IGNAZ SCHICK – ISTANBUL DIARIES with Şevket Akınçı, Ali Onur Olgun, Anıl Eraslan, Ulrich Mertin, Merve Salgar, Amy Salsgiver, Fulya Uçanok 03.05.2025

INVITATION to a Durational Concert Installation

IGNAZ SCHICK – ISTANBUL DIARIES

with Şevket Akınçı, Ali Onur Olgun, Anıl Eraslan, Ulrich Mertin, Merve Salgar, Amy Salsgiver, Fulya Uçanok

3.5. & 4.5.2025, 5pm-9pm at the Orient-Institut Istanbul

Istanbul Diaries is based on Ignaz Schick’s research he conducted during his 2018 – 2023 residencies at Kulturakadmie Tarabya, a research about how the megalopolis sounds.

This durational concert installation of about 4 hours length combines sound and video installations, graphic / video scores, field recordings, ensemble conductions and small group improvisations involving 7 important experimental / contemporary musicians and protagonists of the vivid Istanbul music scene. Like this a unique sonic mapping and portrait of this special city is created in a marathon like setting.

In different sections musicians will perform solo, or in small groups and from time to time the performers will gather in orchestral large group situations to condense and concentrate the musical flow. At times musicians will be playing or interacting with the projections which start to function as graphic or video scores with pre-arranged instructions for the players. The presented musical material can be of acoustic, electro-acoustic or electronic nature and visual footage (photos, videos) can transform & become the source material from which graphic scores and instructions are derived. Drawing from the wide range and community of the Istanbul experimental scene with musicians from such stylistic backgrounds as Improvisation, Contemporary Music, Noise, Sound Art, Electro-Acoustic or Turkish Traditional Music the composition will collage, sample, layer and re-compose this potential with the never resting original and archetypical soundscape of the city. A lot of the used (audiovisual) footage is collected in real by the composer or comes from different archives, thrift stores and fellow artist colleagues who kindly provide some of their unique footage they collected during their stay.

Ignaz Schick was residing as a sound art/composition fellow at the Kulturakademie Tarabya artist in residence program in Istanbul to research and work on his sound-mapping project „Istanbul Diaries“ from September 2018 until early January 2019. The research Schick conducted was to investigate the many sonic layers of the megalopolis of Istanbul. In addition to collecting numerous urban soundscapes and field recording in endless walks and field trips Schick also attempted to get an overview of the manifold experimental sound and music scenes. During his four month stay Schick accumulated more than 80 hours of Istanbul recordings. Countless field recordings of both known sonic icons but also recordings of the ever expanding city with its obscure no-mans-lands and in-between spaces (highwaybridges and underpasses, airport approach corridors, gigantic construction sites, etc.) but also interviews of and sessions with various musicians of the local experimental music scene. Originally planed as a meticulous Istanbul sound map (which seems an impossible mission) and throughout the process more and more used as a still growing archive.

In 2019 he used the raw materials of this archive for composing a four part sound walk which was presented during the Tarabya summer festival in four different outside positions in the old park of the Kulturakademie. The loud speakers were hidden in old buildings, bushes, or behind trees and hedges, so that the passer buy would be unexpectedly surprised with the electro-acoustic re-composition of the original Istanbul footage. The project was a large success and as a follow up the idea of the concert installation/promenade concert was born.

This event is a is a co-production of Zangi Music / Zarek Berlin and a joint event between the Goethe Institute Istanbul, Kulturakademie Tarabya  and the Orient-Institut Istanbul.

It is free of charge. To join this invitation please register. Photos or videos will be taken during the event. By participating, you agree that these may be used on the OII website, newsletter and social media. The event will not be recorded.

VENUE

Orient-Institut Istanbul

Galip Dede Cad. 65, Şahkulu Mah., TR – 34421 Istanbul

Tel: +90 212 293 60 67 oiist@oiist.org www.oiist.org

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