a’21: Sounds of Darağaç

►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç

Using sound to document a neighbourhood and collaboration of collectives will be main topics in this conversation.

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) ::

Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir’s subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds of Darağaç is an auditory memory project documenting the sounds that is produced by the dynamic and cosmopolitan lifestyle in a small auto industrial zone, surrounded by the neighborhood's daily hustle and bustle in it’s narrow streets. A conversation with LU Records and Apeiron Collective about how the idea of Sounds of Darağaç emerged and the production timeline of the project.

‘Sounds of Darağaç’ projesi, İzmir Alsancak bölgesinde bulunan Umurbey Mahallesi’nde son 6-7 senedir yaşayan ve/veya üreten sanatçıların oluşturduğu Darağaç Kolektifi’nin yakın eksenlerdeki uyduları arasında yer alan İstanbul/Amsterdam merkezli plak şirketi ‘Lu Records’ ve İzmirli altkültür müzik kolektifi ‘Apeiron’ ile yaptığı işbirliği sonucunda ortaya çıktı. ‘Sounds of Darağaç’, gün içerisinde yoğun bir insan trafiğine sahne olan dar sokaklı küçük bir oto sanayi çevresinde yer alan dinamik ve kozmopolit bir hayatın oluşturduğu ses alanlarını belgeleyen işitsel bir hafıza projesi. LU Records ve Apeiron Kolektif ile Sounds of Darağaç projesi fikrinin ilk ortaya çıkışı ve projenin üretim aşamaları hakkında bir sohbet.

► Event will be streamed live via Instagram

:: LINKS ::

► Ali Cem Doğan @alicemdogan facebook.com/AliCemDogan cargocollective.com/alicemdogan

► Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç facebook.com/ahmetkenan.bilgic.31 @ahmetkbilgic

► Can Çetin facebook.com/canncetinn @grafensarg

►Emre Can Bulut facebook.com/emrecanbulut @emrecanswm

#music #soundspace #collectives

* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

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Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform

Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.

Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund

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