Imagining Kassia: I think I found something

An interpretation of Kassia's Hymn: "Lord, the woman found in many sins"
Voice: Brett Umlauf

Imagining Kassia: Looking for her voice

Imagining Kassia

Kassia-The Woman who had fallen in many sins
Verse 1
Voice: Brett Umlauf

1 - Kassia-Verse1

A tape composition representing a 24-hour period of Istanbul in compressed into 8.5 minutes.   The piece was created from field recordings of the city beginning at 5:30 AM with the morning call to prayer.  This call is repeated five times, each time from a different part of the city. The field recordings were made in 1998 and 1999 in Kadıköy former Salı pazarı, Kadıköy, Karaköy, Beyoğlu, Eminönü and Mısır Çarşısı.

İstanbul

Residents of Sinop describe their city now and explain how they want to see it in the future. Collecting the Future Exhibition. Sinop, September 2011.

What the city says

Margin Sounds of Istanbul for Antwerp

far away

from Irk Bitig- The Book of Omens
An adaptation to a contemporary music theater performance after Irk Bitig-9th century Book of Omens using old Turkic Script.

Black Loop

istanbul do/redo/undo

Nathan Schweigt
Interpretation of Lessing’s Nathan der Weise by Emre Koyuncuoğlu
Theater Freiburg, 2010
Voices: Anna Böger, Lena Drieschner, Bettina Grahs, Frank Albrecht, Hendrik Heutmann, Martin Weigel   
Field Recordings: Konya and Freiburg

Earth

Epicenter is a tape piece for processed percussion instruments and oboe. It was created after a personal experience at the August 17, 1999 earthquake in Istanbul.

Cigdem Borucu

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