Esin Gunduz
Composer |
Vocal performer
preview of selected works:
A Single of
Low-fi field recordings
layered together with improvisations
license
© all rights reserved
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award,
Senso di Voce
...in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
*featured in their album:
︎
Senso di Voce’s EP
m a r v e l i n g
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m a r v e l i n g
is a set of live improvisations
that forecast the duo’s upcoming album: through itself.
These two tracks 'marvel at' the sound universe invoked by ‘...through itself…’* ©2023 by Esin Gunduz.
cover art: Juliane Schütz.
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Improvisations
by Senso di Voce
at the ‘Fire Museum Presents’
(Philadephia, Usa)
︎
Tierceron
an album of improvisations
by Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey
voice, harmonium: Esin Gunduz
oboe, English horn: Megan Kyle
violin: Henry Birdsey
released July 7, 2023
Other Minds Records,
San Francisco
︎Listen to it on Bandcamp
Reverb: Silo City “Marine A” model
by Henry Birdsey
Recording, editing, mix:
Henry Birdsey
Recorded at:
Avaloch Farm Music Institute, July 2019
︎
Medea Travelling
©2022, ©2023
in collaboration with:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, Yasemin Nur
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(Click on the image to hear an excerpt.)
multi-disciplinary: Medea ‘on -a thin- line’
(2022)
(read more︎)
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Improvisations
-excerpt-
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
︎
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
*Composer’s very first use of electronics.
excerpt from
Senso di Voce:
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.
︎Senso di Voce website
︎
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
Composer |
Vocal performer
preview of selected works:
field recordings, olympos beycik
©2025 Esin Gunduz
©2025 Esin Gunduz
A Single of
Low-fi field recordings
layered together with improvisations
[Albums on menu!]
~
~
There's a forced humility in sharing one's phone-recorded field recordings...and here I embrace it.
Did you know that the etymology of the word 'humility' derives from 'humus', the word for 'earth'?
Here's a wish that we, humans, stay close to the soil
...it feels good, above all!
-You may find my ALBUMS under the menu.
credits:
self-released
Dec. 14, 2025
Did you know that the etymology of the word 'humility' derives from 'humus', the word for 'earth'?
Here's a wish that we, humans, stay close to the soil
...it feels good, above all!
-You may find my ALBUMS under the menu.
credits:
self-released
Dec. 14, 2025
phone-recordings, mix, mastering (field-recording),
voice, harmonium, moringa beans (improvisation),
& production
by Esin Gunduz ©2025
voice, harmonium, moringa beans (improvisation),
& production
by Esin Gunduz ©2025
BMI Work #76906951
IPI #551716064
cover art (pictures Esin Gunduz on the left)
by Carl Chinn
IPI #551716064
cover art (pictures Esin Gunduz on the left)
by Carl Chinn
license
© all rights reserved
︎
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award,
Senso di Voce
...in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
*featured in their album:
(The cover art links to bandcamp)![]()
cover art: Juliane Schütz
‘...through itself...’* ©2023 draws inspiration from the mystical and philosophical writings of revolutionary Islamic thinker İbn 'Arabî (1165-1240). This 20-minute chamber work is an exploration of profound philosophical concepts of his, through sound.
Each of the four movements explores a different concept, their trajectory mirroring that of Sema, a Sufi ritual.
I. Selam:
yearning to become one with (wajd)
II. Everything is Alive:
the life-force inside all existent things (‘even inside a rock’)
III. Perplexity:
the state of bewilderment / non-dual awareness (hayrah)
IV. Oneness:
the state of union / higher state of consciousness (‘immediate tasting’)
︎...read more...
︎...listen on bandcamp...
Each of the four movements explores a different concept, their trajectory mirroring that of Sema, a Sufi ritual.
I. Selam:
yearning to become one with (wajd)
II. Everything is Alive:
the life-force inside all existent things (‘even inside a rock’)
III. Perplexity:
the state of bewilderment / non-dual awareness (hayrah)
IV. Oneness:
the state of union / higher state of consciousness (‘immediate tasting’)
︎...read more...
︎...listen on bandcamp...
︎
Senso di Voce’s EP
m a r v e l i n g
m a r v e l i n g
is a set of live improvisations
that forecast the duo’s upcoming album: through itself.
These two tracks 'marvel at' the sound universe invoked by ‘...through itself…’* ©2023 by Esin Gunduz.
cover art: Juliane Schütz.
︎
En-he-du-an-na-me-en
©2020
in close collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton*, mezzosoprano
10 performances at festival / concert series across UK, Iceland, and Italy.
...Click to read more!
... 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!
10 performances at festival / concert series across UK, Iceland, and Italy. ...Click to read more!
**Middleton’s ‘Voice(less)’ Commissioning Project.
©2020
in close collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton*, mezzosoprano
10 performances at festival / concert series across UK, Iceland, and Italy.
...Click to read more!
... 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!
10 performances at festival / concert series across UK, Iceland, and Italy. ...Click to read more!
**Middleton’s ‘Voice(less)’ Commissioning Project.
Improvisations
by Senso di Voce
at the ‘Fire Museum Presents’
(Philadephia, Usa)
︎
Tierceron
an album of improvisations
by Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey
voice, harmonium: Esin Gunduz
oboe, English horn: Megan Kyle
violin: Henry Birdsey
released July 7, 2023
Other Minds Records,
San Francisco
︎Listen to it on Bandcamp
Reverb: Silo City “Marine A” model
by Henry Birdsey
Recording, editing, mix:
Henry Birdsey
Recorded at:
Avaloch Farm Music Institute, July 2019
OM-1037-2 © all rights reserved
︎
︎Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
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︎Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
— for an ensemble of five players (each doubling):
oboe | English horn, trombone | bass trombone, violin | viola, cello | electric*
(*optional) cello, percussion: vibraphone | marimba, cymbals | crash, tom toms | Chinese drum, and electronics.
oboe | English horn, trombone | bass trombone, violin | viola, cello | electric*
(*optional) cello, percussion: vibraphone | marimba, cymbals | crash, tom toms | Chinese drum, and electronics.
︎
Medea Travelling
©2022, ©2023
in collaboration with:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, Yasemin Nur
(Click on the image to hear an excerpt.)
multi-disciplinary: Medea ‘on -a thin- line’
(2022)
(read more︎)
... 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!
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.
— for voice & electronics (sound / sound design)
︎
Improvisations
-excerpt-
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
︎
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
...embodying musical resonances across time, geography, and genre.
—six-channel sound installation
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.
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.
—instrumentation of the performances on the recording: voice, oboe, English Horn, and tremolo harmonium.
—six-channel sound installation:
Sound exciters, amplifiers, foam board, wire.
—six-channel sound installation:
Sound exciters, amplifiers, foam board, wire.
Based on the medieval alchemical processes, ‘coniunctio’ is about the transmutations that might happen through one’s relationship between their soul and their life’s work.
Click this text for more info.
—for two mouth-harmonicas.
As available, tremolo harmonicas are preferred. The piece does not require professional harmonica players!
Click this text for more info.
—for two mouth-harmonicas.
As available, tremolo harmonicas are preferred. The piece does not require professional harmonica players!
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 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.
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excerpt from:
Interludes ©2019
for Senso di Voce
︎
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
excerpt from:
Interludes ©2019
for 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.
... 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.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
— for electronics: recorded voices.
Folk songs from different regions of the world that are about rivers (and often sung along the riversides), were compiled, performed, recorded, and composed.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
— for electronics: recorded voices.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics.
preview of other performance:
excerpt from
Senso di Voce:
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.
︎Senso di Voce website
︎
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
︎Free Vocal Improvisation (...more recordings)
︎Vocal Performances - prior to 2018
Copyright © 2020 Esin Gunduz.
Composer | Vocal performer
Esin Gunduz
Composer |
Vocal performer
preview of
selected works:
field recordings, olympos beycik
©2025 Esin Gunduz
A Single of
Low-fi field recordings
layered together with improvisations
[Albums on menu!]
~
There's a forced humility in sharing one's phone-recorded field recordings...
and here I embrace it.
Did you know that the etymology of the word 'humility' derives from 'humus', the word for 'earth'?
Here's a wish that we, humans, stay close to the soil
...it feels good, above all!
-You may find my ALBUMS under the menu.
credits:
self-released
Dec. 14, 2025
and here I embrace it.
Did you know that the etymology of the word 'humility' derives from 'humus', the word for 'earth'?
Here's a wish that we, humans, stay close to the soil
...it feels good, above all!
-You may find my ALBUMS under the menu.
credits:
self-released
Dec. 14, 2025
phone-recordings, mix, mastering (field-recording),
voice, harmonium, moringa beans (improvisation),
& production
Esin Gunduz ©2025
voice, harmonium, moringa beans (improvisation),
& production
Esin Gunduz ©2025
BMI Work #76906951
IPI #551716064
cover art (pictures Esin Gunduz on the left)
by Carl Chinn
license
© all rights reserved.
IPI #551716064
cover art (pictures Esin Gunduz on the left)
by Carl Chinn
license
© all rights reserved.
︎
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award,
Senso di Voce
...in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
*featured in their album:
︎
En-he-du-an-na-me-en
©2020
(read more︎)
in close collaboration with:
Rosie Middleton*
mezzosoprano
... 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!
*10 performances at festival / concert series across UK, Iceland, and Italy. ︎Read more
**Middleton’s ‘Voice(less)’ Commissioning Project.
— for voice & electronics
Improvisations
at ‘Fire Museum Presents’
(Philadephia, Usa):
Tierceron
an album of improvisations
by Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey
voice, harmonium: Esin Gunduz
oboe, English horn: Megan Kyle
violin: Henry Birdsey
released July 7, 2023
Other Minds Records, San Francisco
︎Listen to it on Bandcamp
Reverb: Silo City “Marine A” model
by Henry Birdsey
Recording, editing, mix: Henry Birdsey
Recorded at:
Avaloch Farm Music Institute, July 2019
OM-1037-2 © all rights reserved
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.
As Featured in
Larger Ensembles:
solo moment
within Tyshawn Sorey’s
Autoschediasms
...
with Phillip Greenlief
Improvisatory Ensemble
...
within Aliya Ultan’s
Become a House
︎Free Vocal Improvisation (...more recordings)
︎Vocal Performances - prior to 2018
Copyright © 2020 Esin Gunduz
Composer | Vocal performer