FACT Mag contributor AdamBadí Donoval speaks to Turkish sound artist Ipek Gorgun about her new Touch Label albumEcce Homo and the search for meaning in her work.
“The title, Ecce Homo,of the latest solo endeavor from Turkish sound artist and producer Ipek Gorgun translates to “Behold The Man(kind).” Gorgun wants to shine a light on our individual and collective search for meaning, on whether there is “anything meaningful beyond flesh and bones.” Her music, full of abstraction, looks to reflect human civilization and its ability to create both beauty and destruction, its tendency to progress and to then decline. “I didn’t focus on one specific aspect of the human,” she says. “There are so many layers to human behavior and human nature to be explored and discovered.”
Gorgun took up solo production after playing bass and singing in bands like Bedroomdrunk and Vector Hugo for over a decade. In 2016, she self-released her debut, Aphelion. Her latest follows a collaborative LP Perfect Lung with Ceramic TL fka Egyptrixx, performances at Sonar Istanbul and BBC Radio 3’s Open Ear and opening for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Oggimusica Acousmonium with an electronic rework of Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’.”
Listen to Ecce Homobelow and learn more about her Rewire 2019 performance at Ipek Gorgun.
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