Versatile musician Şevket Akıncı and Sonic Arts scholar Mehmet Korkmaz will perform at ARTER with animation artist İlhami Tunç Gençer.
Şevket Akıncı
Şevket Akıncı is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and improviser who studied composition at Berklee College of Music. After he released his album Uçurumda Açan in 1996, he turned his attention as a songwriter to musical genres ranging from traditional jazz, free improvisation, free jazz, and fusion to Turkish classical music. He has participated in various projects blending literature, dance, cinema, architecture, theatre, plastic arts, painting, and other disciplines with music. He was also commissioned by a festival in Duisburg to produce a composition to commemorate Beethoven’s 250th birthday. He frequently participates in free improvisation festivals around the world. To date, he has shared a stage with the likes of Ernst Reijseger, Bob Moses, Butch Morris, Tristan Honsinger, Michael Moore, Huun-Huur-Tu, Luc Ex, and Tomeka Reid. Akıncı, who also has published the book Öteki Jazz about non-mainstream jazz genres, has released more than 20 albums.
Mehmet Korkmaz
Mehmet Korkmaz was born in 1993 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Department of Sonic Arts at Istanbul Technical University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Sonic Arts and worked as a producer on projects like Pesüs’s Balkonda Deniz, Deli Bakkal’s Kime Kime Bu?, Şevket Akıncı’s Dünyada Saat Kaç? and Meskûn Mahal.
İlhami Tunç Gençer
Born in 1984 in Istanbul, İlhami Tunç Gençer studied graphic design at Haliç University. He has had his animations screened at nearly 200 festivals. He has won various national/international awards, served on film festival juries, held domestic and international retrospective screenings, and organized joint exhibitions with international surrealist groups. He held an exhibition with his own initiative Dalga Avangard İnisiyatifi and has completed his first feature-length animation film Love.