Contemporary Classical

Pandemonium (2020) explores the psyche of quarantine and isolation during Covid-19 through sonic disintegration and the turbulent relationships between layers of counterpoint.

Pandemonium (2020)

Machine Improv (2014) for generative software environment – infinite duration

This piece was conceived for the Audiovisualities Lab at Duke University as an installation. It is one of my first attempts at capturing the interplay found in jazz improvisation and recreating it in a generative software environment. Its performance is made possible with multiple software applications like Noatikl, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, and Reaktor, working in sync. This recording is an excerpt chosen from the 9-hour long recording that was made during the 2015 installation at the Audiovisualities Lab.

Machine Improv (2014) - excerpt

Asansör Asimptotu (2021)

Plasticity (2013)

CRASH LANDING (2013)

Recorded by Can Karadogan @ ITU MIAM Studios.

Sabri Tulug Tirpan, conductor

Recep Ficiyapan, flute & piccolo 
Barkin Balik, oboe
Cagdas Engin, clarinet
Berke Hitay, bassoon
Sadi Baruh, horn
Ege Cengiz, trumpet
Huseyin Cakir, bass trombone
Nilgun Yuksel, violin
Ulrich Mertin, viola
Levent Aydin, cello
Aydin Balpinar, double bass

Crash Landing (2013)

DEVİNİM (2015)

Performed by yMusic ensemble:

Rob Moose - Electric Guitar
Nadia Sirota - Viola
Andrea Lee - Cello
Hideaki Aomori - Bass Clarinet
Alex Sopp - Piccolo
CJ Camerieri - Horn
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Recorded live on March 3, 2015 at MOTORCO Music Hall in Durham, NC.



Devinim (2015)

Conrad Tao - piano

In 2004, European Space Agency launched a space probe called Rosetta on a mission to land and perform
a study of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. "Philae" was the name of its lander module. On 12
November 2014, “Philae” performed the first ever landing on a comet. Following the landing, which was a momentous event, the module got stuck in a ditch and all communications were cut off after a brief exchange of data. Months later there was a re-connection. “Philae” is still on the comet, studying data. This amazing human achievement inspired me to write a piece which marvels at the struggles, maneuvers and the loneliness of this little lander module.


Philae (2015)

Ordinary Things (2015-2016) - Eren Gumrukcuoglu. 

Performed by Deviant Septet:

Caleb Burhans - Violin
Doug Balliett - Double Bass
Bill Kalinkos - Clarinet
Brad Balliett - Bassoon
Mike Gurfield - Trumpet
Matthew Melore - Trombone
Jared Soldiviero - Percussion
&
Electronics

Recording Engineer: Richard Nelson
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Recorded live on March 11, 2016 at Baldwin Auditorium in Durham, NC.

Ordinary Things (2016)

Bozkır (2016) - Eren Gumrukcuoglu

Performed by Mivos Quartet:

Olivia De Prato - Violin
Lauren Cauley - Violin
Victor Lowrie - Viola
Mariel Roberts- Cello

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Recorded live on October 5, 2016 at Nelson Music Room in Durham, NC.
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This piece is inspired by the endless steppes that span Eurasia—from Eastern Turkey until Western China. The title Bozkır literally means ‘steppes’ in Turkish. The string quartet is treated as a homogenous unit rather than four separate entities, and at times, imagined as an oriental instrument. The first third of the piece explores several ideas derived from Turkish maqams and the folk tradition of bards’ songs, while presenting it in a manner where a constant shift of focus occurs back and forth between melodic and rhythmic structures. The second third of the piece depicts an imaginary journey from East to West through localities of texture. The final third of the piece concludes on an Anatolian folk song-like theme.

Bozkır (2016)

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Two short studies on found sound - No.1

You're Like a Scorpion, My Brother (2017) - Eren Gumrukcuoglu

Performed by New York Polyphony:

Geoffrey Williams - countertenor
Steven Caldicott Wilson - tenor
Christopher Dylan Herbert - baritone
Craig Phillips - bass

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Recorded live on January 19, 2018 at Baldwin Auditorium in Durham, NC.
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Text: "Strangest Creature on Earth" (1947) by Nâzım Hikmet

You're like a scorpion, my brother,
you live in cowardly darkness
    like a scorpion.

You're like a sparrow, my brother,
always in a sparrow's flutter.

You're like a clam, my brother,
closed like a clam, content,
And you're frightening, my brother,
    like the mouth of an extinct volcano.

Not one,
not five-
unfortunately, you number millions.

You're like a sheep, my brother:
    when the cloaked drover raises his stick,
      you quickly join the flock
and run, almost proudly, to the slaughterhouse.

I mean you're strangest creature on earth-
even stranger than the fish
  that couldn't see the ocean for the water.

And the oppression in this world
      is thanks to you.
And if we're hungry, tired, covered with blood,
and still being crushed like grapes for our wine,
          the fault is yours-

I can hardly bring myself to say it,
but most of the fault, my dear brother, is yours.

You're Like A Scorpion, My Brother (2017)

Salt and Pepper (2012)

Eren G - Guitars
Ruslan Sirota - Piano & Keys
Gilad Ronen - Tenor & Soprano Sax
Yan Perchuk - Bass
Jordan Perlson - Drums

Second Awakening

Oversoul

CRASH LANDING-midi

Eren Gumrukcuoglu: Lattice Scattering
for flute, piano, and tape

World Premiere

Ensemble Suono Giallo
World Premiere

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 21, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
www.ilsuonoacademy.com
ilsuono.academy@gmail.com

Program Notes:
Atoms, or smaller particles, are naturally lined up in a crystal formation (lattice). Lightwaves are sent towards this lattice to find out how the light bounces off and scatters. By analyzing the patterns and shapes this scattering creates, one can learn about the geometry of the lattice, and thereby the structure of the matter in question. This is a procedure which is frequently done when engineers want to test a new material for an industrial design. If the wavelength of the light is larger than the space between the lattice points, there will be no interaction and the light wave will just pass through (silence). However, if the wavelength is just right, there will be reactionary oscillations, which will create "phonon scattering" (sound).

GUMRUKCUOGLU, Eren: Lattice Scattering | for flute, piano, and tape (2018)

Pareidolia (2019) for clarinet/tenor saxophone, percussion/drum set, piano/synthesizers, string quartet, and electronics

Performed by:

JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto - violin
                          Austin Wulliman - violin
                          John Pickford Richards - viola
                          Jay Campbell - cello
Conrad Tao - piano and synthesizers
Thom Monks - percussion and drum set
Zulfugar Baghirov - clarinet and tenor saxophone

Rick Nelson - recording engineer
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Recorded on April 23, 2019 at Baldwin Auditorium in Durham, NC.
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Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music.

Pareidolia (2019)

ACOUSMATIC BABY

For Allan

Aydın Esen - keyboards
Eren Gümrükçüoğlu - guitar
Selçuk Karaman - bass
Tolga Bedir - drums

LIVE - Edge of Tomorrow w/Aydin Esen

Xanthos (2019)

Composer / Guitarist / Producer

Assistant Professor of Composition at Florida State University - College of Music

Duke University, Ph.D. - Music Composition
Duke University, A.M. - Music Composition
Istanbul Technical University, M.Sc. - Music Composition
Berklee College of Music, B.M. - Jazz Composition & Film Scoring
Duke Ellington School of Arts, Diploma - Jazz Guitar

Studied in Washington, DC and Boston, MA.
Worked in Hollywood, CA as a film composer and session guitarist extensively.
Returned to Istanbul, Turkey for a Master's degree in composition. Earned a PhD in composition at Duke University. Eren will join the faculty at Florida State University College of Music as Assistant Professor of Composition in Fall 2022.

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