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New commission for
the Official Title Sequence
Turkey Guitar Meeting 2021
guitar solo and electronics
https://turkeyguitarmeeting.com/
composed and performed
by Can Bilir
commissioned by Prof. Kağan Korad and Bilkent
June 10–13, 2021
Art as a Response to Mental Health
Exhibition
Doncaster Art Fair, UK
“NOSTALGIA for hand crank music box"
music and drawings for analog music box
https://www.doncasterartfair.com/
June 2nd, 2021
"It is such a nice news for me to learn that out of 2500 applications, my Nostalgia for Hand Crank Music Box (2019) is in the selected-featured works for the 2021 ART AS A RESPONSE TO MENTAL HEALTH EXHIBITION 2021 of Doncaster Art Fair in the Yorkshire, The United Kingdom.
During June, about four weeks you will have access to Nostalgia online in their website. There is the YouTube link for listening in the Fairs page, and more information on my website canbilir.com.
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Nostalgia a very different work that I created two years ago; originally commissioned for University of Michigan, (Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia Conference in 2019. It was not only a process based on musical creation. I had to modify multiple music box-beds and finally build the instrument for this project. I have used mixed methodologies and composing styles. The archival research on Eva Gauthier’s travel in Java, precise stamping process on the music box sheets, and making the drawings along the way are all were very special, different, intimate process for me to deal with the subjects of memory, trauma, and postcolonialism, and learning.
One prototype is stored in the US and one in Turkey. Along the way, if life turns back to “live” again, I would love you to hear this work live, and even possibly play this music by yourself in an installation." cb
Global Meltdown
Exhibition
Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY
“the ghosts of the world behind"
multimedia poetry, sound, and motion picture
http://www.slowart.com/limner/exhibits/melt21/index.htm
Slow Arts Production
September–October, 2021
Imagine Together
Exhibition
by 1078 Gallery in Chico, CA
“the ghosts of the world behind"
multimedia poetry, sound, and motion picture
will be featured by 1078 Gallery, based in Chico, CA.
Imagine Together: Hopeful Visions for our Future.
April–May 2021
The Dreamers
Exhibition
by the Holly Art
www.theholyart.com
“what is it like to be a bird in the windowless skies?”
multimedia
After the first week of Can's solo online exhibition
IN A LOCKDOWN VOL.1 at canbilir.com,
what.is.it.like.to.be.a.berd.in.the.windowless.skies? will be featured in London based The Holy Art-Hackney Downs Studios'
Exhibition the Dreamers.
April 14–20, 2021
In A Lockdown Vol.1 will be still available on canbilir.com website in case you’d like to visit anytime.
Paper presentation
"(Eco)cosmopolitanism and silence in John Cage's art and philosophy"
American Comparative Literature Association 2021 Annual Conferences
Panel: The Sounds of the Other
In A Lockdown–Online Solo Exhibition
“what is it like to be a bird in the windowless skies?
poetry and multimedia exhibition
(through the website this season)
Poems and multimedia art
Sei Solo Project Commission and Collaborative Album Project is in Recording Sessions
Ephemeral Qualia for amplified violin solo
by Klasik Keyifler & Ellen Jewett for Kerem Tuncer, Ada Muzik Co. Istanbul Studios
Remembrance Species 2020, the collaborative album that Catalog of Species is featured on, was released!
The project is curated by Bell Lungs of Remembrance Species Scotland and Laura Luna Castillo of Lunetario Editorial. Remembrance Species is a collective from Scotland, UK marking Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30th.
You can purchase the album here: https://remembrancespecies.bandcamp.com/
The album sale and profit will be split between Umbral Axochiatl, an axolotl conservation charity in Xochimilco, Mexico City and the Scottish Seabird Centre, a seabird conservation charity in North Berwick, Scotland.
In addition, I’m honored to be be featured in Remembrance Species 2020 Exhibition as a sound artist, here is the link.
Full information of the sound works and artists:
https://www.lunetarioeditorial.com/rs2020soundworks
"My work Catalog of Species was performed and recorded by the wonderful New York-based ensemble sTem in 2017 at Cornell University. I bring the critically endangered Bornean Orangutan and bird interactions to the concert staging in this work. I significantly benefitted from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s archives and my own field recording analyses.
2020 has reshaped the common sense; the ordinariness of our lives has become surrounded with the questioning of the sense of place, risk, environment, territories, and lives within and beyond our own more than ever. As a collective, I’m happy to be part of this project that might touch your lives and I’m hoping to generate an awareness to support the lives that include both human and beyond human species in similar and distant habitats." CB
full album: for Catalog of Species, go to Track 10
Older News
Four new OA score publications by UCLA
Contemporary Music Score Collection powered by California Digital Library at the University of California in collaboration with Kaleidoscope.
Sei Solo Project Commission and Collaborative Album Project is in Recording Sessions
Ephemeral Qualia for amplified violin solo
by Klasik Keyifler & Ellen Jewett for Kerem Tuncer, Ada Muzik Co. Istanbul Studios
(Postponed!) Paper Presentation “Pitch, Schematism, and Isomorphism”
European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMac 10), 21–26 September, 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19)
Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
Composer’s talk
November 8, 3:40PM, FMPA 245, Bilkent University, Ankara
Trio V ‘Overpressure: Redefining the Boundaries of the ‘Things’ Thailand Premiere
in 15th Thailand International Composition Festival Competition, Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize Finalist, August 5-10, 2019
Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
Quintet Thailand Premiere
Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, July 7, 2019 Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand
Paper presentation “Smelling the Sound: Attention and Centricity in Cross-modal Compositional Contexts”
Association of Asian Studies in Asia Conferences, July 1-4, 2019
Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
Premiere of KATIK for Orchestra
conductor Adrian Slywotzky and Cornell Symphony Orchestra April 28, 2019 Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Premiere of “Nostalgia” and presentation in (Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia CSEAS Graduate Student Conference
April 6, 2019 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
String Quartet II NYC premiere
Ensemble IPSE, December 4, 2018 8PM, Arete Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Premiere DUSUK
Momenta Quartet & Cornell Gamelan Ensemble Nov 6 &7 2018, Cornell University Barnes Hall, Ithaca NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art premiere of Irresolvable Fragment by Aizuri Quartet and Kinan Azmeh
May 31, 2018 World Cafe Live Philadephia PA
June 1, 2018 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Premiere by Distractfold Ensemble
April 14, 2018 Harvard University Paine Hall, Cambridge MA
Paper presentation: “Listening to the Resonance of Apparitions Zaide/Adama by Mozart/ Czernowin”
2018 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), March 29-1, University of California, Los Angeles CA
Concert
Intercultural Music Conference & Concerts 2018 (ICM2)
March 20-23, 2018 Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun Turkey
Premiere by ensemble STEM
March 16, 2018 Church of the Blessed Sacrament 71 West, New York NY
Premiere by ensemble Adapter
November 4, 2017 Harvard University Paine Hall, Cambridge MA
HGNM Composers Colloquium Presentation,
October 16, 2017 Harvard University Department of Music, Cambridge MA
Interview: Cornell Research
