Freedom to the Black, by ERDEM HELVACIOGLU

Freedom to the Black

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Arter's new series of sound art projects opens with the exhibition "Freedom to the Black" by renowned Turkish composer, sound designer, guitarist and producer Erdem Helvacıoğlu. Curated by Melih Fereli, the installation features Fluxus pioneer George Maciunas's work "Piano Piece" (1970) along with Helvacıoğlu's composition inspired by Maciunas's very piano, which is in the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection.

During the first ever performance of Maciunas's work, Ben Vautier, the French performance artist, nailed down all the white keys of this upright piano one by one, rendering the white keys immovable and thus leaving only the black keys functioning.

The accomplished composer Erdem Helvacıoğlu recorded the 'sound memory' of Maciunas's piano to create his astonishing 10-minute composition, "Freedom to the Black". He accomplished this over a four-day recording session, by using various pieces of equipment and materials—scissors, bows, earplugs, stuffed toys, drum sticks, mallets, hammers, screwdrivers, pieces of silk and wool, among many others things—to extract a wide range of sounds from the piano's body. Helvacıoğlu used 17 microphones with diverse characteristics and in unconventional placements for the recordings.

For the spatial design of the installation at Arter, the artist and the curator collaborated with Dr Tony Myatt, director of the Music Research Centre at The University of York. "Freedom to the Black" utilises an innovative sound system, "Ambisonic B-format", here used for the first time in Turkey. The system is installed in a specially designed ground-floor room at Arter and it involves sixteen speakers that surround the audience in three dimensions for full spherical sonic diffusion.

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released March 28, 2012

"Helvacioglu’s music is unusual in that it’s both high-concept and naturalistic. He blends sounds, genres and concepts with supernatural ease and uncanny flair."

Evan Burke, i care if you listen magazine

"Fascinating."

Textura magazine

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Produced by Erdem Helvacıoğlu

Composed by Erdem Helvacıoğlu

Recorded by Can Karadoğan, Alp Çoksoyluer at Babajim Istanbul Studios & Mastering

Recording assistants Berk Teker, Sinan Berksöz, Emre Koçak

Edited and mixed by Erdem Helvacıoğlu

Mastered by Pieter Snapper at Babajim Istanbul Studios & Mastering

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