Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Gelgit (2027) is a new evening-length work for voice, live augmented ebru instrument, live electronics and projection, written for the CCRMA Stage. In Turkish, gelgit means tide; read literally, it is “come-go”. In ebru it names a single gesture, the needle drawn back and forth through floating colour. In the craft, that gesture has always been learnt by copying: an apprentice repeats the master's strokes until the hand knows them, and the record keeps the master's name. Here the instrument is the apprentice. A listening system follows Eda Er's strokes on the water and the phrases of her voice and returns them, first as an echo, then as a second hand drawn in light across the projected bath, each pass reaching a little further into the room. Like a tide, the lead keeps turning. By the end of the evening it is no longer clear who is teaching whom.
About Eda Er:
Eda Er is a composer, new media artist and vocalist whose practice is grounded in embodied technofeminism. She builds responsive instruments from voice, material practice and computation, and performs them herself; the most recent, developed through her research project Fluid Narratives, is a live augmented instrument made from the ebru (Turkish marbling) tray, where a single gesture on the water becomes sound and image at once. Her music has been presented at Wigmore Hall, ZKM Karlsruhe, GMEM Marseille and the Gaudeamus Festival, and performed by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Ensemble Multilatérale. ResMusica described her work as “a kind of sanctuary prefiguring some morbid sacrifice… catching the eye as much as the ear.” She lives and works between the San Francisco Bay Area and Strasbourg, France.
www.edaer.me | www.fluidnarratives.xyz
Cost: FREE