Meeting Point: Büyükhüsun /// Programme
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Hoppa Essentials – Ankara, TURKEY
Established in Ankara in 2007, Hoppa Essentials modernizes North and East Turkish music with western sounds like jazz, blues, rock and funk by combining them all. By collecting the individual musical approaches of the band members under the umbrella of ethnical music the group members have created a synthesis of experimental music and improvisation on Anatolian rhythms. Hoppa essentials performed in England at Liverpool International Street Festival in 2007 and 2008 and Volos International Art Festival in Greece. The group keeps on performing in Ankara.
Mamapapa Band - Prague, Czech Republic
Inspired by Finno-Ugric and Balkan folklore, the band's music form is based on a mixture of Slavic pop, punk and improvisation. Mamapapa Band uses traditional and unusual musical instruments like violin, accordion, bass-clarinet, as well as root of a tree! The band members are Tomas Zizka (CZ-SK), Agnes Kutas (HU), Sojcevski Dragan (SRB) and Jan Holecek (CZ).
www.mamapapa.cz
DJ Murat Meriç - TURK-İŞ FUNK – İstanbul/Ankara, TURKEY
Çanakkale born Murat Meriç's 'music carrier' that started by listening to vinyl when he was a child, has moved to another direction when he discovered the newspaper archive in National Library. He collects, listens, investigates the history of records, writes about them and enjoys playing them to people... His book "Pop Dedik – Türkçe Sözlü Hafif Batı Müziği" on Turkish pop music is published in 2006. Becoming more and more famous with his 'Türk-iş Funk' parties, Murat Meriç filled the streets of Gülpınar in Meeting Point in 2007 with Turkish pop music of the 60s and 70s and gathered city dwellers and villagers, Turkish people and foreigners, young and old alike in the town square, dancing, at times hand in hand, for hours on end.
Movie Night @ Büyükhüsun
An open-air movie theatre will be formed in the village square to make a film screening. The villagers will make their own selection from the alternatives provided by film expert Savaş Arslan* for the movie night.
*Savaş Arslan is Associate Professor of Film and Television at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has published articles on Turkish cinema, arts, and culture in a variety of international journals and magazines, including Cineaste, Shakespeare, Film International, and Cinemascope, and book chapters in Youth Culture in Global Cinema (University of Texas Press) and The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets and Museums (Hatje Cantz). He has also written a book, Melodrama (in Turkish), portions of which also appear in various journal and magazine articles and as book chapters. He is currently completing his second book, Hollywood alla Turca: A History of Cinema in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Starry Midnight Walk
The Starry Midnight Walk will be realized with the guidance of Özlem Ergun, as the sun sets behind the Lesvos Island; continuing on the track between Büyükhüsun, Kozlu and Sazlı villages. Focusing on our five senses, this silent walk will stimulate our smell, hearing, sight, taste and touch senses sometimes simultaneously and some other times irregularly; hence helping us to receive and perceive our environment. The participants are expected to bring their own torches.
Complementary Activities
Movement Orchestra Workshop
Course Leaders: Özlem Alkış, Ekmel Ertan (BIS Body-Process Arts Association)
The workshop will concentrate on body, movement and new technologies. Designed for Büyükhüsun's primary, secondary and high school students, the course will follow up a path to create awareness of participants' own bodies, as well as others' bodies, movements and learn collaborative thinking and moving. The workshop will use motion tracking system to map sound and/or music to the movements of the participants which will create an orchestra of movements. Through this system, the participants will be able to 'program' the performance scenes to create an audio-visual story with their bodies and movements.
Workshop will start with warm-ups followed by creative movement exercises and continue with the practices on relation of the body and movement with the motion tracking technologies. The second part of the workshop focuses on simple improvisation techniques, where participants work on the relation between movement and sound. Lastly, participants will work on simple compositions of music/sound on computer and the movement to be presented as final a work.
Duration: 3 days, 15 hours in total
"Meeting Point on Air!" Workshop
Course Leader: Ekmel Ertan* (BIS Body-Process Arts Association)
To be held two days before the start of the project with a maximum of six participants, the workshop participants will document and broadcast on the web throughout the week. After the training, the workshop participants will document the whole project simultaneously on the web blog that they have opened with videos, sounds recordings, photographs and texts. The participants will attend all project activities with their MPA badge and publish the contents they have created on the web blog.
The participants will have an intensive course on video and photography, editing on computer, creating and updating a blog on the web. The expected profile of the participants is outgoing, interested in journalism and writing, having basic computer skills. The target group of the workshop is secondary and high school students of Büyükhüsun.
*Ekmel Ertan is the founding member of AMBER Body-Process Arts Association, the laboratory and research-and-production platform on new technologies in art. Ertan is curator and director of the annual amber Festival since 2007. Since 1999, he is teaching multimedia / visual communication design at Istanbul Bilgi, Sabancı, İstanbul Technical, Yıldız Technical Universities. He worked as a designer and test engineer on telecommunication systems NETAŞ Northern Telecom (TR), ALCATEL SEL (DE) and ALCATEL BELL Lab. (BE). He has shown his works and performances in various international venues. Ertan is co-organizer of TECHNE06 Istanbul International Digital Performans Platform.
www.amberfestival.org
