Esin Gunduz
Composer |
Vocal performer
selected works:
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award
Senso di Voce
in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
![]()
cover art: Juliane Schütz
Senso di Voce’s EP
m a r v e l i n g
![]()
cover art: Juliane Schütz
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.
︎
![]()
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
![]()
(Click on the image to hear an excerpt.)
multi-disciplinary: Medea ‘on -a thin- line’
(2022)
(read more︎)
Improvisations
-excerpt-
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
Sounding Spaces
©2021
with Senso di Voce ( This excerpt is best heard with 🎧 )
excerpt from:
Interludes ©2019
for Senso di Voce
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
learn about
Senso di Voce
who we are:
If the Water Has Memory
©2009*
Choreographed version with:
Mariana Lucia Marquez
*Composer’s very first use of electronics.
︎
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
selected works:
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award
Senso di Voce
in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
Senso di Voce’s
newest album:
through itself
released from
Sonic Transmissions Records
Sept 12, 2025.
(The cover art links to bandcamp)newest album:
through itself
released from
Sonic Transmissions Records
Sept 12, 2025.
‘...through itself...’* ©2023, a work by Esin Gunduz, 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’)
(...︎more 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’)
(...︎more on bandcamp... )
Senso di Voce’s EP
m a r v e l i n g
cover art: Juliane Schütz 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.
︎
En-he-du-an-na-me-en
©2020
(︎read more)
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.
**Middleton’s ‘Voice(less)’ Commissioning Project.
©2020
(︎read more)
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.
**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
︎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 🎧 )
... based on the medieval alchemical processes; on the ways that the relationship between one’s work and her soul transforms through them.
Click this text for more info.
—for two mouth-harmonicas.
Tremolo harmonicas were used in this recording. Professional harmonica players are not required.
Click this text for more info.
—for two mouth-harmonicas.
Tremolo harmonicas were used in this recording. Professional harmonica players are not required.
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.
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.
learn about
Senso di Voce
who we are:
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.
— 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.
︎
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
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award,
Senso di Voce
in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
![]()
cover art: Juliane Schütz
i. …an-zà-śè maḫ-àm……as lofty as the horizon…
as featured in:
Works for Loudspeakers #28
Sonorous Circle
(New Zealand)
in three movements:
ii. …ku-ku za-lag ge-eş ĝar… /
…to turn darkness into light…
iii. …ur-re ca-mu-u-hul-le… /
…to make you joyous…
(read more︎
& the SBL 2021
conference presentation)
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 more ︎)
... 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:
Medea Fine-Tuning (2023)
(read more ︎)
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 for choreography, video, theatre play.
Improvisations
-excerpt-
by Senso di Voce
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
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.
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.
︎Iron Softens in Union
from: States of Iron
©2012-13
![]()
... imagining the intense acoustical interference between instruments as an amalgam of metal and spirit.
Click this text / image for more info and the recording.
— for bass flute, bass clarinet, and voice
excerpt from:
Interludes ©2019
for Senso di Voce
Proximity of Rituals / Ritüellerin Yakınlığı
©2015
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 (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
︎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
learn about
Senso di Voce
who we are:
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.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
— for electronics: recorded voices.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics.
Composer |
Vocal performer
selected works:
‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz
Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Award,
Senso di Voce
in close collaboration with:
Megan Kyle, oboe
Senso di Voce’s
newest album:
through itself
released from
Sonic Transmissions Records
Sept 12, 2025.
(The cover art links to bandcamp)newest album:
through itself
released from
Sonic Transmissions Records
Sept 12, 2025.
‘...through itself...’* ©2023, a work by Esin Gunduz, 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’)
(...︎more 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’)
(...︎more on bandcamp... )
cover art: Juliane Schütz
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.
︎
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.
**Middleton’s ‘Voice(less)’ Commissioning Project.
![]()
Improvisations
at ‘Fire Museum Presents’
(Philadephia, Usa):
Tierceron
an album of improvisations
by Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey
released July 7, 2023
Other Minds Records, San Francisco
︎Listen to it on Bandcamp
Lights on Inanna
©2016-17
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.
︎
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.
**Middleton’s ‘Voice(less)’ Commissioning Project.
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.
(read more︎)
i. …an-zà-śè maḫ-àm……as lofty as the horizon…
as featured in:
Works for Loudspeakers #28
Sonorous Circle
(New Zealand)
in three movements:
ii. …ku-ku za-lag ge-eş ĝar… /
…to turn darkness into light…
iii. …ur-re ca-mu-u-hul-le… /
…to make you joyous…
(read more︎
& the SBL 2021
conference presentation)
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 more ︎)
... 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:
Medea Fine-Tuning (2023)
(read more ︎)
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 for choreography, video, theatre play.
Improvisations
-excerpt-
by Senso di Voce
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021
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.
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.
︎Iron Softens in Union
from: States of Iron
©2012-13
... imagining the intense acoustical interference between instruments as an amalgam of metal and spirit. Click this text / image for more info and the recording.
— for bass flute, bass clarinet, and voice
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.
— 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
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 (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
︎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
learn about
Senso di Voce
who we are:
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.
— originally an electroacoustic piece for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion, and electronics.
— for electronics: recorded voices.
*Composer’s very first use of electronics.
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
Composer | Vocal performer