"on disembodiment and resistance" for 5 amplified voices with spatial projection, live electronics, and 4-channel tape

Performance by The Present Ensemble at Mehrlicht!Musik, at Studiosaal, Berlin, 26th November 2022.

Voice 1: Hanna Herfurtner
Voice 2: Olivia Stahn
Voice 3: Amélie Saadia
Voice 4: Will Frost 
Voice 5: Mert Moralı

on disembodiment and resistance (2022) / version a

Drawing The Sun <excerpt>

for treble voice and piano
Commissioned by Brooklyn Art Song Society for New Voices Festival 2024, Departures II
Text: Sholeh Wolpé (selected from "Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse")
Charlotte Mundy: Voice
Nathaniel LaNasa: Piano

World premiere at First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, May 2, 2024
Audio Engineer: Ron Anderson
Artwork: "Oak Fractured by Lightning" by Maxim Vorobiev, 1842

Language of Loss

Enregistré en concert le 7 février 2016
Caroli Forsämlingshem
Borås, Suède

Quatuor Bozzini (Clemens Merkel, Alissa Cheung, violons; Stéphanie Bozzini, alto; Isabelle Bozzini, violoncelle)

Johanna Magdelena Beyer - Music Of The Spheres

Spontaneous improvisation on the organ featured in Zhanna Kadyrova's artwork "Russian Contemporary Baroque" at Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice (Italy).

June 20th, 2024. Performed by Matthias Krüger.

Recording by Ferdinand Grätz, mix by Matthias Krüger.

Organ Improvisation at Palazzo Contarini Polignac (Venice)

Mert Moralı is a Berlin-based composer from Izmir, Turkey, whose current research and artistic focus lies on prosthesis and corporeality in-relation and how this relationship is conditioned by space and particularly its socio-political connotations.

He is the recipient of first prize in the duo category at Wilde Lieder - Marx.Music Composing Competition in Trier, Germany and J.J. Strossmayer Prize at Novalis Festival in Osijek, Croatia. Also, he was a composer in residence at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany.

Moralı’s works have been heard at many festivals, such as Bauhaus Festival, Festival Mixtur, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, KONTAKTE Festival, protonwerk, and Ultraschall Berlin, and performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, ensemble proton bern, georg katzer ensemble, hand werk, Hezarfen Ensemble, KNM Berlin, modern art ensemble, United Instruments of Lucilin, and many others. He attended workshops led by composers, including Mark Andre, Franck Bedrossian, Pierluigi Billone, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Stefano Gervasoni, Liza Lim, Isabel Mundry, and Marco Stroppa.

He studied composition primarily with Tolga Yayalar and Turgut Pöğün at Bilkent University in Ankara and with Eun-Hwa Cho at "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music. He also studied Electroacoustic Music at "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music with Wolfgang Heiniger.

on disembodiment and resistance (2022) / version a

Mert Morali

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