NKSalon/ Mehmet Can Özer & Andre Bartetzki
NK/Salon is an electroacoustic immersive listening series that is organized by NK in Collaboration with Salon Bruit at K77 Kino a small cinema house located in Prenzlauerberg. The series program is guided by the consideration of the cinema room as the container of reception for the music.
This event takes place at Kastanienallee 77, Berlin-PrenzlauerBerg
http://salonbruit.org/
Mehmet Can Özer
… Der knapp 30-jährige Özer ist dabei strukturell, konzeptionell und was das sinnliche Erlebnis betrifft weiter als manche Akustiktüftler in unseren Breiten. Jörn Florian Fuchs (Wiener Zeitung)
Mehmet Can Özer was born in 1981. His professional career started when he was accepted to Bilkent University FMPA composition division with full scholarship. He’s studied composition and orchestral conducting with Bujor Hoinic. After graduating, he was accepted to Conservatoire de Géneve for both electroacoustic and intrumental composition divisions. There he’s worked with Michél Jarrell and Rainer Boesh. Later he’s studied in Zurich HMT with Gerald Bennett. In 2005 he moved to Turkey and took a job in Baskent University as a Lecturer.
He took part in the Halici-Midi Composition Competition (1998), Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (2003 and 2007), received the Goethe Institute Artist Award (2006) and SWR Experimental Studio Grant (2008).
He has performed in several international festivals such as Bourges (France), AudioArt (Poland), Remusica (Kosovo), Busan Biennale (Korea), Pyramidale (Germany), Acousmania (Romania), SMC (Greece), Generator (Switzerland), Electro-Globe (Belgium), Create (USA), EMUfest (Italy), Ankara International Music Festival (Turkey), Granada Festival (Spain), Estoril Festival (Portugal), DE:Sonanz (Macedonia) and Apparat (Denmark).
Apart from being commissioned at home, he received commissions from I.M.E.B. (France), Musiques-Recherches (Belgium) and EMS (Sweeden) and has been invited from their studios to realize a piece. In 2005 he has started electroacoustic music concert series in Ankara and organized many concerts up to 2007. In 2008, he has commissioned by Goethe Institute for Ernest Lubitsch’s silent movie “The Oyster Princess” and gave improvised concerts through Turkey.
In 2009, first electroacoustic music CD in Turkey “Siyah Kalem’s Dance” has been released. In 2010, he has been commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna) for “The Morning Line” sound pavillon and by Visisonor Foundation(Amsterdam) for his “Siyah Kalem” project. Currently he is working on his software “Asure” and giving concerts with it. Mehmet Can Özer’s instrumental compositions also played in various places and he continues to write for both instruments and electronics. Currently he is a lecturer in Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory.
“Aşure” (pronounced as Ishuré) is a real time improvisational environment developed by Mehmet Can Özer. The project has different aspects in order to explore, to make research and all of them are connected with various fields such as composition, improvisation, software and hardware development, ethnomusicology, sociology, interaction between human and computer and the most important cultural exchange. Nowadays, we are faced with difficulties as far as international relations are concerned. Lack of communication and understanding we can only fight with “the other”. Consequently we are keep discriminating people. I am considering Western and Eastern Cultures as one and inseparable. During my research I learnt that, even geographically distant cultures may share the same things as well as variations of the original. Those things are called as “cultural entity”. This interdisciplinary project is going to be focused on mainly music and all the research and development process will follow the guidance of musical aims.
http://www.mehmetcanozer.com/Mehmet_Can_Ozer/Giris.html
Andre Bartetzki, geboren 1962 in Berlin, studierte Tonmeister an der Hochschule für Musik ““Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Noch während des Studiums begann er dort mit der Einrichtung eines Studios für elektroakustische Musik (STEAM), das er bis 2002 leitete. 1999-2004 lehrte er am elektronischen Studio (SeaM) der Weimarer Musikhochschule und an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Seit 2009 leitet er gemeinsam mit Volker Straebel das Elektronische Studio der TU Berlin am Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation. Er gab darüber hinaus Kurse zur Klangsynthese und algorithmischer Komposition u.a. an der TU-Berlin, HU-Berlin, der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock, der Akademie der Künste Berlin, am Podewil Berlin, sowie an Musikhochschulen, Universitäten und anderen Einrichtungen in Bukarest, Prag, Lissabon, Seoul, Stockholm, Salzburg u.a.
Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit arbeitet er als Programmierer, Sounddesigner und Toningenieur mit Klangkünstlern sowie Ensembles, Solisten, Komponisten und Veranstaltern im Bereich der Neuen Musik zusammen, u.a. Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble work in progress, United Berlin, Kairos Quartett, Ensembel Megaphon, William Forman, Helmut Zapf, Hanna Hartmann, Yueyang Wang, Matthias Jann, Johannes Wallmann, Miguel Azguime, Lenka Župková, Günter Heinz, Akademie der Künste, Kryptonale Berlin, Musikakademie Rheinsberg, Randspiele Zepernick, Inventionen Berlin.
Seine Software CMask für algorithmische Komposition wird weltweit verwendet und diente anderen Programmierern als Modell für eigene Entwicklungen.
Seine eigenen musikalischen und künstlerischen Projekte umfassen Klang- und Videoinstallationen, u.a. für das museum der dinge Berlin, für die singuhr hœrgalerie Berlin und wiederholt für das Randspiele-Festival in Zepernick, Tonbandmusik sowie live-elektronische Musik. Seine Musik wurde auf internationalen Festivals für Neue und Computermusik gespielt, wie z.B. Kryptonale Berlin, LAC 2007 Berlin, Pyramidale 2008 Berlin, Hörkunstfestival Erlangen 2006 und 2009, ICMC2002 Göteborg, ICMC2005 Barcelona, ICMC2007 Kopenhagen, ICMC 2008 Belfast, BIMESP 2002 São Paulo, SICMF 2003, 2004, 2005 und 2009 Seoul, Nuits d’hiver 2005 Marseille, ping! 2007 und 2008 Mallorca, ACMC 2005 Brisbane, deepwireless 2008 Toronto, emufest 2009 Rom, ElectroVisiones 2009 Mexiko. Er wurde Finalist bei Wettbewerben für elektroakustische Musik in Bourges und São Paulo. 2004 erhielt er ein Kompositionsstipendium vom ZKM Karlsruhe, 2007 ein Aufenthaltsstipendium am Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, 2009 ein Aufenthaltsstipendium für Klangkunst in der Denkmalschmiede Höfgen.
Zwischen 1997 und 2004 war er Mitglied im Vorstand der Deutschen Gesellschaft für elektroakustische Musik (DEGEM) und dort u.a. für die Herausgabe der DEGEM-Mitteilungen verantwortlich.