Electronic Crossovers
Ambient Electronic Music: Rediscovering Nature
Emre Karacaoğlu

Online Talk

January 14, 2021 / 19:00

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. The very first online event of the series focuses on ambient music with Emre Karacaoğlu and Utkanj.

Our modern lives overload us with too many options, objects, colors, sounds and references, which makes it very hard for us to find our thoughts, inner voice, identity, that is our true nature. Our world is far from providing the physical and mental silence required to do it, ambient music thus rises as the closest alternative.

19:00     Online Talk
19:30     Online Performance

The event will be streamed on YouTube. The language of the event is Turkish.

Emre Karacaoğlu wrote opinion columns and reviews on music, cinema and literature for many media outlets spanning Varlık, Cumhuriyet Kitap, Radikal Kitap, Cinemascope, Akşamlık, Gösteri, Gerekli Şeyler, HolySin, BirGün Kitap, Aydınlık Kitap, Sarnıç Öykü, Roman Kahramanları, Yüxexes and Bant. His Yüxexes articles was published into a book titled “Alienation in Music and Noir” by İmleç Publications in June 2011. His article series “Director-Musician Partnerships”, a collaboration with author Hikmet Temel Akarsu and Yavuz Angınbaş, is published on the Hürriyet Gösteri magazine. In addition, he regularly writes articles for the Kahverenkli magazine and Paslanmaz Kalem and shares his experiences of Ghana on the website Filhakikat. He translates Turkish pieces of literature into English.

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

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