Experimental / noise from Turkey

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Sub Rosa put out An Anthology Of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014 2xCD set (parts of it also on vinyl). Bought it while ago and listened the stuff. Curiously there is basically one guy from the old times. Bülent Arel*, who has the opening piece. It is not recorded in Turkey, but at that time he was already moved to USA. Rest of double CD has like couple tracks from 2nd half of 90's and vast majority of tracks from 2000's. A lot of it leaning closer to date when this was published.

Last summer I was checking some documentation of NOISE ISTAMBUL 2 fest. Line-up of one day was very much like giving Turkish audience possibility to see foreign stuff.. different countries, new old, harsh, industrial, experimental... KAZUMOTO ENDO, JOHN DUNCAN, SHE SPREAD SORROW, PURGIST, GOVERNMENT ALPHA, SATORI, KASPER T. TOEPLITZ, LUCA SIGURTA, DEZROY ADAM.. but curiously.. no Turkish artists on 2 days bill?

If there is audience for two days of noise, it generally means there is makers of noise out there. The Sub Rosa compilation is already documentation of situation roughly decade ago. Anyone been following what's up with noise of Turkey?

Here full set of Kazumoto Endo with multiple camera angles and perhaps a bit boomy and sub-bass loaded sound, but crank it louder and good to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8yzXfMpe8


https://www.discogs.com/release/8509667-Various-An-Anthology-Of-Turkish-Experimental-Music-1961-2014

*

Bülent Arel (23 April 1919 in Istanbul - 24 November 1990 in Stony Brook, New York) was a Turkish-US-american composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music. He studied composition at the Ankara Conservatory and sound engineering in Paris. In 1959 he was invited to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In 1962, he worked with Edgard Varèse on the electronic sections of Varèse's Deserts. He also designed and installed the electronic music laboratory at Yale University, and he established the electronic music program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught from 1971 until his retirement in 1989. He invented the 'splicing tape dispenser', as well as other devices for tape handling. He was a pioneer of looping techniques.

[scumwalski]

Having played the show in Istanbul I can only say that the turnout was amazingly good, as evidenced by the photo documentation taken at the venue, which can be easily found at the show's social media profile. The audience was clearly interested and knowledgeable about noise.

Curiously enough, there was a terrorist attack near the venue the day after the show. Right about when I was at the airport about to depart back home.

[nezalezhnye]

Curiously enough, there was a terrorist attack near the venue the day after the show.

Perfect

[tiny_tove]

I'm totally ignorant on scene in Turkey, yet several people contacted me from ther to buy stuff. The lady who translated the comics I wrote in Turkish was also into underground music. but I lost contact when they closed my twitter account.
I remember there was a very active guy called Batur Somnerz (or something similar, sorry for the bad spelling in case you are reading), of Analog Suicide who did a devastating live set in Berlin when we played at the same festival some years ago. Very high frequencies that surely didn't did good for my tinnitus. I know he organised several shows in Instanbul.
I'm very atttracted by the country, interesting history and some great cinema and traditional music.