Featured Tracks from CloudScapes

Creepy Ambiance

Duo piece for Piano + Dispositive (eccentric rotating mass vibrating motors - amplitude: from 6G to 13G} & MIDI Keyboard.

Piano & MIDI Keyboard: Henrique Vaz 

"In 1947, the composer Conlon Nancarrow—frustrated with human pianists and their limited ability to play his rhythmically complex music—purchased a device which allowed him to punch holes in player piano rolls. This technology allowed him to create incredibly complex musical compositions, unplayable by human hands, which later came to be widely recognized by electronic musicians as an important precursor to their work.

A similar interest in seemingly impossible music can be found today in a group of musicians who use MIDI files (which store musical notes and timings, not unlike player piano rolls) to create compositions that feature staggering numbers of notes. They're calling this kind of music "black MIDI," which basically means that when you look at the music in the form of standard notation, it looks like almost solid black"

- MICHAEL CONNOR {http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/}

Score Follower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxhIoxRU0xk

Samples from the score:
https://www.facebook.com/henrique.vaz/media_set?set=a.10203245645969268.1073741833.1452650501&type=3

░▒▓█ Black MIDI [2013] - for piano & MIDI keyboard {or disklavier}.

Toby Fox - UNDERTALE Soundtrack - 78 You Idiot

RichaadEB - Ace Waters - Determination - 19 Have You Ever Heard Of A Talking Flower-

popcorns becoming clouds of eruptions and explosions.
Special thanks to Dr. Reuben De Lautour.

photo credit: Giuseppe Famiani

new mastered version available: https://soundcloud.com/hazalelif/04-pyrocumulus-1

Pyrocumulus (older non-mastered version)

From Elif Yalvaç's debut EP CloudScapes, as released on July 6

Visit hazalelif.bandcamp.com to download the individual track or EP.

CloudScapes info
Each piece is named after a rare cloud in an attempt to associate them with sounds through utilization of synthesis techniques including pulsar synthesis--as coined by Curtis Roads--and cross synthesis as well as filtering and feedback, while a good number of field recordings are employed. 

Elif Yalvaç composes electronic music and studies Sonic Arts (MA) at Istanbul Technical University. 
hazalelif.wordpress.com

Pyrocumulus (From CloudScapes EP - July 6, 2016)

From Elif Yalvaç's debut EP CloudScapes, as released on July 6
Visit hazalelif.bandcamp.com to download the individual track or EP.

CloudScapes info
Each piece is named after a rare cloud in an attempt to associate them with sounds through utilization of synthesis techniques including pulsar synthesis--as coined by Curtis Roads--and cross synthesis as well as filtering and feedback, while a good number of field recordings are employed.

Elif Yalvaç composes electronic music and studies Sonic Arts (MA) at Istanbul Technical University. 
hazalelif.wordpress.com

Castellanus (From CloudScapes EP - July 6, 2016)

From Elif Yalvaç's debut EP CloudScapes, as released on July 6
Visit hazalelif.bandcamp.com to download the individual track or EP.

CloudScapes info
Each piece is named after a rare cloud in an attempt to associate them with sounds through utilization of synthesis techniques including pulsar synthesis--as coined by Curtis Roads--and cross synthesis as well as filtering and feedback, while a good number of field recordings are employed. 

Elif Yalvaç composes electronic music and studies Sonic Arts (MA) at Istanbul Technical University. 
hazalelif.wordpress.com

Lenticularis (From CloudScapes EP - July 6, 2016)

Based in London, Elif Yalvaç (née Hazal Elif Yalvaç) is a producer, composer and guitarist from North Western Turkey. Her journey in sound started as a young girl getting enthusiastic about electric guitar and retro game audio. She has had an over a decade long presence in music with international appearances, especially in the UK, Iceland, and Norway, through solo and collaborative works and performances, music critic reviews, and radio features.

Having worked with others (including the Brooklyn-based label NNA Tapes in 2020) and independently, Elif pushes the boundaries and believes in the value of organic connections in the music scene, defying the obstacles posed by algorithms or capital-oriented PR agencies and their stakeholders. Her latest solo album “Vection” was released in April 2024 by Amsterdam-based label Moving Furniture Records under "Eliane Tapes" series dedicated to pioneering electronic music composer Eliane Radigue. 

Elif’s upcoming solo work features elements of speedcore, noise, IDM, drone, and ambient music, drawing on her versatile approaches and background in music, from using a Game Boy or from guitar playing and singing in rock and metal contexts to sound design with her own software tools for ambient music. Both in studio and live settings, Elif uses a number of instruments including a handmade synth that she calls “Freakbox”, her standard and baritone guitars and pedals, as well as software such as VCV Rack and Ableton Live. She values minimal setup in performance and making the most of limitations, while always attempting to explore and learn tools and instruments to experiment with.

Elif collaborates with others extensively, including Norwegian ambient music artist Kristoffer Lislegaard, her avantgarde metal project Diaries of Destruction; her collaborations with her partner Jordan Muscatello (electric & double bass), her contemporary ambient project with pianist Philamelian, and Green Drift with Expert Sleepers, and primarily with Michael Bearpark. She has performed with a wide range of artists internationally including Eraldo Bernocchi, Colin Edwin, Jon Durant, and Jono Podmore.

Alongside her performance and production efforts, Elif curates and hosts “Talk to the Chip”, a podcast on pioneering electronic music on Resonance FM with Jono Podmore. She is the curator of the bi-monthly live electronics event series “Heart of Noise Cambridge” at Cambridge Junction, and "Electronics At Eight" series in Milton Court Concert Hall in London for Guildhall School. Elif holds an MA degree in Music (Sonic Arts) from Istanbul Technical University, with a thesis on the creative and aesthetic value of limitations in the context of Chip Music. She teaches electronic music composition and production in Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she is the pathway leader for Electronic Music in EPM.