Electronic Crossovers
The Islamic Face of Electronic Music: Muslimgauze
Sühan Gürer

Pera Museum’s talk and performance series Electronic Crossovers invites you to explore the fields that interact with electronic music!

A fruit of collaboration with Istanbul-based musical collective ÆVOM, “Electronic Crossovers” looks at a range of fields and disciplines that feed on and interact with electronic music, technology, literature, cinema, environment, psychology, sociology, computer games, politics, urban transformation, nature and philosophy to name a few. In February, the series will have Sühan Gürer and İz (Elifnaz Koçak) presenting the Islamic face of electronic music to music fans.

Alternative is a widely popular word in our day, and music is no exception to it. Throughout the broad range of the music scene, Muslimgauze stands out as a genuine alternative and dissident, one of the few names that do justice to this definition. Following a talk on how Muslimgauze’s experimental music career, launched with a naive debut, evolved into a humanitarian protest and a project that speaks up for the problems and the injustice in the Muslim world, İz (Elifnaz Koçak) performs in the DJ booth.

18:30     Talk
20:00     Performance

The event will take place at the Pera Museum Auditorium. Free admission; drop in. The talk will be in Turkish.

Sühan Gürer’s debut as a music critic was in1997 through fanzines. In 2000, he started to publish articles and interviews on the Trendsetter magazine, followed by radio production at Dinamo FM; and went on to write for the LiveIndigo magazine in 2002, and Kese Kağıdı and Babylonist magazines in 2003. Later on, due to a busy schedule, he concentrated on his blog (Proodos) and his website Dinleme Parkı named after his radio show. In 2013, he stopped writing periodically.

What is ÆVOM?
ÆVOM is an İstanbul based, borderless and independent collective organizing arts, culture and music events in different venues.