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I like to use analytic and minimal expressions. My experiments include various forms of counterpoint, distortion and noise, microtonality, electroacoustic improvisation, and various regional melodic and rythmic elements of the middle east and balkans.

My structural themes include closed and semi-closed orbits, stochastic patterns, partitioning, decomposition and disintegration of order, self similarity / self reference, and the seemingly infinite finite. I'm interested in the "surreal flirt", religious trance (zikir), socio-pathological and autistic mindsets, hallucinations, and the aesthetics of dissonant and kitsch.

Sample below.

 

Melodic Engineering

Piece for Gene: Dedicated to the cowboy shaman of Champaign.

Meditations on a Picture of Dr. Z: Ordinary mating sounds of a neo-romantic contrapunctal animal. 

An Inelegant Sketch: Piano piece.

The Epic of Failure: Piano piece.

Knots and Folds: An amusing baroque piece

Grainy / Kitch

Biyonik Safiye ve Biber Çiçeği (~ The Bionic Girl and The Pepper Plant): Eleven beat analytic kitsch with electroacoustic ornamentation

The Divine Ass Shake Algorithm: A study on jazz, quarter-tones and rhythm.

Sema: A study on quarter-tones and distortion.


Childhood Pieces

River: A Song for voice and two baglamas, digitally rendered.

Green Drops: An Ancient Piece

 

 

Experiments on Texture

Fevkalbeşer Dumduma: Poly-heterophonic Ottoman textures that came out during troubled ponderings on Wittgenstein.

Heterophonic Textures: A 31 beat piece with wild coloration.

A Hole in Sebastian's Pants: A heterophonic toy fugue. The subject is chosen from the piece Fevkalbeşer Dumduma.


Improvisations

Piece for Hrant: Imitation of bird sounds via kaval and ocarina, dedicated to Hrant Dink. All tracks improvised.

Song for Mustafa: Dedicated to my deceased friend Mustafa. All tracks improvised.

A Game for Two Hands and a Throat: A Demonstration on how to waste a throat.

 

Wave Design

(Recent) The Humming Song: Exercise on granular synthesis.

The Fine Structure of an Ultrasonic Orgasm. In cooperation with Emre Can Ozis.

 

Dervis Vural

Dervis Can Vural