Esin Gunduz
Composer |
Vocal performer
︎Selected Works
as a Composer
_____________
lullaby
mourning song
both
easing us
into
︎
sleep
︎Iron Softens in Union
from: States of Iron
©2012-13
Looking at /
Towards /
On top of
Mount Ağrı ︎
©2013
︎Sense of Energy
©2018
If the Water Has Memory
©2009*
Choreographed version with:
Mariana Lucia Marquez
... referring to the earthly phenomena of water remembering substances that were previously dissolved in it, this piece imagines that the rivers remember the songs that were sung for them!
Folk songs from different regions of the world that are about rivers (and often sung along the riversides), were compiled, performed, recorded, and composed.
— for electronics:
recorded voices.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics in 2009.
In To Selves
©2014
In collaboration with
chroeographer Melanie Aceto
Composer |
Vocal performer
︎Selected Works
as a Composer
︎En-he-du-an-na-me-en
©2020 In Close Collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton, mezzosoprano
Medea Travelling
©2022, ©2023, and ongoing
In collaboration with
the project creators:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, and Yasemin Nur
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Click here or on the image to hear an excerpt.
︎multi-disciplinary (2022): Medea “on -a thin- line
... the myth of Medea is reconsidered, producing a critical look at all the texts. In these performances, video art, installation, experimental sound installation, performance and interactive theater are intertwined in a unique space!
︎theatre play (2023): Medea Fine-Tuning (2023)
As part of a multidisciplinary project inspired by Greek mythology, Medea, Fine-Tuning gives a modern spin to the wild story of Medea by setting the current political trajectory as the background.
upcoming: feature art-film (2024)
— for voice & electronics
︎Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
︎coniunctio
©2019-20
Tremolo harmonicas were used in this recording. Professional harmonica players are not required.
Interludes
©2019
with Senso di Voce
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
©2020 In Close Collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton, mezzosoprano
Medea Travelling
©2022, ©2023, and ongoing
In collaboration with
the project creators:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, and Yasemin Nur
Click here or on the image to hear an excerpt.
︎multi-disciplinary (2022): Medea “on -a thin- line
... the myth of Medea is reconsidered, producing a critical look at all the texts. In these performances, video art, installation, experimental sound installation, performance and interactive theater are intertwined in a unique space!
︎theatre play (2023): Medea Fine-Tuning (2023)
As part of a multidisciplinary project inspired by Greek mythology, Medea, Fine-Tuning gives a modern spin to the wild story of Medea by setting the current political trajectory as the background.
upcoming: feature art-film (2024)
— for voice & electronics
︎Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
Sounding Spaces: Passage 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.
—instrumentation of the performances on the recording: voice, oboe, English Horn, and tremolo harmonium.
—six-speaker sound installation:
Sound exciters, amplifiers, foam board, wire.
—instrumentation of the performances on the recording: voice, oboe, English Horn, and tremolo harmonium.
︎coniunctio
©2019-20
Tremolo harmonicas were used in this recording. Professional harmonica players are not required.
Interludes
©2019
with Senso di Voce
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
“A worldly renown is nothing, other than a breath of wind
that blows now here, now there
and changes name
when it has changed its course.”
Prugatory XI. 100
Divine Comedy (1320)
Dante Alighieri
... Click the text for more.
that blows now here, now there
and changes name
when it has changed its course.”
Prugatory XI. 100
Divine Comedy (1320)
Dante Alighieri
... Click the text for more.
_____________
lullaby
mourning song
both
easing us
into
︎
sleep
︎Iron Softens in Union
from: States of Iron
©2012-13
Looking at /
Towards /
On top of
Mount Ağrı ︎
©2013
...on quotes from Pushkin, Özakman, and Nietzsche:
1.
“I looked at the legendary Mount Ağrı, with all my might...” / “Efsanevi dağ Ağrı’ya, var gücümle baktım...”
Alexander Pushkin
2.
“Atatürk, he resembles a big mountain, as you get closer becomes bigger and bigger in your eyes...” / “Atatürk bir dağa benzer, yaklaştıkça gözünüzde büyür...”
Turgut Özakman
3.
“One who climbs the highest mountains laughs at all those tragic games, tragic reality...” / “En yüce dağlara tırmanan, güler bütün acıklı oyunlara, acıklı gerçeklere...”
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— for cello and voice
1.
“I looked at the legendary Mount Ağrı, with all my might...” / “Efsanevi dağ Ağrı’ya, var gücümle baktım...”
Alexander Pushkin
2.
“Atatürk, he resembles a big mountain, as you get closer becomes bigger and bigger in your eyes...” / “Atatürk bir dağa benzer, yaklaştıkça gözünüzde büyür...”
Turgut Özakman
3.
“One who climbs the highest mountains laughs at all those tragic games, tragic reality...” / “En yüce dağlara tırmanan, güler bütün acıklı oyunlara, acıklı gerçeklere...”
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— for cello and voice
︎Sense of Energy
©2018
If the Water Has Memory
©2009*
Choreographed version with:
Mariana Lucia Marquez
Folk songs from different regions of the world that are about rivers (and often sung along the riversides), were compiled, performed, recorded, and composed.
— for electronics:
recorded voices.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics in 2009.
©2014
In collaboration with
chroeographer Melanie Aceto
Senso di Voce
excerpt from improvisation set
at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
...
Senso di Voce presents:
SONIC IMPRESSIONS
©2021
In collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery,
Senso di Voce presents a virtual concert inspired by the exhibition: “Renaissance Impressions: Sixteenth-Century Master Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection”
... which explores the emergence and transformative impact of the print medium on the visual culture of Renaissance Europe.
Curated by Senso di Voce, the concert 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 Southern Turkey!
Senso di Voce
learn about
who we are
excerpt from
Senso di Voce presents:
As above, so below
(2018)
Senso di Voce released the full hour long video of this concert with spatialized sound and stunning visuals from the Silo City (that the performance took place in):
Please find the link on our website
...and consider supporting us with a small donation!
︎Senso di Voce website
excerpt from
Interludes ©2019
for
Senso di Voce
︎
As Featured in
Larger Ensembles:
solo moment
within Tyshawn Sorey’s
Autoschediasms
with Phillip Greenlief
Improvisatory Ensemble
excerpt from Aliya Ultan’s
Become a House
Copyright © 2020 Esin Gunduz.
Composer | Vocal performer
Esin Gunduz
Composer |
Vocal performer
︎Selected Works
as a Composer
Looking at /
Towards /
On top of
Mount Ağrı ︎
©2013
︎Sense of Energy
©2018
©2014
In collaboration with
chroeographer Melanie Aceto
— for sound and movement:
singing & moving vocalist and
dancing & vocalizing choreographer
︎Selected recordings of:
Vocal Performance | Improvisation | Movement | Curation
Composer |
Vocal performer
︎Selected Works
as a Composer
︎En-he-du-an-na-me-en
©2020 In Close Collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton, mezzosoprano
Medea Travelling
©2022, ©2023, and ongoing
In collaboration with the project creators:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, and Yasemin Nur
![]()
Click here / on the image to hear an excerpt.
︎multi-disciplinary (2022): Medea “on -a thin- line
... the myth of Medea is reconsidered, producing a critical look at all the texts. In these performances, video art, installation, experimental sound installation, performance and interactive theater are intertwined in a unique space!
︎theatre play (2023): Medea Fine-Tuning (2023)
As part of a multidisciplinary project inspired by Greek mythology, Medea, Fine-Tuning gives a modern spin to the wild story of Medea by setting the current political trajectory as the background.
upcoming: feature art-film (2024)
— for voice & electronics
︎Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
︎coniunctio
©2019-20
Tremolo harmonicas were used in this recording. Professional harmonica players are not required.
Interludes
©2019
with Senso di Voce
︎Iron Softens in Union
from: States of Iron
©2012-13
![]()
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
©2020 In Close Collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton, mezzosoprano
Medea Travelling
©2022, ©2023, and ongoing
In collaboration with the project creators:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, and Yasemin Nur
Click here / on the image to hear an excerpt.
︎multi-disciplinary (2022): Medea “on -a thin- line
... the myth of Medea is reconsidered, producing a critical look at all the texts. In these performances, video art, installation, experimental sound installation, performance and interactive theater are intertwined in a unique space!
︎theatre play (2023): Medea Fine-Tuning (2023)
As part of a multidisciplinary project inspired by Greek mythology, Medea, Fine-Tuning gives a modern spin to the wild story of Medea by setting the current political trajectory as the background.
upcoming: feature art-film (2024)
— for voice & electronics
︎Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
Sounding Spaces: Passage 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.
—instrumentation of the performances on the recording: voice, oboe, English Horn, and tremolo harmonium.
—six-speaker sound installation:
Sound exciters, amplifiers, foam board, wire.
—instrumentation of the performances on the recording: voice, oboe, English Horn, and tremolo harmonium.
︎coniunctio
©2019-20
Tremolo harmonicas were used in this recording. Professional harmonica players are not required.
Interludes
©2019
with Senso di Voce
︎Iron Softens in Union
from: States of Iron
©2012-13
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
“A worldly renown is nothing, other than a breath of wind
that blows now here, now there
and changes name
when it has changed its course.”
Prugatory XI. 100
Divine Comedy (1320)
Dante Alighieri
... Click the text for more.
— for two violas and electronics
that blows now here, now there
and changes name
when it has changed its course.”
Prugatory XI. 100
Divine Comedy (1320)
Dante Alighieri
... Click the text for more.
____________
lullaby
mourning song
both
easing us
into
︎
sleep
lullaby
mourning song
both
easing us
into
︎
sleep
— for two violas and electronics
Looking at /
Towards /
On top of
Mount Ağrı ︎
©2013
...on quotes from Pushkin, Özakman, and Nietzsche:
1.
“I looked at the legendary Mount Ağrı, with all my might...” / “Efsanevi dağ Ağrı’ya, var gücümle baktım...”
Alexander Pushkin
2.
“Atatürk, he resembles a big mountain, as you get closer becomes bigger and bigger in your eyes...” / “Atatürk bir dağa benzer, yaklaştıkça gözünüzde büyür...”
Turgut Özakman
3.
“One who climbs the highest mountains laughs at all those tragic games, tragic reality...” / “En yüce dağlara tırmanan, güler bütün acıklı oyunlara, acıklı gerçeklere...”
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— for cello and voice
1.
“I looked at the legendary Mount Ağrı, with all my might...” / “Efsanevi dağ Ağrı’ya, var gücümle baktım...”
Alexander Pushkin
2.
“Atatürk, he resembles a big mountain, as you get closer becomes bigger and bigger in your eyes...” / “Atatürk bir dağa benzer, yaklaştıkça gözünüzde büyür...”
Turgut Özakman
3.
“One who climbs the highest mountains laughs at all those tragic games, tragic reality...” / “En yüce dağlara tırmanan, güler bütün acıklı oyunlara, acıklı gerçeklere...”
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— for cello 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
Click this text for more info.
— for two or more instruments / voices
If the Water Has Memory
©2009*
Choreographed version with:
Mariana Lucia Marquez
... referring to the earthly phenomena of water remembering substances that were previously dissolved in it, this piece imagines that the rivers remember the songs that were sung for them!
Folk songs from different regions of the world that are about rivers (and often sung along the riversides), were compiled, performed, recorded, and composed.
— for electronics: recorded voices.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics in 2009.
In To Selves. contained potential
. lift-induced drag
. potential to kinetic
Click this text for more info.
— for two or more instruments / voices
If the Water Has Memory
©2009*
Choreographed version with:
Mariana Lucia Marquez
Folk songs from different regions of the world that are about rivers (and often sung along the riversides), were compiled, performed, recorded, and composed.
— for electronics: recorded voices.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics in 2009.
©2014
In collaboration with
chroeographer Melanie Aceto
— for sound and movement:
dancing & vocalizing choreographer
︎Selected recordings of:
Vocal Performance | Improvisation | Movement | Curation
Senso di Voce
improvisation set
at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
Senso di Voce
presents:
SONIC IMPRESSIONS
©2021
In collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery,
Senso di Voce presents a virtual concert inspired by the exhibition: “Renaissance Impressions: Sixteenth-Century Master Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection”
... which explores the emergence and transformative impact of the print medium on the visual culture of Renaissance Europe.
Curated by Senso di Voce, the concert 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 Southern Turkey!
who we are:
Senso di Voce
excerpt from
Senso di Voce
presents:
As above, so below
(2018)
Senso di Voce released the full hour long video of this concert with spatialized sound and stunning visuals from the Silo City (that the performance took place in):
Please find the link on our website
...and consider supporting us with a small donation!
︎Senso di Voce website
excerpt from:
Interludes ©2019
for
Senso di Voce
︎
As Featured in
Larger Ensembles:
solo moment
within Tyshawn Sorey’s
Autoschediasms
...
with Phillip Greenlief
Improvisatory Ensemble
...
within Aliya Ultan’s
Become a House
Composer | Vocal performer