günseli naz ferel 

~ music person, sound artist, phd researcher on sound and ethnography ~

~ resonating in london and istanbul ~

~ DJing & producing as gûn ~

~ hosting mother-of-pearl, monthly show of ambient electronic sounds, on netil radio ~

~co-founder of ambient experimental event series @hum-club and queer arts collective House of Spring ~

few of the past live performances & DJ sets: 

24.08 - escenas sonicas #28 - Subterritory @ PAS, Berlin
25.07 - Garden of Earthly Delights @ Street Studios, London
13.02 - Lunova Festival Closing Set @ SOAS, London
29.01 - Lunova Festival Preview Party @ SOAS, London 
15.12 - Noisemas Party by IKLECTIK In Aid of Palestine & Lebanon @ Loki, Brixton
03.12 - Live Performance - SPARC Lab: 3D sound from the City Studios @ City, University of London  
12.10 - HUM01 @ Eldem Art Space, Eskişehir 
26.11 - Live Performance for function{paradigm} night @ Kargart, Kadıköy
23.11 - Şahika - İstanbul
12.11 - Cohabitants Exhibition & House of Spring Night @ BANGER Istanbul
29.10 - Karga Kabin - Istanbul
25.10 - arkaoda - Istanbul
14.10 - BINA - Istanbul
12.10 - House of Spring Takeover @ Şahika - Istanbul
30.09 - House of Spring x Boun Sergi Takeover @ Karga - Istanbul 
24.09 - Agar Agar Concert Warm-up @ Salon IKSV - Istanbul
02.09 - XSM Recordings @ Suma Beach - Istanbul
10.08 - Tavern - Istanbul
05.08 - A Midsummer' Night Festival @ Beykoz Kundura - Istanbul
26.06 - IKSV Gezgin Salon Festivali - Istanbul
23.06 - Baby Step Sequences @ Gizli Bahçe - Istanbul
15.06 - Boiler Room Istanbul @ Salon IKSV - Istanbul
09.06 - Rosa Brisante X House of Spring @ Kiki - Istanbul
20.05 - Wunderfest - Gökçeada 
15.05 - "Değilim" Group Exhibition by M4NM @ Peep Art Space - Istanbul 
28.04 - Influx by Table Records @ arkaoda - Istanbul

Previous radio shows: 
⋆˙⟡ Huzur-La,  a bimestrial radio art show broadcasted on @lyl_radio (https://lyl.live/show/huzur-la) - January 2021 - June 2024 
⋆˚࿔ Velvet Tides, was on air every first Wednesday of each month on Root Radio (@rootradiolive) - May 2020 - November 2021
⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪Not Running With the Wolves - Kurtlarla Koşmuyorum, radio art show and live guest performances broadcasted on @radyomodyan between 2019 - 2021  
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Mantis Selektion - music & talk show broadcasted on @radyomodyan between 2018-2019
ִ ࣪𖤐 Grassroots - Reggae culture and history talk show broadcasted on Flow Radyo between 2016-2018

Born in Wales in 1969 and brought up in Warwickshire, Julian Philips studied music at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is one of Britain’s most versatile composers. His music has been performed across the world at major festivals and venues including the BBC Proms, Tanglewood Music Festival, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne and Wigmore Hall, by international artists including Gerald Finley, Dawn Upshaw, Sir Thomas Allen, the Vertavo String Quartet and BBC orchestras.
With a particular affinity for music for voice, Philips has been critically acclaimed for song settings of Emily Dickinson, e e cummings, Dylan Thomas and Langston Hughes among others, most recently a new cycle for baritone, cello and harp, Turning Fifty (2019) based on the poetry of Judith Wright. Love Songs for Mary Joyce (2016), commissioned by Wigmore Hall for tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook, sets a series of late love poems by John Clare. His choral music is similarly celebrated and is included in the Choirbook for the Queen (Church Music) as well as being commissioned for the BBC Proms (Sorrowfull Songes).
As Glyndebourne Opera’s first ever Composer-in-Residence, Philips completed two chamber operas in 2006-9: Followers, a site-specific promenade opera with a libretto by Simon Christmas, and The Yellow Sofa with a libretto by Edward Kemp, subsequently featured in Glyndebourne’s tour and shortlisted for a British Composer Award. The year-long development of Knight Crew was filmed by BBC Television and the resulting series, Gareth goes to Glyndebourne, aired in June 2010. Philips’ opera How the Whale Became, a collaboration with Edward Kemp, was based on Ted Hughes’s The Dreamfighter and other creation tales, and was written for the Royal Opera House’s Christmas 2013/14 season. His most recent full-length opera, The Tale of Januarie, was staged by the Guildhall School in Spring 2017, boasting perhaps the first libretto in Middle English by Stephen Plaice, and based on Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale. A new primary school children’s opera, Henny Penny (2021), offers its participants an immersive experience both in music and modern language learning, with versions in French (Cocotte Chocotte), German (Hennig Pfennig) and Spanish (Pollita Chiquita).
Ballet and opera are natural progressions for Philips, who already has an impressive track-record in composing for the theatre and has written two full-length ballets for choreographer Michael Corder and English National Ballet; a ballet based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses was followed by The Snow Queen in 2007. Symphonic works also form Philips’ oeuvre with All that remains commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of World War I receiving its world premiere by the National Orchestra of Belgium. Ballades Concertantes, for solo viola and double bass with chamber orchestra, premiered with Virginia Slater, Stacey Watton, and the Orchestra of the Swan in 2017, conducted by David Curtis.
A vital force in education, Philips is the Head of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he was made Honorary Fellow in 2007, and conferred a Professorship in 2014. He was responsible for the creation of both a new Masters Programme in Opera-Making & Writing and a Doctoral Composer-in-Residence scheme in association with the Royal Opera House.
Recent projects include a new oboe quintet, Through Silence (2020) for Wigmore Hall, and a set of folk song creative transcriptions, Melodys of Earth and Sky (2021), for violin and clarinet that draw on the two books of fiddle tunes collected by poet John Clare. The work was released on NMC Recordings in March 2022, reaching no 10 in the classical charts. In October 2022, The Country of Larks for tenor, horn and piano – a setting of Robert Louis Stevenson – receives its third performance at the Oxford Lieder Festival.
In August 2022, Julian Philips was featured composer at the Presteigne Festival, with six works featured including Barcarola for solo piano, Divertissement for chamber orchestra (based on his ballet score for Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and Looking West – a large-scale dramatic cantata for voices, actors and ensemble, (libretto by Rebecca Hurst), commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Other recent works include A Series of Strange Encounters for marimba and wind quintet, premiered by Evelyn Glennie at the Lake District Summer Music Festival in July 2023. Current projects include a series of John Clare settings for the vocal ensemble Exaudi and ongoing collaboration with the New London Chamber Ensemble, celebrating their 25th Anniversary, with a series of chamber works.

Shilts received their Bachelor’s degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, their Masters in Music Composition from Shenandoah University, Master of Arts in Opera Making and Writing from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Miami. Shilts' musical style is influenced by their interest in opera, politics, mental health, and gender expression. As an artist, Shilts is interested in creating music that's expressionistic in emotion, but surreal in experience through temporal manipulation and the distortion of sound.

Their works have been featured in Walden Creative Musicians Retreat, Charlotte New Music Festival, Hypercube Composition Lab, Longy’s Divergent studio, Alba Music Festival, and Marginale Transmedia Arts and Electronic Music Festival; their work has been performed by ensembles such as the Mivos Quartet, Hypercube, Loadbang, Arx Duo, Transient Canvas, and The _____ Experiment. In June of 2022, Their chamber opera Samhain Bloom premiered at the Guildhall School, and followed on the heels of their premiere of Le Bistro Poulet by Opera Extra at Shenandoah Conservatory. Shilts was also a finalist in Atlanta Opera's 96-Hour Opera Project in June of 2023.

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