Cevdet Erek
Concert
Cevdet Erek is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and musician who lives and works in Istanbul. Being interested in how sound engages with memory, he utilizes his background as an architect to create spatial, site-specific installations that often refer to historical events — such as one of his most notable works, Bergama Stereo, commissioned by Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, in 2019, where he reimagined the Pergamon Altar through an architectural construction augmented with an industry-standard club sound system — as well as a performance program that hosted several artists over the course of the exhibition. Cevdet’s works usually invite the audience and other artists to actively engage with both the sonic and physical environments he creates, making a bow to the communal fundament of music history — especially those types of music that heavily involve rhythm, which he understands as a trans-sensorial phenomenon that connects time with space, biology with culture.
Cevdet is also known as a performer, working with various traditional percussion and drum instruments from the region, as well as a founding member of Nekropsi — a cult Turkish experimental metal band. Currently, he is a member of the faculty at Istanbul Technical University’s Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) and the Turkish Music State Conservatory.
Zincirli, by Cevdet Erek
Zincirli, by Cevdet Erek