Past News
Can's third String Quartet, Fallen (Düşük) is the 11th globally most high impact score
in the largest open access score repository eScholarship — Contemporary Score Collection, University of California Los Angeles Library
the initial cycle, and in the top 15th work, 2020-2021 & 2021-2022
out of total 5.514 scores, 68.595 views, 28.607 downloads, promoted by over 300 libraries worldwide!
Thanks to all his supporters, The UCLA Library, and The University of California System!
Listen to the Gamelan and String Quartet collaboration version of
DÜŞÜK (FALLEN), Momenta Quartet and Cornell Gamelan Ensemble 2019:
Paper Presentation:
"Multiphony and Reductive Ecologies" (2023)
Urban Forum, Osaka Metropolitan University & Chulalongkorn University, March 7–8, 2023
The Second Century Fund Research Fellowship Award
Can was recently awarded with The Second Century Fund C2F Research Fellowship for FAAMAI Digital Arts Hub at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, with his creative work proposal and research project Silent Frictions.
photo credit: Time Out
electroacoustic music concert
New York, NY
New York City Performance of Life: first gave...
Fifteen Minutes of Fame - Vox Novus by Thomas Piercy
Talk
Creative Sound Studies: a Seminar on Interdisciplinary Methods of Music and Listening
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Ataturk Kitaplığı, İstanbul
January 13, 2022
38th MESA FilmFest
film and non-genre works with
the ghosts of the world behind
Middle East Studies Association of North America, Tucson AZ
Can is invited to be featured in the 38th Annual Film Festival as a filmmaker. The ghosts of the world behind, involving the subjects including and not limited to life and sound projections in the Anthropocene, sci-fi, environmental risk, social frictions in the region and sense of place, posthumanism, (eco)cosmopolitanism, post-colonialism and more.
Nov 29 – Dec 3, 2021
More details will be available in Fall 2021
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Radio talk
Metropolitika
Açik Radyo 95.0
November 17, 2021
"Konuğumuz, müzisyen ve akademisyen Can Bilir ile ses üzerinden mekana ve insana bakmayı konu ediniyoruz. Sesin ve kompozisyonun yerle ilişkisinden konuşurken Bruno Latour'dan Gilles Deleuze'e ve John Cage'e kadar uzanıp Antroposen Çağı'na sesle tanıklık etmekten bahsediyoruz."
"With our guest, musician and academic, Can Bilir, we talk about looking at space and identity through sound. When talking about the relationship of sound and composition with place, we are talking about witnessing the Anthropocene Age with sound, delving into Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and John Cage."
Please join if you can!
ACLA 2022
American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Meeting
June 15–18, 2022
Call for Papers
New deadline: January 15, 2022, online participation
Seminar: Political Ecology of Silences
organized by dr. can bilir
ACLA Annual Meeting 2022
Virtual Conference
June 15 –18, 2022
Hosts: American Comparative Literature Association & National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan
Link to seminar description and abstract submission:
https://www.acla.org/political-ecology-silences
Further instructions:
https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper
Note from the organizer:
It’s my distinct pleasure to organize the multidisciplinary seminar, Political Ecology of Silences at the ACLA-American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting 2022.
Open to all scholars, faculty, and students working on broadly defined subjects of Music, Sound Studies, Film, and Literature.
Presenters of the seminar, Political Ecology of Silences, will be considered for a special issue on sound, physicalness, environment, and posthumanism.
I look forward to seeing your papers and learning about your researches in depth.
Diorama Room
Tune in to Green, Minor Chord Exhibition
the ghosts of the world behind
Until November 19, 2021
Artist talk November 7, 2021 , Sunday, 2:30PM (EST)
Diorama Room, LLC was first imagined as a collaborative, immersive arts space featuring works by artists whose practice is to explore a dialogue between the human and natural realms. Covid-19 rearranged everyone’s plans, but one thing that is being said often is that people are finding solace by slowing down and spending time outdoors. Therefore, for the time being, our dream of a physical space is on hold, but will exist online as a series of quarterly short film exhibitions called Tune in to Green.
The Tune in to Green – Minor Chord is a special one-month show that revolves around the following statement:
This time of year harkens powerful ancestral memories.
A more serious tone rules the days.
Motifs of death and decay are commonplace.
We are reminded that our flesh is not immortal,
but the damage we do may be.
Instead, let us leave sweet memories of ourselves
for future generations through serious commitment
to the planet and each other,
by contemplating and taking action,
despite the uncomfortable changes required.
It contains 1 hour + 50 minutes of videos, animation, poetry, music and sound work made in dialogue with nature + artist statements and bios by the following artists & many others:
EuroMac10
European Music Analysis Conference in Moscow
At the European Music Analysis Conference in Russia, EuroMac 10, I will present my new paper with additional expanded analyses from my dissertation on Zaide / Adama composed by wonderful artist and my professor from Harvard, Chaya Czernowin. I will further discuss Deleuze, Latour, Kantian Schematism, cosmopolitanism, and the culture-nature dichotomy through lines of historicities.
Place: Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory Conference Hall
Thursday September 23, 2021
15pm (GMT+3 Moscow time)
Panel: Musical Semiotics, Rhetoric, Topic, and Schemata Theories (33A)
Please join if you can!
New Poetry Publication
The ghosts of the world behind, poem
Plant Press Zine - Petuni Art, London, UK
PetuniArt (Amy Pezzin) is an artist based in London, who primarily works with illustration and book-binding. She uses a delicate and mindful approach to beautifully portray aspects of the natural world and directly address growing concerns towards the climate crisis. She hopes to advocate a more environmentally conscious mind-set towards the Earth. (from https://petuni.art/)
Website publication is available
Zine publication is Fall 2021
New Work Premiere
I'm listening to a senile man
composition for piano, electronics, and poem
Suoni Per Il Popolo festival Montréal, Canada
suoniperilpopolo.org
for Deterritorializing the Realm of New Music
Canadian Music Center (CMC Ontario) & Iranian Female Composers Association-IFCA in collaborationpianist Anoush Moazzeni
https://suoniperilpopolo.org/en/program/anoush-moazzeni
October 11–November 19, 2021
Diorama Room Austin, TX
New York: June 15, 6:30pm
Istanbul: June 16, 1:30am
Bangkok: June 16, 5:30am
Hong Kong: 6:30 am
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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
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
