Furkan Keçeli and Mehmet Korkmaz create connection points between various studio tools and computers during their live performance. Human-computer interaction models are placed at the centre of musical composition, and these composed systems are performed on stage. While data processing has become more prevalent in art, different approaches and composition techniques still exist in contemporary and popular music. Here, the performance estimates our potential to read human-computer interaction as a traditional music score. The performance also acts as a device for preserving the transformations generated by the performer’s interpretation and the composer’s imagination.

The concert is organised as part of the festival Moussem Cities: Istanbul. For one month, the multidisciplinary festival Moussem Cities offers a diverse program of exhibitions, participatory projects, performance art, literature, film screenings, concerts, and discussions.

Biographies

Furkan Keçeli studied at the Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Music and completed his master’s degree with honours in Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in Belgium. His works have been performed by various ensembles across Türkiye and Europe, including SPECTRA, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Camerata RCO, Oerknal, ADAM Quartet, and Awkas. He participated in a Belgian tour as part of the Pasklaar Project and served as a composer assistant in Bushra El-Turk’s opera Woman at Point Zero. His articles have been published by Manifold, Arter, Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation, and Mousse Publishing. He worked on the sound design for Gülsün Karamustafa’s Hollow and Broken: A State of the World, exhibited in the Türkiye Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, and contributed to the accompanying publication. He has been part of Manifold’s editorial team since 2021 and continues his doctoral studies in the field of composition at the Istanbul Technical University Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (ITU MIAM).

Mehmet Korkmaz was born in 1993 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Department of Sonic Arts at Istanbul Technical University Centre for Advanced Studies in Music. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Sonic Arts and has worked as a producer, performer, and composer on projects like Pesüs’s Balkonda Deniz, Deli Bakkal’s Kime Kime Bu?, Şevket Akıncı’s Dünyada Saat Kaç? and Meskûn Mahal.

Practical information

Doors: 18:30
Duration: 45 minutes
Reservation on the festival website
Price: Support 8 € / reduced 5 €
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