Field Recordings

Soundscape composed in MIAM Fall Semester (2015)
Thanks Kristoffer Lislegaard for contributing a lot with the recordings. 
And special thanks to Dr. Reuben de Lautour.

Locations: Bergen City Center, Hardangerfjord, Akerselva River

From Across The Fjords

Recorded on July 20 2016

Please credit me if you are going to use this recording for your own purposes

Singing Ringing Tree

Full version here: https://soundcloud.com/hazalelif/elif-yalvac-computer-music

Made from the sounds recorded at Imperial College's HPC Data Centre on July 7

Please credit me if you are going to use this recording for your own purposes

Computer Room is part of an ongoing field recording project focusing on recording of data centers. Field recordings were taken so far at HPC Imperial College London and UHeM Istanbul Technical University by Hazal Elif Yalvaç and Michael Bearpark. In the composition, the machines generating sounds as a result of workload are treated like ambient music and noise music machines. To this end, recordings are either processed intensively or left almost unprocessed to draw attention to the timbral and pitch characteristics and achieve a musical composition, i.e., music played by machines used at data centres.

Computer Room 1 excerpt

Mastered album version: https://hazalelif.bandcamp.com/track/computer-room

Computer Room is part of an ongoing field recording project focusing on recording of data centers. Field recordings were taken so far at HPC Imperial College London and UHeM Istanbul Technical University by Hazal Elif Yalvaç and Michael Bearpark. In the composition, the machines generating sounds as a result of workload are treated like ambient music and noise music machines. To this end, recordings are either processed intensively or left almost unprocessed to draw attention to the timbral and pitch characteristics and achieve a musical composition, i.e., music played by machines used at data centres.

Elif Yalvac - Computer Room (former version)

Istanbul Soundscape Project: Haydarpaşa'da Bir Gar

Yaklaşık yüz yıldır İstanbul ve Anadoluyu, Avrupa ile Ortadoğu’yu birbirine bağlayan bir düğüm noktası olan Haydarpaşa Garı şuan eskimeye bırakılan banliyö trenleriyle birlikte eski benliğinin, geçmişinin bir gölgesi durumunda. Otel olması için satılması planlanan, çatısında çıkan yangınla birlikte bir kısmı tahrip olduktan sonra son olarak yeniden gar olarak hizmet vereceği açıklanan ve altı yıldan beri tren sirenlerini duyamadığımız Haydarpaşa Garı’nın yokluğunda şehir yaşamında eksikliğini duyduğumuz sesler nelerdi? Trenlerin kalktığı, vapurların yanaştığı ve etrafında uçan yüzlerce martının harika bir senfoni yarattığı gar, yokluğunu hissettiğimiz bir toplu taşıma kompleksinin yanında akustik çehresi ve geçmişten günümüze şehrin ses manzarasına kattıklarıyla birlikte ISP’nin ikinci etkinliğinin konusu oldu.

Etkinlikte kent yaşamında duyabileceğimiz seslerin yanında, Haydarpaşa Garı ile anılabilecek 'ayrılık', 'kavuşma', 'başlangıç', 'bitiş', 'yolculuk' ve 'İstanbul' gibi bağlamlarla üretilen eserlerle birlikte Haydarpaşa’nın akustik çehresini dinlerken, senelerdir duymadığımız tren düdüklerine ve gar etrafındaki doğal hayatın sessel katkılarına kulak misafiri olabileceğiz. Onun üstünde ses sanatçısının mekan için besteledikleri eserleri çalacağı geceye, iki Alman mimar tarafından tasarlanmış bu yaşayan binayla duygusal bağı olan, tren yolculuklarını seven ve şehrin raylar üstündeki akustik ekolojisini merak eden herkesi bekliyoruz. 
İstanbul'un kapısı, Anadolu’dan Batıya giden trenlerin son durağı Haydarpaşa Garı ile bir an önce kavuşmak umuduyla.

**Istanbul Soundscape Project günlük kent yaşamına işitsel bir perspektiften yaklaşırken şehrin akustik ekolojisiyle ilgili farkındalık yaratmayı amaçlıyor. İstanbul'un hızla değişen kent atmosferi karşısında STK ve derneklerle işbirliği yaparak şehrin geleceğinde söz sahibi olmayı amaçlayan proje şehrin akustik ekolojisini korumak için İstanbul'u dinliyor, kaydediyor ve arşivliyor.

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The Istanbul Soundscape Project presents its second event: A Station in Haydarpaşa.
A knot coalescing; the meeting point of Europe and the Middle East for nearly a century, Haydarpaşa Station is now a shadow of its past. In the last five years it has been planned to be sold as a hotel, the roof burned, and then finally, again, announced that it will serve as a station. We have not heard the train whistles of Haydarpasa since six years now. What were the voices we felt, lacking in city life, in the absence of the Haydarpasa Railway Station?
Haydarpaşa Railway Station is a place where the trains depart, the ferries approach, and hundreds of seagulls fly around creating a symphony. Its acoustics, ambience, and all its contributions to the city's soundscape is the subject of ISP’s second event.

In addition to the voices that we can hear in the city life, we can hear the pieces composed within the context of 'separation', 'reunion', 'beginning', 'ending', 'journey', and 'Istanbul’ which we can relate with Haydarpasa. Around ten musicians will play the works they composed. If you are wondering about the city's acoustic ecology on the rails you are invited!
Hoping to travel with Haydarpaşa Station as soon as possible.

Selcuk Artut
Tuna Pase
Ipek Gorgun
Alp Tuğan
Sair Sinan Kestelli
Zeynep Özkan
Esra Genç
Mirko Ettore D'Agostino
Pieter Snapper
Ahmetcan Gökçeer
Gökalp Kanatsız
Görkem Özdemir
Hazal Elif Yalvaç
Kıvanç Tatar
Ozcan Ertek
posters & illustrations Mark Hale

Hazal Elif Yalvac - Dearly Departed

Elif Yalvaç (née Hazal Elif Yalvaç) is a producer, composer and guitarist. Her music has received international acclaim including reviews in The Guardian, and The Wire, alongside features and broadcasts including WDR and BBC. Her works embrace opposites: microsound glitches and slow builds; celestial beauty and abrasive energy. Her latest solo album “Vection” was released in April 2024 by the Amsterdam-based experimental music label Moving Furniture Records under the Eliane Tapes series dedicated to Eliane Radigue.

Elif collaborates with others extensively, including her avantgarde metal project Diaries of Destruction with bassist Jordan Muscatello and her album Green Drift with Expert Sleepers (September 2022). She has performed with a wide range of artists internationally including Eraldo Bernocchi, Colin Edwin, Jon Durant, Darkroom, and Jono Podmore.

Elif holds an MA degree in Sonic Arts from Istanbul Technical University and regularly delivers workshops and podcasts on electronic music including co-hosting “Talk to the Chip” on Resonance FM with Jono Podmore. Elif teaches electronic music at GSMD in London. She is the curator of the bi-monthly live electronics event series “Heart of Noise Cambridge” at Cambridge Junction. Endorsed by Arts Council England, Elif is based in the UK with a Global Talent Visa.