Korhan Erel

I will play a concert on 24-speakers in the Multimedia Theater at City University of Hong Kong’s Soundlab on April 17. The concert starts at 18:00 and I will also do an artist talk before or after it. I will facilitate my workshop “LocationSong” on April 18 at Goethe Institute Hong Kong with the invitation of Eugenia Law, who is the curator of the exhibition that my workshop accompanies:…

Our electro-acoustic chamber ensemble Ephemeral Fragments—consisting of Florian Walter on Tubax contrabass saxophone, Emily Wittbrodt on cello, and Korhan Erel on synths and electronics—will start 2026 with a three-concert tour in Switzerland and Austria. Since 2025 we’ve been glad to be supported by the state of North-Rhine Westphalia as part of its funds for Ensemble Development. Last year…

Pianist Neslihan Schmidt and electronics player Korhan Erel are a newly formed duo. They have set out to develop a repertoire of structured improvisations on prepared piano and electronics. They will play their debut concert at Galiläakirche in Berlin on 10th June, 2025, where they will play structured improvisations and loosely organized music. Doors open at 19:30 and music starts at…

The improvising trio Ephemeral Fragments was initiated by Florian Walter in 2019 at a concert in Essen. Since then, the trio consisting of Florian on tubax, Emily Wittbrodt on cello and me on electronics, has rehearsed, recorded, played concerts and released their debut album mit gefühl (with feeling). Following a Goethe Institut funded short tour in Finland, Estonia and Denmark in 2024, they…

My partner Tuçe Erel and I have started our musical family business FitFot in 2023 and played two concerts in that year and then at the wonderful, bizarre club night KOOKOO, a lovechild of Mieko Suzuki and Arno Raffeiner in 2024. Since then we have been busy developing material and have also plans to expand into discoursive lecture sound performances on ecology and other relevant issues. Enjoy…

I have been extremely lucky to be an Arvore Foundation recipient since September 2022. Arvore is based in Basel and has been granting living cost supplements to musicians in Switzerland and Germany for almost a decade now. This grant has enabled me to focus on my own ideas and on projects with other musicians I hold dear, but the initial months following their decision to give it to me have been…

On October 4, I’ll play a concert with the amazing musicians that are Shabnam Parvaresh on clarinets/effects and Sofia Labropoulou on kanun at exploratorium’s Klangbildung 24 Festival that is also a celebration of the venue’s 20th anniversary. Check out the full program at this link! There are workshops, book launches and an exhibition besides…

On Wednesday, June 26, I’ll be playing an improvised concert with Jessica Ackerley (guitar), Eli Wallace (piano), Camila Nebbia (sax) and Cansu Tanrıkulu (voice, effects) at Sowieso. This is going to be a fun evening of first encounters for me. The only musician I’ve played with before is Cansu – in many settings as well as in our duo Pep Talk On Saturday, June 29, I’ll be playing a structured…

After playing two concerts on May 3rd at Istanbul’s wonderful concert venue Borusan Music House with Pep Talk and Böseblick, I stayed mostly under the radar, only going up for rehearsals and fun stuff with friends. Before my partner Tuçe Erel and I leave for Basel for a 2-week residency in Basel, Switzerland, I will play two shows in Berlin. The first one with a new project, the latter with an…

I will be bringing two bands of mine to Istanbul in May. Pep Talk, our experimental pop improvisation duo with extraordinary singer-composer Ayşe Cansu Tanrıkulu, and the electronic music quartet Böseblick with Alessandra Eramo, Kirsten Reese and Ariel Orah will play at Istanbul’s gem of a music venue Borusan Music House on May 3, 2024. Pep Talk combines poetry, mainly from Charles Lindsay’s…

The improvising trio of Ephemeral Fragments was founded in 2019 in Essen, Germany and has been playing and recording since then. It consists of cellist Emily Wittbrodt, tubax player Florian Walter and me on electronics. We released our debut album “Mit Gefühl” on Umland Records in 2022. After playing various venues in Germany in the last four years, Ephemeral Fragments goes on tour in March.…

New media artist Liudmila Siewerski and I met at Cafe Babette in October 2022 at my performance there. We stayed in contact, talked, rehearsed and will now perform at the same venue on November 16 at Forgotten Islands, an evening of audiovisual performances curated and organized by Liudmila. The evening will feature several other exciting acts: Anne WodtckeLiudmila Siewerski & Sander…

Kin(d) from Korhan Erel on Vimeo.

This is a short audiovisual piece I created in late 2021 for a scholarship application. All visual material was shot by me sometime in 2003-2004 using a mobile phone. I came upon these videos when Google Photos suddenly decided to show them to me. Turns out it had been archiving everything for the past 20 years or so.

Some phone videos had some sort of digital hum that ended with a thud. These sounds are also a part of the music. Other sounds are either a part of the video recording (recordings off TV screens, etc) or my designs. The "language" used is a made-up one that I created using an AI voice of a child.

public AV series ∞ mapping spacetime 0001 from Sanja Star on Vimeo.

mapping spacetime series by  Sanja Star [ vid ] + Grgur Savic [ mus ] pitchshifting.live > Korčula, Croatia 42° 57′ 0″ N, 17° 7′ 30″ E August, 2023 

improvised AV projection mapping on the rocks 

On August 31, 2023, I’m going to present my 7-piece composition “7 Habits of Highly Miserable People” in its entirety at the Audiovisionen concert series curated by Hannes Teichmann at Kulturraum Zwinglikirche. Audiovisionen is one of Berlin’s prominent electronic/electro-acoustic concert series that has featured performances by Robyn Schulkowsky, Thomas Fehlmann, Baby Vulture, Peter Kirn and…

I have been playing with the amazing voice artist/composer Ute Wassermann on and off since our meeting on the exact day I moved to Berlin in 2014. We performed in quartets, in larger ensembles, played several duos in Berlin and Istanbul and then the pandemic happened.. We are now reviving our duo and will perform an improvised concert at Keith Bar in Berlin on Monday, July 24, 2023. The concerts…