ISTANBUL RELOADED

5 Oct 2005

Date: Wed 5th October
Location: De Melkweg, Theaterzaal, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam

Time:Performances: 20.30 - 22.30 hours
Entrance performances: euro 10,-
Time: Panel: 16.00 - 18.00 hours (free)

Bookings: 020 – 5318181
URL: www.melkweg.nl (under media)

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ISTANBUL RELOADED invites you to reload your sonic perception, and sample the diversity of Istanbuli experimental sound art.

Istanbul evokes many connotations ranging from the mysterious riches of Byzantium to the throbbing capital of the Eurasian world Constantinople. History books and travel guides have imprinted an image on us ranging from orientalist fairy tale dreams to a modern metropolis negotiating tradition and future, east and west. We can picture Istanbul visually with all its landmarks, and have probably eavesdropped on Turkish pop and traditional music. However, how diversified is that perception?
As the cultural capital of Turkey, Istanbul boasts a small, but exceptional experimental electronic music scene, probes the new possibilities real-time processing and other technologies allow for performance and composition, sometimes merging traditional Turkish influences and instruments with the aesthetics of contemporary electronics. 

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PROGRAM: Wed 5th October

ISTANBUL RELOADED: performance
20.30 - 22.00 hours, entrance: € 10
Erdem Helvacioglu (TR)
Cev Edit (TR/NL)
Anabala (Murat Ertel & Ceren Aykut) (TR)

ISTANBUL RELOADED: panel
16.00 – 18.00 hours, entrance: free
Participants:
Cevdet Erek (TR/NL),
Erdem Helvacioglu (TR),
Anabala (Murat Ertel & Ceren Aykut) (TR),
Abdullah Hendrik Geels (NL)
Moderation: Nat Muller (NL)

URLs:
www.erdemhelvacioglu.com/
www.babazula.com/
www.audiomaze.com/
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ISTANBUL RELOADEDis part of “Xeno_Sonic: Experimental Music Mapping in the Middle East???, a project and initiative of Nat Muller in collaboration with De Melkweg.

ISTANBUL RELOADED is kindly supported by VSBfonds, Mondriaanfonds, Fonds voor Amateur en podiumkunsten, Stichting Kulsan, Fonds voor Podium-Programmering & Marketing. The research phase of Xeno_Sonic was supported by The Netherlands foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
 
Editor’s note
For more information, visual material or interviews, contact:
Publiciteit Melkweg: Esther Lagendijk | tel: 020-5318167 | fax: 020-5318118 | esther@melkweg.nl