Works — Esin Gunduz 2026

Esin
Gunduz

Composer

+Vocal performer
Improviser

photo credit Sergio Nieto

Sound starts in the body
for composer,
vocal performer,
and improviser

Esin Gunduz
(she, her) - PhD

She is interested in:
‘becoming sound’
manifesting a state of
thorough-embodiment
in her original works
and live performances.

Sense of Energy
©2018 Esin Gunduz
featuring vocalist Roopa Mahadevan on the left.

Originally from Istanbul, Turkiye, Esin Gunduz (PhD) explores life’s energies as vibrations, timbre as visceral sensory experience, building landscapes from recorded-voices to surround acoustical instrumental textures at times, creating breathtaking acoustic vistas that have an unveiling quality.

Her works span mediums and diverse contexts:

acoustic / electroacoustic,
chamber music / improvisation,
installation / sound design for theatre,
music for dance / moving image,
and compositions around field-recordings.

They shine a light on the multiplicity and unity in nature, observe and imitate states of consciousness,
and capture spiritual overtones of our lives and life itself.

photo credit Carl Chinn

Dr. Gunduz had her works programmed by Music in the Round, Nonclassical, Iklectik Artlab, Woolwich Works, and Birmingham Opera Company’s Opera Lab in London (and across England), as part of Dark Music Days / Myrkir Músíkdagar at Harpa Concert Hall of Reykjavík (Iceland), as part of Kultur Sommer Wien in Vienna (Austria), at KM28 in Berlin (Germany), at Fruit Market Gallery in Edinburgh (Scotland), at Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome (Italy), at Kulturakademie Tarabya Summer Festival in Istanbul (Turkiye), at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in Quebec and Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in Alberta (Canada), YongSiewToh Conservatory of Music (Singapore), for Fire Museum Presents in Philadelphia (United States), and others.

Her work commissioned by and in close-collaboration with London-based mezzosoprano Rosie Middleton:

En-he-du-an-na-me-en (2020),
got excellent festival reviews:
reviews & features.

Dr. Gunduz was one of the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning awardees as the composer and vocalist of her transformative duo (with Megan Kyle on oboe / English horn):
Senso di Voce.

Gunduz’s compositional work for the duo has been conceived in close collaboration with Kyle:

‘...through itself…’* (2023) is an exploration of İbn 'Arabî’s profound philosophical concepts, through sound.

*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This work is at the core of Senso di Voce’s album:
through itself
which has been released from Sonic Transmissions Records (Norway) - Sept 12 2025.

Being originally from Istanbul, Turkiye, with Turkish immigrant ancestors from the Balkans, and having lived in the United States for two decades, Gunduz currently resides in Austin, Texas. Locally, she performs often and is a board member of the international festival of free jazz, avant-garde, and improvisational music: Sonic Transmissions. She travels for her projects near and far.

Initially,
her latest large-scale work:
‘...through itself…’ (2023) has been premiered on a shared evening with a duo of Susan Alcorn and Simone Baron at the Fire Museum Presents (Philadelphia, PA).

Senso di Voce’s tour of this new work included the venues:
Wesleyan University’s World Music Hall (Middletown, CT), Red Room (Baltimore, MD), and The Institute Library (New Haven, CT).

Its latest performance was also their ‘through itself’ album release concert programmed for Sonic Transmissions Festival and took place at dadaLab, Austin, TX. They were featured alongside Signe Emmeluth (Norway & Denmark) and a quartet of: Lisa Cameron, Joshua Thompson, Henna Chou (Atx), and Karen Ng (Canada).

Previously, Senso di Voce got their debut album of improvisations with Henry Birdsey (of Tongue Depressor): Tierceron
released from the Other Minds (OM) Records
of San Francisco (Jul 2023).

Gunduz’s prominent projects include electroacoustic works based on Sumerian tablets and a piece that turns an alchemical process into sound for the NyCity-based duo: Ultrafizz.

Her most-frequently performed work is for voice and electronics and was created in close collaboration with mezzosoprano Rosie Middleton and was commissioned for her acclaimed Voice(less) Commissioning Series:

En-he-du-an-na-me-en (2020)
is based on the text:

‘Exaltation of Inanna’
by Enheduanna

(the world’s first author known-by-name, a Sumerian high-priestess, ca. 2300 BC).

Rosie Middleton has been touring Europe with her Voice(less) program and has performed En-he-du-an-na-me-en at 10 different festival / series so far:

Iceland Dark Music Days (Myrkir Músíkdagar) programmed it before the pandemic, yet it’s later been premiered in a program by Nonclassical (UK) during Waterloo Festival in London (Jun 2021).

It had its second performance at the Iklectic Artlab, London (Jan 2022), its third performance as part of Music in the Round, Sheffield (Sept 2022) where Gunduz & Middleton were hosted in a Q&A by Tom McKinney of BBC Radio 3 —all venues in England, UK.

As a scholar at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, Rosie Middleton gave the work its fourth performance inside the late prolific composer Giacinto Scelsi’s living room in Rome, Italy (Oct 2022).

The fifth performance of the work took place as part of Dark Music Days / Myrkir músíkdagar at the Harpa Concert Hall of Reykjavík, Iceland (Jan 2023) where it got the review:

“A mesmerizing performance of a stunningly powerful work.”

by 5:4 (‘Five over Four’)
Dr. Simon Cummings.

Later, the sixth, seventh, and eighth performances of it were staged for Birmingham Opera Company: Opera Lab. Open to public, these took place inside the New Street Station of Birmingham.

The ninth and tenth performances happened as part of Music in the Round, this time at Guildhall (Portsmouth) and Woolwich Works (London) where Gunduz & Middleton were hosted in a Q&A along with the violinist and composer Angharad Davies (Oct 2023) .

The eleventh performance of this work took place at Kongreßpark of Wien / Vienna in Austria as part the concert series: Kultur Sommer Wien.

[Listen to an excerpts video of:
‘En-he-du-an-na-me-en’ on this page]

- The electronics for this piece were recorded at
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity,
Canada.

-Rosie Middleton’s commissioning series:
Voice(less)
was funded by:
Arts Council England
Help Musicians Fusion Fund and Transmission Fund
The Marchus Trust
The Finzi Trust

Gunduz’s first work around Sumerian culture,
Lights on Inanna (2016-2017)
had its stage premiere along with the premiere of Alvin Lucier’s latest work: Monteverdi Shapero (2019)
at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity (Canada).

The first movement of
Lights on Inanna:

‘…an-zà-śè maḫ-àm…’ /
‘…as lofty as the horizon…’

has been released by Sonorous Circle
as part of: Works for Loudspeakers #28
(Oct 2024, New Zealand).

A multi-disciplinary collaborative project of Dr. Gunduz’s is with Simon Wachsmuth, Emre Koyuncuoğlu, and Yasemin Nur:

‘Medea Traveling’ *

has been staged / showcased in its several versions:
as a multidisciplinary event of performances, video art & installation, experimental sound installation, performance, and interactive theater (which had Gunduz also as an improviser), and later as a theatre play.

*This project is being supported by Kulturakademie Tarabya / Tarabya Cultural Academy and Allianz Kulturstiftung.

Her long-term multi-disciplinary collaborative project with Roosmarijn Pallandt, where Gunduz composes around field recordings / images / moving images by artist Pallandt, is in-progress.

Gunduz’s works for museum/art-spaces with Senso di Voce are multi-faceted:

Their six-channel sound installation:
Sounding Spaces (2021)
was commissioned by and showcased at Play/Ground Festival.
The second iteration of this sound installation:
Sounding Spaces: Passage (2022),
was exhibited at the Frontispace Gallery of University of Rochester.

An audio-visual output of Senso di Voce’s own curation: Sonic Impressions (2022)
was developed in close relation to the Renaissance Impressions exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery and was streamed in a webinar format of concert and talk by the institution.

This program includes Gunduz’s short work:
Bogalele which was inspired by the throat-playing tradition of the ‘Teke’ nomads in Turkiye and cantu a tenòre tradition of Sardinia — a tradition that is listed under the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity category of Unesco. Often inspired by traditional music, Dr. Gunduz had the chance of having private workshops with two separate ensembles of cantu a tenòre in 2023: Coro Gabriel (of Tempio Pausania) and Tenore Santa Maria Otzana (of Ottana) in Sardinia.

Dr. Gunduz has presented Lights on Inanna (2016-17), her initial work that was based on Sumerian tablets, under the Music in the Cult section of the Society of Biblical Literature’s (SBL) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX
(Nov. 2021).

A researcher of vocal performance, Esin Gunduz has offered workshops for the Indeterminacy Consulting Group & Festival (CA/USA), CS1 Curatorial Projects (USA), and Orchard of Pomegranates in Montréal (CA). Dr. Gunduz worked as an adjunct voice professor at Villa Maria College and holds a PhD in music composition from SUNY University at Buffalo.

*Gunduz has been on stage as a vocalist & improviser between 2000-2017. You can find a list of her performances as a composer-performer, please check this link.

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through itself
by Senso di Voce

Album released from
Sonic Transmissions Records
(Norway)

Chamber Music America:
Classical Commissioning Award 2021
‘...through itself...’ (©2023)

Cover artwork, Juliane Schütz

through itself

Sonic Transmissions Records, Norway
2025

produced by: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Original music
(acoustic)
& Improvisations
that ‘marvel at’ it

original music (acoustic)

‘...through itself...’
©2023 Esin Gunduz

CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA: Classical Commissioning Award, 2021

for Esin Gunduz, composer &
Senso di Voce, performer

Senso di Voce:

Esin Gunduz - voice,
tremolo harmonica,
bass harmonica, harmonium

Megan Kyle - oboe, English horn

At the core of this album is
‘...through itself...’* ©2023
a work by Esin Gunduz,
drawing inspiration from
the mystical and philosophical writings
of revolutionary mystic
İbn 'Arabî (1165-1240).

This 20-minute
multimovement chamber work
is an exploration of profound
philosophical concepts of his,
through sound!

Album reviews
this

page

through itself by Senso di Voce

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Shipping within the USA

Each of the four movements
of ‘...through itself...’

©2023 Esin Gunduz

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’

3. Perplexity:
the state of bewilderment /
non-dual awareness
‘hayrah’

4. Oneness:
the state of union /
higher state of consciousness
‘immediate tasting’

İbn 'Arabî valued
‘immediate experience’
above all:
(...)

Read more about
this collaboration

Medea Traveling

multimedia work

In collaboration
with the artists :
Emre Koyuncuoğlu &
Simon Wachsmuth &
Yasemin Nur

*with support from
Kulturakademie Tarabya
Allianz Kulturstiftung,
Goethe-Institut

Click on the image
to hear an excerpt

Medea Traveling

©2022, ©2023
Esin Gunduz
in collaboration with:
Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Simon Wachsmuth, Yasemin Nur

original music
(electronic & electroacoustic)

— electronics & voice
multimedia work:

music for moving image,
music for choreography,
music & sound-design
for theatre,
with live improvisation

Click on the image
to hear an excerpt

multi-disciplinary:

Medea ‘on -a thin- line’
(2022)

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.

Click on the image
to hear an excerpt

theatre play:
Medea Fine-Tuning
(2023)

As part of a
multidisciplinary project
inspired by the Greek mythology,
Medea, Fine-Tuning
gives a modern spin
to the wild story of
Medea
by setting the
current political trajectory
as the background.

Click on the image
to hear an excerpt

coniunctio

digitally premiered
at National Sawdust, Nyc

recorded by Ultrafizz duo
during the lockdown
inside a Nyc apartment.

coniunctio
©2019-20 Esin Gunduz

original music
(acoustic)

written for Ultrafizz
(voice+ piano+ duo)
of Lucy Dhegrae
Nathaniel La Nasa

This work was workshopped during the duo and the composer’s residency at
the Yellow Barn International Center for Chamber Music, Vermont (USA).

— for two mouth-harmonicas*

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.

*The piece does not require
professional harmonica players.
Tremolo harmonicas are preferred
as available.

Sense of Energy

Embodiment of
energy
as sound

workshopped
by ensembles
around the world!

workshopped and premiered with
the vocalist Roopa Mahadevan
at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Sense of Energy
©2018 Esin Gunduz

original music
- graphic score for embodiment / improvisation

— for two (or more)
instruments
or voices

The sense and
the bodily experience
of types of
physical energies
imagined as sound
and
translated into
physical vibrations of
sound
through the practice of
embodiment.

read more about
this work
and the list of
its 9 itireations
/ performances
& workshops!

SENSE of ENERGY
Workshops !

( ©Become the Sound )

From the workshop:
‘Sense of Energy:
Sound in Body / Embodiment’
for Indeterminacy Festival
in Montréal, Canada

Sense of Energy
proposes three
different types of
energy / phenomena
to work with:

1. contained potential

2. lift-induced drag

3- potential to kinetic

...
while the workshoppers
are encouraged to
come up with
other
‘types of energy’
to turn into sound.

read more about
this work
list of its itireations
& workshops !
or organize a workshop

Ritüellerin Yakınlığı /
Proximity of Rituals

written for
Tuba Özkan
Yuri Gandelsman

*this performance was
workshopped, premiered, and recorded
during an artist residency at the
Mersin State Conversatory,
Mersin, Turkiye.

Ritüellerin Yakınlığı / Proximity of Rituals
©2015 Esin Gunduz

dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Melis Özkan

original music
(electroacoustic)

written for two solo violists:
Dr. Tuba Özkan
Dr. Yuri Gandelsman

*the tape part features the voice of Tuba Özkan singing an original lullaby to be accompanied by her viola playing.

— for two violas
and electronics
(voice)

‘lullaby &
mourning song,

both
easing us
into
sleep’

Esin Gunduz

‘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

States of Iron /
Demirin Halleri

workshopped &
performed with
Ensemble Linea (France)

States of Iron/
Demirin Halleri

original music
(acoustic)

— for voice, bass flute bass clarinet

Imagining
the acoustical interference
between
the instruments:
(voice, bass flute, bass clarinet)
as an amalgam of:
metal and spirit.

In three movements,
each reflecting
an Anatolian proverb:

1.
Working iron shines bright. /
İşleyen demir ışıldar.
2.
Strike while the iron is hot. /
Demir tavında dövülür.
3.
Iron softens in union. /
Birlikte demir yumuşar.

‘Nothing is harder than iron,
yet it knows that water is its origin.
But all that has water for a basis,
even iron,
has no more reality than a dream.
Water is nothing stable.”

Farid Ud-din Attar,
The Conference of the Birds
(MANTIQ UT-TAIR)
– A Philosophical religious poem in prose.
Translated by C.S. Nott,
Shambala Publication Inc., 1971.

Texts of Wisdom

workshopped &
performed with
Factory Seconds Brass Trio (Cleveland)

Texts of Wisdom

©2011 (acoustical)*
©2014 (electroacoustic)
Esin Gunduz

*original acoustic version was a duo of trumpet and trombone and was workshopped with Meridian Arts Brass Ensemble.

Factory Seconds Trio:

Jack Sutte, Bb trumpet
Jessie McCormick, French Horn
Rick Stout, trombone

Recorded April 2014, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Cleveland.

for brass trio
( Bb trumpet, French horn, trombone) and electronics

Imagining
the breath within
the old texts of wisdom
that originate from
Anatolia
(the Mother-land)
and beyond.

1.

‘Dinlemeden anladık? /
Before listening, we understood?

Anlamadan eyledik, /
Before understanding, we acted upon it,

Gerçek erin bu yolda, /
The real man’s assets in this road,

Yokluktur sermayesi. /
Is nothing."

by Yunus Emre
13th century

2.
‘Rüzgar eken fırtına biçer. /
One who plants wind, harvests storm.’

Anatolian Proverb

3.
‘ Bu edgü ağış teg ağır agguka, /
Good is like climbing a steep road, it is hard to attain,

Yavuz neng iniş ol uçuz bulğuka, /
Bad is like going down an incline, it is attained easily.
Yusuf Has Hacib,
11th century
from “Kutadgu Bilig” /
“The Wisdom which
Brings Happiness”
Volume-2 Part-2
#903
(transliteration in Turkish
from Uyghur language)

In To Selves

& movement

©2014
In collaboration with
Melanie Aceto,
dancer & choreographer

If the Water Has Memory
©2009 Esin Gunduz

version with choreography by

Mariana Lucia Marquez

*Gunduz’s very first
electroacoustic work:
The electronics (tape part)
is made up of folk songs
from around the world.

If the Water Has Memory
©2009 Esin Gunduz

original music
(acousmatic)

*The electronics (tape part) is made up of folk songs from around the world.

*also, electroacoustic:

Written for mandolin (Avi Avital), percussion (Amie Watson) and electronics (voice).

— acousmatic version
originally for:
mandolin, percussion, electronics

Based on the earthly phenomena of:
water remembering
the substances that were
previously dissolved in it,
this piece imagines that
the rivers can 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 performed (sang), recorded,
and composed by the composer.

Senso di Voce

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Interludes
©2019 Esin Gunduz

– for oboe and voice

Sounding Spaces &
Sounding Spaces: PASSAGE

sound installation
in 6 channels

exhibited
in 2 different iterations

excerpt, total work is 15 minutes long

Sounding Spaces
©2021 Esin Gunduz, Senso di Voce

— conceptualized by
Senso di Voce
& created from earlier recordings by Senso di Voce and mixed for six channels by
Esin Gunduz.

Sounding Spaces:
PASSAGE
©2021 Esin Gunduz, Senso di Voce

— six-channel sound installation

An immersive,
six-channel
sound installation
that embodies
musical resonances
across time,
geography,
and genre.

While Senso di Voce’s
live performances
have worked in linear time,
in this six-channel
surround environment,
time is collapsed:
multiple fragments of
material are
heard simultaneously,
moving and changing to
draw out powerful connections
in the music.

— six-channel sound installation:
sound exciters, amplifiers,
foam board, wire

excerpt,
as installed at the
Frontispace Gallery at the
Art and Music Library of
University of Rochester.

SONIC
IMPRESSIONS

audio-visual
performance
&
virtual talk

in relation to the exhibition:
‘Renaissance Impressions (...)’
&
the emergence of the print medium
on the visual culture of
Renaissance Europe.

SONIC
IMPRESSIONS ©2021 Senso di Voce

audio-visual
performance
&
virtual talk

in relation to the exhibition:
‘Renaissance Impressions (...)’

— audio-visual performance

Senso di Voce,
in collaboration with the
Memorial Art Gallery of the
University of Rochester,
presented:

SONIC
IMPRESSIONS

a virtual concert
and talk
inspired by the exhibition
on view
( Nov. 2021–Feb. 2022)

"Renaissance Impressions:
Sixteenth-Century
Master Prints
from the
Kirk Edward Long Collection,”

which explored
the emergence and
transformative impact of
the print medium
on the visual culture of
Renaissance Europe.

virtual talk

As Above
So Below

for Silo City

©2018 Senso di Voce

excerpts in flow:

de Marseille’s “Sitot me soi’ - de Marseille
interlude (guided improvisations)
“Planino Pirin’ - Bulgarian folk song
with interludes

Improvisations
©2021 Senso di Voce

at
Hallwalls Contemporary
Art Center

Senso di Voce

for Silo City
©2017 Senso di Voce

IMPROVISATION
within
larger ensembles/works
by other composers

Tyshawn Sorey:
Autoschediasms
(2019)

premiere at the
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Phillip Greenlief
Improvisation Ensemble
(2019)

at the
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Aliya Ultan:
Become a House
(2019)

premiere at the
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Cléo Palacio-Quintin
improvisation ensemble

interpreting a visual ‘score’
Andrew Godsalve's
geophotomontage artwork:
Aggregators
(2019)

premiere at the
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

CONTACT Esin Gunduz

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to commission
/collaborate with

to learn
/ © become the sound

or -just- to leave feedback

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about Senso di Voce
through itself,

featured on:
Salt Peanuts
(Oslo, NORWAY)

Oct 19 2025

– Eyal Hareuveni

original music (acoustic)
surrounded by improvisations

review for:
Senso di Voce
‘through itself’
Sonic Transmissions, Norway
2025

“Quite a powerful
and immersive
listening experience.”

featured on:
5 against 4
(London
- UNITED KINGDOM)

Feb 3 2023

– Dr. Simon Cummings

original music
(electroacoustic)

review for:

Rosie Middleton’s performance of:

En-he-du-an-na-me-en
©2020 Esin Gunduz in close collaboration with Rosie Middleton, mezzosoprano

Dark Music Days /
Myrkir Músíkdagar (2023)

Harpa Hall
Reykjavík
- ICELAND

Comissioned by & as part of:

Voice(less)
Commissioning Series
by mezzosoprano Rosie Middleton.

“ a stunningly
powerful
work ”

10 Performances
at 10 Festival / Concert Series
across UK & the rest of Europe,
(including Dark Music Days, Iceland).

[Read more about:
this work & close collaboration
& tour in Europe]

featured on:
The Stash Dauber
(Fort Worth, TX
- UNITED STATES)

Apr 9 2025

– Ken Shimamoto

Live improvisations accommpanied by instantaneous choreography

review for:
VOCAMOV RITES
Vocamov Rite:
Live at They, Who Sound
2026

‘...vocalizing wordlessly
as they go,
creating passing harmonies
and counterpoint,
like ghosts
moving through
resonant space...’

‘...By the time
the three performers
begin to wind down
their conversation,
the viewer/listener
feels
centered
and satiated.’

featured on:
Djolo Cultures
(FRANCE)

Jul 12 2023

– Aodren

Improvisations featuring a reverb model

review for:
Senso di Voce & Henry Birdsey
Tierceron
2023

‘We are halfway between
experimental,
drone and
chamber music
(...)
a music that is at once
trembling,
harmonious,
aspirated and inspired,
hissing,
buzzing,
…
yes, yes,
all of that at once
we owe it to
Tierceron.’

featured on:
The Stash Dauber
(Fort Worth, TX, UNITED STATES)

Sept 13 2025

– Ken Shimamoto

original music (acoustic)

surrounded by tracks of improvisations

review for:
Senso di Voce
through itself
Sonic Transmissions, Norway
2025

‘through itself’
is in Stash Dauber’s selection for the
Downbeat Magazine Critics’ Poll, Spring 2026.

‘Their sound,
replete with
vibrations
animated by breath,
covers a full spectrum of
moods
and emotions.’

‘With through itself,
Senso di Voce
has created
an immersive sound experience
that rewards
repeated listening and
provides a fitting background
for needed
contemplation.’

– Rosie Middleton,
mezzosoprano

Commissioner & close collaborator

Voice(less) Commissioning Series

- London, England, UNITED KINGDOM

–Nathaniel LaNasa,
pianist +

Commissioner & collaborator

- New York City, UNITED STATES

coniunctio
(2019 EG)

for UltraFizz
duo of
voice+ piano+

– Dr. Andrea Young

Composer, performer
(Montréal, QC
CANADA)

‘a sound wizard!’

En-he-du-an-na-me-en
(2020 EG in close collaboration
with Rosie Middleton)

‘...Esin’s music
arises
miraculously
from the body’s own
forgotten rhythms.’

‘...Reading her score
for the first time,
I felt as if
I had been startled
by a secret and
unexpected mirror.’

“...sounds as if
it is dentelle or
some beautiful
tapestry.”

about Lights on Inanna (2016-17)

featured on:
All About Jazz
(UNITED STATES)

Jul 20 2016

– Budd Kopman

featured on:
Salt Peanuts
(NORWAY)

Jun 20 2016

– Eyal Hareuveni

featured on:
ARTVOICE
(UNITED STATES)

Jan 13 2013

– Jan Jezioro

review for:
ResAUnance
‘Migration’
FMR Records, UK
Apr 2016

‘Gunduz has
one of those
magical voices
which can be
completely pure one second,
only to throb with emotion
the next
when singing words or
vocalized syllables.’

‘the acrobatic-operatic
range of
Gunduz vocals’

‘...featuring the
vocal wizardry
of
Istanbul-born singer
Esin Gunduz.’

– Jeremy Nuncio
El Mantis
(Houston, TX
UNITED STATES)

Sept 12 2025

review for:
Senso di Voce
‘through itself’
Sonic Transmissions, Norway
2025

‘Senso di Voce
carries something
both primal
and contemporary
all at once.

‘There’s a mindfulness
in the material, and also
in the way Esin and Megan
sonically move together.

The silence feels
just as impactful
as the sound.

The voice really
does meld with oboe at times,
becoming a single timbre.’

UPCOMING

2026

Past events

Aug 7

concert series: Kultur Sommer Wien
Kongreßpark,
Wien / Vienna, Austria

mezzoroprano Rosie Middleton’s
program of commissioned works
for solo voice and electronics:

Voice(less)

Rosie Middleton. . . voice, violin, choreography with flags

performing
*Gunduz’s work in close collaboration with Rosie Middleton*
‘En-he-du-an-na-me-en’ (2020)
(I am Enheduanna)

along with:

code works: any chance of war?
by Mira Calix

Cover Squirrel
by Laura Bowler

*work*
by Mees Vervuurt

-The series is funded by:
Arts Council England
Help Musicians Fusion Fund and Transmission Fund
The Marchus Trust
The Finzi Trust

June 26

concert series: dadageek student exhibition
curated by: Kyle Evans
dadaLab, Austin TX

featuring the recorded versions of
Gunduz’s works:

coniunctio (2020)

Field Recordings: Olympos, Beycik

along with
media / digital art work
by dadageek participants

June 10

concert series: Songwriter’s Happy Hour
curated by Ethan Azarian
A Hole in the Wall, Austin TX, United States

duo improvisations:

VOCAMOV RITES
- minus: Esin Gunduz

Justin Rodriguez-Jones . . . voice, synthesizer, toy piano, walkie-talkie

Paty Lorena Solórzano . . . instantaneous choreography, voice, walkie-talkie

May 5

concert series: Pros and Cons Bar Presents
curated by Danny Kamins
Pros and Cons Bar, Houston TX, United States

duo improvisations as:

VOCAMOV RITES
- minus: Paty Lorena Solórzano

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard, walkie-talkie

Justin Rodriguez-Jones . . . voice, synthesizer, toy piano, walkie-talkie

featured alongside:

IUI
(Htx)

Jason Jackson, sax

John Alan Kennedy, drums

Ethan Adkison, bass

Gavin Kenyon, guitar

&

Smooth Operator
(Htx)

Danny Kamins, sax

Juan Garcia, bass

Apr 28

concert series: Joan of Bark
curated by Sarah Ruth Alexander
Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Dallas TX, United States

duo improvisations with:

Stefan Ariel Gonzalez … vibraphone, drums

featured alongside:

Devin Gray (NY)

Aga Zet (Htx)

&

BST (Denton, Dtx)

&

Nova Ensemble (Denton, Dtx)

Apr 21

radio show: Tiger D
programmed by Sarah Ruth Alexander
KUZU RADIO, 92.9 FM
Denton, Dallas TX, United States

featuring:
‘Vocamov Rite: Live at They, Who Sound’
by VOCAMOV RITES

released 2025
produced by Esin Gunduz

Apr 9

concert series: Mollusk Depot Presents
curated by Lisa Cameron
Stargazer, Austin TX, United States

ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT

Audio-Visual Album Out:
‘Vocamov Rite: Live, at They Who Sound’
produced by Esin Gunduz

trio improvisations as:

VOCAMOV RITES

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard, walkie-talkie

Justin Rodriguez-Jones . . . voice, synthesizer, toy piano, walkie-talkie

Paty Lorena Solórzano . . . instantaneous choreography, voice, walkie-talkie

featured alongside:

Ipek Eginli (GA)

&

Lisa Cameron (Atx)

Joshua Thompson (Atx)

Brent Farris (Atx)

2025

Dec 20

concert series: Nothing Is Sacred Presents
by Antumbra Intermedia Events & Installations
curated by Tara Battacharya
29th Street Ballroom, Austin TX

trio improvisations with:

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard

Justin Rodriguez-Jones … voice, toy piano, synthesizer

Venese Medovich Alcantar … instantaneous choreography

featured alongside:

Chuck Roth (NY)

&

Little Mazarn (Atx)

&

Sewa Choki (Atx)

&

Rush top fish (Atx)

Nov 7

Chess Club, Austin TX

solo improvisations along with field recordings from Olympos, Beycik in Southern Turkiye.

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, laptop

featured alongside:

Precious Gems (Atx)
&
v.f.s. (Atx)

Nov 2

radio show: Virtual Noise
programmed by Ken Z (McKenzie)
KOOP Radio, 91.7 FM
Austin TX, United States

featured as a
Live Guest!

...played tracks from these albums:

from:

through itself

Sonic Transmissions Records, Norway
2025
produced by: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

original music (acoustic)

from:
field recordings, olympos beycik

Single track
Bandcamp release
produced by Esin Gunduz ©2025

low-fi field recordings layered with improvisations

from:

as featured in compilation
Works for Loudspeakers #28 by SONOROUS CIRCLE (New Zealand)
©2024

original music (electroacoustic)

first movement of ‘Lights on Inanna’ (2016-17)

📻 track 4
Perplexity
(third movement of ‘...through itself...’)

📻 Field recordings:
Olympos, Beycik

📻 ‘…an-zà-śè
maḫ-àm… /
…as lofty
as the horizon… *

Oct 1

- had to cancel due to emergencies -

concert series: porous sonorous
curated by Ernesto Montiel
Rubber Gloves, Denton, Dallas TX

curated to perform
duo improvisations with:
Gregg Prickett ... electric guitar (Dtx)

was going to be featured alongside:

Unicorn and Flexibility (Belgium & France)

&

Kory Reeder (Dtx), Julia Coelho (Portugal)

&

Firelife Trio (Dtx)

Sept 25

radio show: SONIDO TUMBARRANCHO
programmed by Ernesto Montiel
KUZU RADIO, 92.9 FM
Denton, Dallas TX, United States

Sept 13

festival: Sonic Transmissions Festival
- day 3 -
curated by Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
dadaLab, Austin TX

ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT
!
through itself
by Senso di Voce
Sonic Transmissions Records
2025

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, laptop

Megan Kyle . . . oboe, English horn

*Chamber Music America
Classical Commissioning Award, 2021
Senso di Voce (ensemble) &
Esin Gunduz (composer)

featured alongside:

Signe Emmeluth
(Norway & Denmark)

&

Lisa Cameron (Atx)

Joshua Thompson (Atx)

Henna Chou (Atx)

Karen Ng (Canada)

Sept 9

concert series: ArcHouse Presents
curated by Danny Kamins
Houston TX, United States

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, laptop

Megan Kyle . . . oboe, English horn

featured alongside:

Rebecca Novak (Htx)

Danny Kamins (Htx)

Ryan Edwards (Htx)

Sept 8

concert series: MeMerMo
curated by Melissa Seely
Austin TX, United States

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, laptop

Megan Kyle . . . oboe, English horn

with Live Visuals by
Screen Tears

featured alongside:

Tim Wiens (Atx)

&

Uxelite (Atx)

Sept 6

concert series: New Mus New Classical Performance Series
curated by James Talambas
New Media Contemporary, Dallas TX, United States

featured alongside:

Lisa Cameron (Atx)

July 17

concert series: Music at the Wild Detectives
curated by Ernesto Montiel
The Wild Detectives Bookstore & Bar, Denton, Dallas TX

duo improvisations:

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard

Gregg Pricket . . . electric guitar (Dtx)

featured alongside:

El Mantis (Htx)

June 21

concert series: forming presents
curated by Andrew Weathers, Ryan Seward
Shutter and Strum, Colorado Springs, CO

performing text music
in a trio:

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica

Andrew Weathers . . . saxophone, electronics
(CO & TX & NC)

Ryan Seward . . . percussion, electronics
(CO & TX)

Program:

Robert Ashley ... she was a visitor
Pauline Oliveros ... horse sings from cloud
Ryan Seward ... rain fell

ALBUM
...COMING OUT...
SOON

Apr 28

concert series: MeMerMo
curated by Melissa Seely
Austin TX, United States

‘solo duo trio’
improvisations:

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard

Christina Carter . . . voice
(Atx & Htx)

Justin Rodriguez-Jones … voice, toy piano, synthesizer
(Atx & Htx)

featured alongside:

PILOT (Atx)

&

Black Magic Cyborg
(Atx)

Mar 17

concert series: They, Who Sound
produced by Nameless Sound
presented by Lawndale Art Center
curated by Dave Dove
Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX United States

First time
trio improvisations:

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard

Justin Rodriguez-Jones … voice, toy piano, synthesizer (Atx & Htx)

Paty Lorena Solórzano ... instantaneous choreography, voice, walkie-talkie (Htx)

Live Concert Recordings
ALBUM OUT!

All Profits Benefit:
Nameless Sound

featured alongside:

Elli Gradney (Htx)

&

Ryan Hollaway (Htx)

&

Sareen Patel (Htx)

Dec 13

concert series: mercy house presents
curated by Christina Carter
Austin TX, United States

duo improvisations:

Christina Carter . . . voice
(Atx & Htx)

Esin Gunduz . . . voice, harmonium, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, electric keyboard

featured alongside:

Caroline Davis . . . sax, electronics
(NY)

&

Justin Rodriguez-Jones . . . voice, toy piano, synthesizer
(Atx & Htx)

2024

Sept 12

concert series: Red Room Presents
curated by Shelly Purdy
Normals Books & Records, Baltimore MD, United States

Senso di Voce
New England Tour 2024

performing:
‘...through itself...’ (2023 EG)
and improvisations around this work

featured alongside:

‘Local Noise Intoners’
Max Gong

&

Martin Schmidt

&

Obie Feldi

Sept 11

concert series: Fire Museum Presents
curated by Steven Tobin
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, Philadelphia PA, Unites States

Senso di Voce
New England Tour 2024

PREMIERE
‘...through itself...’ (2023 EG)
and improvisations around this work

featured alongside:
Susan Alcorn
(MD & NY & TX )

Simone Baron
(MD & NY)

Sept 10

concert series: The Institute Library Presents
curated by Matt Wellins
New Haven CT, United States

Senso di Voce
New England Tour 2024

performing:
‘...through itself...’ (2023 EG)
and improvisations around this work

Live Concert Recording
ALBUM OUT
through itself
Sonic Transmissions Records
2025

featured alongside:

Matt Wellins

&

Parsa Ferdowsi

KUZU FM
Dallas, TX

9/25/2025
on Sonido Tumbarrancho
by Ernesto Montiel
_______________

9/1/2025
on Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions
by Stefan Gonzales

Become
the
Sound

Teaching / facilitating
embodied voice
and vocal creativity
for the past two decades.

... In her own words:

being a guide
in a journey to
© Become the Sound !

photo features vocalist Roopa Mahadevan on the left
during residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada

photo credit Sergio Nieto

Esin Gunduz
PhD & MA in Music composition
BA in Voice (jazz, improvisation) and composition

facilitating
proficiency and freedom
in diverse vocal performance practices
... for close to two decades!

Find out more

here!

CONTACT Esin Gunduz

to book
/share a concert event

to commission
/collaborate with

to learn
/ © become the sound

or to leave feedback!

esingunduz.com

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Last Updated 24.10.31

29th Street Ballroom, Austin TX

ALBUMS
/Recordings
&
Original
WORKS

REVIEWS
/Features
&
UPCOMING

through itself
by Senso di Voce

Album released from
Sonic Transmissions Records
(Norway)

Chamber Music America:
Classical Commissioning Award 2021
‘...through itself...’ (©2023)

Cover artwork, Juliane Schütz

Album reviews

read here!

Original music
(acoustic)
&
Improvisations
that ‘marvel at’ it

through itself by Senso di Voce

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Video recordings
of these performances
are available
with purchase!
:)

Album reviews

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