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Civilians (November 2023, 6’ 58”)
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Civilians is a work designed for BİLGİ New Music Festival 14 - Electroacoustic Intersections. The piece is a text-sound-based electroacoustic sound statement incorporating various texts and electronic layers. The selected texts are derived from televised interviews, news reports, published articles, and social media posts. This piece reflects on the concept of "civilian" as a subjectivity, particularly in light of the significant number of casualties in recent wars and conflicts, where these deaths are often regarded as a regrettable but inevitable consequence or collateral damage.
Civilians (Kasım 2023, 6’ 58”)
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Civilians, BİLGİ Yeni Müzik Festivali 14 - Elektroakustik Kesişmeler için tasarlanmış bir çalışmadır. Yapıt, bir dizi metin ve elektronik katman içeren, text-sound tabanlı elektroakustik bir ses beyanıdır. Seçilen metinler, televizyon röportajlarından, haberlerden, yayınlanmış makalelerden ve sosyal medya gönderilerinden alınmıştır. Bu yapıt, özellikle son dönem savaş ve çatışmalarında ölümlerin genellikle kaçınılmaz bir sonuç veya ikincil hasar olarak görülmesi üzerine bir düşünce sürecinde "sivil" öznelliğini ele almaktadır.
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THE TEXTS
"The civilian, is an invention of recent date. In international law, whose genealogies are no less invested in colonialism and imperialism, the figure is of even more recent date. As the Israeli military machine pursued their ferocious assaults on Gaza, as Hamas fired on a music festival, above all in the broken bodies filling the mortuaries, are we witnessing not only the deaths of hundreds of civilians but also the death of the idea of the civilian?"
"In times of war, Black and Brown men are dehumanized and erased. We focus on talking about the women and children of Israel and Palestine, but what about the men? Are they not worthy? Are their lives not divine? Are they not deserving of mourning?
The exclusion of Palestinian men (and Black and Brown men in general) in the global commentary is rooted in the inherent ideas that their lives are not as valuable, that they are “criminals,” “terrorists,” and that they are somehow deserving their deaths and harm, where women and children are not."
"Social death is a helpful way to conceptualize the preemptive and perpetual criminalization and dehumanization of Black and Brown men, and the containment and removal that results from that criminalization and dehumanization. The socially dead are outcasts, stripped of the right to be treated as part of the group and part of humanity."
"Her Kadın Sivil Doğar" ("Her Türk Asker Doğar" sözüne atfen)
"Every Woman is Born as a Civilian" (referring to the Turkey militarist motto "Every Turk is Born as a Soldier")
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released November 21, 2023
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Cover Painting: A drawing by an 8-year-old child whose village in Darfur was attacked in 2004.
Composer, voice performer. Studied Voice and Contemporary Composition. Works on New Music, Text Sound Art, Sound Poetry and Electroacoustic Music forms. Lives in İstanbul, Turkey.
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