Esin Gunduz
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 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







︎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



︎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


— for sound and movement:

singing & moving vocalist and
dancing & vocalizing choreographer




︎Selected recordings of:
Vocal Performance | Improvisation | Curation




Senso di Voce
excerpt from improvisation set
at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021

...


Senso di Voce presents:
SONIC IMPRESSIONS
©2021



About
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







Mark
Esin Gunduz
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







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





︎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
©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


Senso di Voce
improvisation set
at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, 2021




Senso di Voce
presents:
SONIC IMPRESSIONS
©2021


learn about us
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













Copyright © 2020 Esin Gunduz
Composer | Vocal performer

Mark