Kekeme (Stutterer)

"Apturtuduci" submission track for AmbientOnline.org One Sample Dare Challenge 9.

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Apturtuduci

ConnectiveTissue - Marina Kifferstein, violin

Kemençe/Voice: Nermin Kaygusuz. Microtonal Guitar: Tolgahan Çoğulu

Havuz

Akşam yine toplandı derinde…
Canan gülüyor eski yerinde.
Canan ki gündüzleri gelmez,
Akşam görünür havz üzerinde.
Mehtab kemer taze belinde,
Üstünde sema gizli bir örtü,
Yıldızlar onun güldür elinde…

Ahmet Haşim, Piyale, 1926

POOL 

Deep down, the night has massed again 
My darling smiles in her wonted place 
My darling who doesn't come by day 
Appears at night by the pool.

The moonlight a sash for her waist 
The heavens her secret veil 
The stars roses in her hand. 

Translation: Bernard Lewis

Havuz

This piece was inspired by Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi's quotation; create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave." Brancusi's modern and minimalist sculptural style was also a source of inspiration for me. However, I did not intend to create a minimalist expression but aimed to convey Brancusi's style from my perspective.

In general, the piece consists of an extended crescendo and diminuendo respectively. As Iannis Xenakis notes, the terms crescendo and diminuendo do not simply refer to dynamics; they are applicable to increases and decreases in any parameter. In this piece, in addition to the prelude and postlude, we perceive a crescendo and diminuendo in the intensity of the instrumental build-up. The piece is constructed with transitional sections connected to each other through "injections" of gradual transitions of various parameters.

Brancusi (for string orchestra)

dedicated to my professor, Onur Türkmen

Hezarfen Ensemble
conductor : Orhun Orhon

Bilkent University Concert Hall- 2017

Encounters

performed by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Domaine Forget, 2012) - Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor

Burrowed Time (2012) - for chamber ensemble

Igor Santos, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound

Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 28, 2018

"...what does it mean when some tune follows you, occurs to you [...] in the middle of thoughts of a quite different kind?" - Theodor Reik (1960)

through thoughts of a different kind

Mombacho
for harp, guitar, cimbalom, double bass and electronics
by Gabriel Bolaños Chamorro
réalisation informatique musicale: Monica Gil Giraldo
2019

commissioned by CIRM, National Center for Creation of Music (Nice, France) 
for the 2019 MANCA festival 
work done in the studios of CIRM
premiered by Ensemble C. Barré

Located in Granada, Nicaragua, the Mombacho is an active volcano with a tropical rainforest on its summit. When I lived near the volcano, I would frequently hike in the rainforest, and became fascinated by the volcano’s rich sonic ecosystem. Thousands of different species of insects, birds, reptiles, and other animals that inhabit the rainforest create complex overlapping sounds that mix with the natural soundscape of the weather, the trees, and even the human inhabitants of the Mombacho.

This piece was inspired by this beautiful sound world. It is an exploration of the cyclical, diurnal, and seasonal changes of the rainforest’s sonic ecosystem. The quartet plays a variety of textures that continuously evolve through a slow microtonal harmonic progression, while each instrument is amplified and spatialized around the audience using a surround-sound ambisonic speaker setup. The audience is immersed in the ensemble’s sound while it constantly moves, evolves and interacts in the space around them. 

To complement the instrumental sound of the quartet, and to add an additional element of unfamiliarity, an electronic tape part is synchronized with the instrumentalists and also spatialized around the audience. Most of the tape part was produced by recording household objects, and processing them with various studio techniques, and occasionally with a Buchla modular synthesizer. The goal was to create en electronic part that sounds as natural and organic as possible, that blends with the plucked strings of the ensemble, while complementing the quartet’s timbral palette.

Kekeme (Stutterer)

Mahir Cetiz