Esin Gunduz
Composer |
Vocal performer

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︎Works
as a Composer

︎En-he-du-an-na-me-en 𒈾
2020

-- based on an ancient Sumerian text by Enheduanna (𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾), En-he-du-an-na-me-en explores the struggle and resistance of a silenced woman becoming resonant again!
- for voice & electronics

︎Sounding Spaces︎
2021

( The excerpt is best heard with 🎧. )
-- ...embodying musical resonances across time, geography, and genre. Created from various recordings of Senso di Voce, playing their programs designed for the acoustics of the grain silos.
- six speaker sound installation.

Sounding Spaces: PASSAGE, 2021

-- extends the passages we build in our live performances, through new layers of transforming materials, to create an experience that resonates the transitional space between the past and the now.
- six-speaker sound installation. Sound exciters, amplifiers, foam board, wire. 15 minutes 42 seconds, looped.

︎Lights on Inanna ︎
2016-17

-- based on three ancient Sumerian tablets, on both the humanity’s cultural / psychological projections on women and the multiplicity within female soul.

- for ensemble of five players (each doubling) + electronics (recorded voices)

︎coniunctio︎
2019-20

-- based on the medieval alchemical processes, on the way that the relationship between one’s work and her soul is aimed to become through alchemical processes.
- for two mouth-harmonicas
*It doesn’t require professional harmonica players.

︎Interludes ︎
2019

-- excerpt from “Interludes’ written for Senso di Voce, composed to function as interludes throughout a repertoire of early music and contemporary improvisations.
- for oboe and voice

︎Iron Softens in Union ︎
2012-13

-- 3rd movement of States of Iron, imagining the intense acoustical interference between instruments, as an amalgam of metal and spirit.
- for bass flute, bass clarinet, and voice

︎Sense of Energy ︎2018

--the sense and the bodily experience of types of physical energies, are imagined as sound and translated into physical vibrations of sound:
. contained potential
. lift-induced drag
. potential to kinetic - for two or more instrument(s) | voice(s)

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Senso di Voce:
Sonic Impressions
(c) 2021

-- includes Esin’s work: Bogalele (2021), inspired by the cantu a tenòre tradition of Sardinia and the throat-playing tradition of the Teke Nomads in South Turkey.

About
Senso di Voce

︎Senso di Voce website

from Tyshawn Sorey’s
Autoschediasms

w/ Phillip Greenlief
Improvisatory Ensemble

from Interludes © 2019
w/Senso di Voce

from Aliya Ultan’s
Become a House

from As above, so below
w/ Senso di Voce
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