Thursday 17.06
at 20:30

Wire-tapping #6

New music at Barbur

A multi-cultural electro-acoustic musical collaboration, between Korhan Erel (Turkey, Electronics), Kevin Davis (USA, Cello) and Tom Soloveitzik (Saxophones). Korhan and Kevin are both extremely talented and original musicians, active in the Istanbul and Chicago improvised music scenes, and we feel honored to host them. The trio has been working together and performing for some time, and is planned to record during the current visit to Israel.

Series editor: Tom Soloveitzik

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Korhan Erel: computer and electronics musician, performer, improviser, composer. Turkish composer / improvisor based in Istanbul. He is a founding member of Islak Kopek, Turkey’s pioneer free improvisation group. He performed and had compositions played in radios, festivals in Turkey, Austria, Australia, Holland, Germany, Finland and Ireland. He performed telematic concerts over Skype in Germany, Spain and the US.
Korhan approaches computer performances from a conventional instrument approach. He refrains from using many sound layers and frequency ranges in order to leave space for acoustic and electric instruments he plays with. He also plays melodica and Cracklebox in ensemble performances. For his solo performances, he augments the computer with other sound sources, such as analog electronics (modular synths, guitar effects, oscillators, digital effects). He plays his computer instruments similar to a conventional instrument player - the laptop is the “sound body” and the “resonators”, the controllers are the “exciters”. The screen is occasionally used for monitoring software status and is not used as a part of the performance, thus avoiding the typical look of the laptop musician, staring at the screen all throughout a performance. He uses Wiimotes and a iPod Touch as the “fretboards” for his instruments.
Korhan’s compositions blend industrial sounds, found sounds, abstract sound textures and acoustic instruments into sound collages. He is currently working on new instrument designs on Audiomulch and Ableton Live that will enable him to create instant compositions and sound collages for solo and group performances as well as playing with dancers, video artists.
Korhan has been recording with Islak Köpek and other improvisers. Among others, Korhan has played with the following artists: Jonas Kocher, Le Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda.

Kevin Davis is an improviser, composer and cellist. Born and raised in Appalachian Tennessee, he earned a degree in music composition from the University of Memphis. After a period of post-graduate study in Memphis and Boston, he began working in the fertile experimental music scenes of Chicago and New York, recording and touring in the United States and Europe. Kevin relocated to İstanbul in 2008. He has recently completed a Master’s degree at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) and will soon be returning to the United States to pursue a PhD in music at the University of Virginia.
Kevin has recorded, performed, and improvised with many excellent musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Ken Vandermark, and Fred Lonberg-Holm among many others. His own projects include duo recordings with Dave Rempis, and the trio Locksmith Isidore. He now performs with the İstanbul-based Islak Köpek and co-directs the MIAM Improvisation Ensemble.

Tom Soloveitzik: Tom’s music walks the line between improvisation and composition, places the element of sound at center-stage, and is based on the interaction between musicians in real-time. He studied at the University of Haifa and at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Tom has played in Israel, New York and Istanbul and performed with John Butcher, Barre Phillips and J.C Jones, among others. He works with dancers, plays in Trek Duo with Nitay Levi and curates the ‘Wiretapping’ series in Barbur gallery in Jerusalem.

Thursday June 17th 2010, 12:00 am