Throbbing Gristle, Hafler Trio, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, Caberet Voltaire, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Kraftwerk, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Bulent Arel, Leon Theremin, John Cage, Edgard Varese, Luigi Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Maurizio Bianchi, Brian Eno, Hawkwind, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Hijokaidan, C.C.C.C, Merzbow, Aube, MSBR, Kazumoto Endo, The KLF, The Orb, etc...
Dadaism, Futurism, Musique Concrete, Fluxus, Conceptual art, industrial life & culture, god & human, love & hate, space & earth, science & technology, noise & silence, everything & nothing, 01010101 ...
Sounds Like
experimental music . electronic music . industrial music . noise music . ambient music . improvised music . drone music . space music . new age music . contemporary music . soundscape . sound art . sound installation
BATUR SONMEZ started all his experimental music projects in Istanbul, early 1998. When he founded "Atom Music - Atom Media" in 1998. He also found an idea for the musical scene in turkey called "Atom Music Movement ". He already has started some own experimental, electronic, noise & audio-visual projects such as Analog Suicide (analog electronic industrial noise music) , Audio (field recordings), Radiophonik (Radiophonic art), Werk (industrial),
Noiseistanbul (field recordings soundscape). He released his first CDs from Atom Music label. He played & organized a lot of live performances in Istanbul. Dadaloop is one of his audio-visual project about Dada art movement. Dadaloop performed first live with turkish multimedia pioneer Teoman Madra in istanbul 2003. Analog Suicide and Mindscan( his another main project that is experimental electronic / sound art) participated Phonem international electronic music festival in istanbul, 2004. He also participated in 23.rd international contemporary artists exhibition in istanbul, 2004 with Mindscan .
In 2005, Analog Suicide was released a split cd with "Kazuya Ishigami a.k.a Daruin" from Japan. One track from Analog Suicide released by "Mothers Against Noise" compilation series. Now , BTR (a.k.a Batur Sonmez) "The blue code waveform" track on Beyond Ignorance And Borders compilation cd was released by Syrphe Recs.
Mattin/ Gen 26/ Batur Sonmez 3 way split cd was released by [&] Recs in 2007.
>> He was on tour in Japan then Russia in 2006. After the tours , He founded his new label / studio called TRansmit // audio visual arts.
>> TRansmit started to organize new experimental electronic noise event series called “ Signals From Outside” in istanbul. Past events : Astro, James Plotkin, Fire In The Head, Mattin, Freida Abtan, Error, Eric Boros, Matt Chaumont, Noisejihad, Unique Oil Free Air, F?, etc.
>> TRansmit// Recs released "Analog suicide & Astro - live in tokyo" colloboration cd in December 2006. Then,
"Analog Suicide / Error - live in istanbul" split video was released .
Analog Suicide video was re- released with new cover artworks .
"Analog Suicide / Fire In The Head" split cd was released by TRansmit.
Analog Suicide - Beta cd is out now!
More info : www.myspace.com/transmitrecords
>> Analog Suicide was on tour in Europe two times in 2007, April (Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Austria) and November-December (Spain, France, Belgium, Germany).
>> Analog Suicide was on tour in Baltic in 2008, May ( Latvia & Lithuania).
>> Analog Suicide was on tour in Europe in 2008, November ( Holland, Poland, Austria, Czech Rep, Germany)
>> February- March 2009, He was on tour in Japan. He performed Analog Suicide (in Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hamamatsu & Tokyo ) and Noiseistanbul project (in Hiroshima) . it was successful tour.
more info at tour reports.
Batur Sonmez NOISEISTANBUL >> world premiere performance - berlin , october 2008 . Noiseistanbul is his field recordings soundscape audio - visual project.
Batur Sonmez >> signals from outside 4 - istanbul, september 2007
Batur & Maurizio Bianchi in Milan, May 2007
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" TIME AND SPACE DIED YESTERDAY.
WE ARE ALREADY LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE, FOR WE HAVE ALREADY CREATED ETERNAL, EVER-PRESENT SPEED. "
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From the 1st to the 11th of April 2009, the Némo festival in Paris will present you the best of digital arts and new cinema.
AV performances, interactive installations, musical feature films, short films (CG animation, hybrid cinema, motion graphic design, etc.) and much more !
