Repertoire Rendez-vous

October 4, 2014

Thursday, September 4, 18:30

Evin İlyasoğlu, Alper Maral, Ersu Pekin

Presented within the scope of the exhibition Plurivocality: Visual Arts and Music in Turkey, and put together under the advisorship and with the contributions of Alper Maral and many other music experts, the Repertoire study conveys the visual and musical work created in Turkey over a period of 300 years. Located at the entrance to the exhibition hall where Plurivocality is hosted, the Repertoire section is a product of research on processes which developed in the first stages of the Westernization of the Ottoman Empire through the early Republican period. The research ranges from the musical tones of the abstract art of the 1950s to the popularized content of the 1980s. By revealing the reverberations of these processes in today’s artistic productions, both through breaks and continuities, Repertoire also provides the historical backdrop to the contemporary artworks in the exhibition.

The first event held in conjunction with Repertoire brings together three music thinkers and researchers specialized in different periods. The changes and transformation that occurred during each period are explained in the rendez-vous through examples in the field of music. Ersu Pekin talks about the role of music and the visual arts during the late Ottoman era and the early Republic’s sociocultural order; Evin İlyasoğlu presents the chronology of contemporary music in Turkey through pioneering examples from each period; Alper Maral explores the reverberations of the sociopolitical dynamics of the 1980s in the field of music, drawing attention to works in the field of electronic music and the expanding avant-garde approaches.

The event is free of charge and will be held at Istanbul Modern Cinema.


Left:

Evin İlyasoğlu

Center:

Alper Maral

Right:

Ersu Pekin

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