Erel’s music covers free improvisation, conceptual sound performances, as well as structured and composed pieces, music for contemporary dance, theatre, and video art. Erel performs solo, duo, and group performances with improvisers, jazz musicians, dancers, in ensembles and orchestras. Current projects and bands include The Liz (with Liz Allbee and Liz Kosack), Ephemeral Fragments (with Florian Walter and Emily Wittbrodt), Nervous Entanglement (with Malte Jehmlich), Serene (with Laia Genc), Lettow Erel (with Gunnar Lettow).

Korhan has held three residencies at STEIM (Center for research & development of instruments & tools for performers) in Amsterdam, where he studied use of sensors in music performance and instrument design. He was a guest composer at the Electronic Music Studios in Stockholm in January 2011. Korhan has eleven CD and LP releases on Umland Records (Germany), FMR (UK), Gruenrekorder (Germany), Creative Sources Records (Portugal), Evil Rabbit Records (Netherlands/Germany), A.K. Müzik (Turkey), Müzik Hayvanı (Turkey) and Kukuruku Recordings (Greece) as well as several digital releases.

Korhan has performed in Soundtrips NRW, Moers Festival, Labor Sonor, Klangzeit Festival, Borusan Music House, XJAZZ, All Ears, New Adits, Akbank Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, TADAEX and at many more venues and festivals across Europe, Middle- East, Southeast Asia and North America. Erel has shown several sound installations in art spaces in Germany, Hong Kong and Turkey.

Korhan’s collaboration with Sydney-based video artist Fabian Astore »The Threshold« has won the Blake Prize in Australia in 2012.