste is a place for historically important Industrial buildings of Fredrikstad as well as great examples of Norwegian Industry before the oil times. I choose specifically two buildings that has an enormous reverberation. Today those places used for storing metal pieces for digging, retro cars, private caravans and boats. I used the material from the room,  wires, cords of boats, metal pieces and wall attachments with drumstick & bow...

The piece is played 4 channel during NTA MA2 show opening at Black Box NTA HIOF.

teethcord headreed

Radio piece for "vær snill og tilgi mitt sene svar vi ankrer snart opp ved en ny havn / please forgive me because of my late reply we will be anchoring soon to a new harbour"
during the event FMV Night Sea Journey, Fredrikstad. 2017

4 Channel edit to stereo. 

Thanks to
Pea Hov (spoken word)
Maria Elionore Wang Kvalheim (spoken word )
Linn Haldrup Lorenzen (spoken word)
Sara Evelyn Brown (violin, vocal)

vær snill og tilgi mitt sene svar...

Sana Doğru

comp. & vocals by Tolga Balci

The dogie is rescued bz Emre, Later carried to Büyükada and adopted by one of the former horse coachman/faytoncu abi of the island. 

Thanks to Kıyak otel in Myra, Antalya.

å dra sun

triptrap

hikaye

el. guitar, composition,  mix & master 
by Tolga Balcı 

choir: Sara Evelyn Brown & Tolga Balcı

5. Mevsim

beşinci mevsim

born Ankara, Turkey
based in Graz, Austria.

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