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Zeynep Toraman
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Calendar of Performances
Upcoming

September 29, 2023 | Distractfold performs An emotional rollercoaster just for you at Another Sky Festival in LONDON , UK
October 2, 2023 | Aditya Ryan Bhat performs mountains move like clouds at Australian National Academy of Music in MELBOURNE, Australia

Past

(2023)
July 23, 2023 | Ensemble Linea performs slow poem (v3) in CORDES-SUR-CIEL, France
July 21-27, 2023  | Composer-in-residence at Festival Cordes-sur-Ciel
July 14, 2023 | in a Dark House album release party with Kole Galbraith at Centrum, BERLIN, Germany
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June 8, 2023 | Lecture  at Orpheus Institute as a part of DocARTES
May 17, 2023 | Performing “Gelgit” with Seda Mimaroglu at Chromatic Wednesdays, BERLIN, Germany
May 14, 2023 | Collective Lovemusic performs slow poem (v1)  at MAMCS, STRASBOURG, France
May 10, 2023 | andPlay performs slow poem (v2) at New Music at Short North Stage, COLUMBUS, Ohio
May 5, 2023 | Presenting  my paper titled "The Sound of the Sea all the Time: Fantasies on a Sonic Enigma", at the At Land and Sea: Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image Conference at Bilgi University in ISTANBUL, Turkey
April 29, 2023 | Collective Lovemusic performs slow poem (v1) as a part of the HGNM Residency series, in CAMBRIDGE, MA
April 27, 2023 | Dissertation Colloquium at Harvard University
April 19, 2023 | andPlay performs slow poem (v2) at the Crypt Gallery, NEW YORK, NY
April 7, 2023 | Performing fragments from in a Dark House at KM28, BERLIN, Germany
March 25, 2023 | Burak Çevik’s’s Forms of Forgetting at Cinéma du Réel, PARIS, France
March 9, 2023 | Performing fragments from in a Dark House at Alan#3 at Daadgalerie, BERLIN, Germany
March 2, 2023 | Burak Çevik’s Forms of Forgetting at Doc Fortnight, NYC, USA
February 20, 2023 | the Same Moonlight  will be performed by Ensemble Proton Bern at PROGR Bern, Aula, BERN, Switzerland
February 19, 2023 | the Same Moonlight  will be premiered by Ensemble Proton Bern at Farelhaus Biel, BIEL, Switzerland
February 18, 2023 | Burak Çevik’s Forms of Forgetting at Berlinale Forum, BERLIN, Germany


(2022)
September-December 2022 | Visiting researcher at Orpheus Institute
November 30, 2022 | Daniel Brew of Distractfold performs Shallow Water at Iklectik Art Lab, in London, UK
October 7, 2022 | Gardens  programmed at the 8th edition of the digitIZMir International festival
September 26, 2022 | Presentation on my works at the Orpheus Institute General Assembly
September 17, 2022 | Opening of Caring Futures, original music and sound design for Åsa Båve’s exhibition - Sølvberget, Stavanger, Norway
August 6, 2022 | Looks but Glances for “Experiences” – GMEA - Centre National de Création Musicale d’Albi-Tarn, in ALBI, France
June 12, 2022 | Alberto Anhaus performs mountains move like clouds at the Festival Traiettorie in PARMA, Italy
June 14, 2022 | Acid Glow, Unnatural Splendor and Damaged Equally was performed by Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn and Winnie Huang in BOSTON, MA
May 30, 2022 | Acid Glow, Unnatural Splendor and Damaged Equally will be performed by Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn and Winnie Huang in ISTANBUL, Turkey
May 14, 2022 | Alberto Anhaus performed mountains move like clouds at Pakt Bern in BERN, Switzerland
May 25, 2022 | Acid Glow, Unnatural Splendor and Damaged Equally was performed by Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn and Winnie Huang in at Izmır New Music Days, in IZMIR, Turkey
May 5, 2022 | Noam Bierstone performed mountains move like clouds at CMC in TORONTO, Canada
April 8, 2022 | SUNSOAKED for Trumpet, Tuba, Violin, Cello and Electronics premiered by Ensemble Musikfabrik  as a part of the HGNM Residency series, in CAMBRIDGE, MA
March 12, 2022 | Awake (over the darkening land) premiered by Ensemble Multilatérale at Philharmonie de Paris in PARIS, France
February 20, 2022 | traces(i) for Clarinet, Double Bass, Trumpet and Electronics premiered by Madison Greenstone, Kathryn Schulmeister and Alexandria Smith as a part of the HGNM Residency series, in CAMBRIDGE, MA

(2021)
November 16, 2021 | Colorists are epic poets premiered by Klasik Keyifler at Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Turkey
October 31, 2021 | Acid Glow, Unnatural Splendor performed by Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn at WIM in Zürich, Switzerland
October 29, 2021 | Acid Glow, Unnatural Splendor performed by Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn at GNOM in Baden, Switzerland
October 29, 2021 | Noam Bierstone’s debut album including my solo percussion piece mountains move like clouds, realeased by No Hay Discos
September 18, 2021 | Dal Vero performed by Caleb van der Swaagh at Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY
September 4, 2021 | Colorists are epic poets recorded by Klasik Keyifler at Saruhan Kervansaray in Cappadocia, Turkey
August 28, 2021 |  … A gilding process that echoes back to ancient times performed by Ensemble Linea at Royaumont Abbey, France
August 3, 2021 | [CANCELED] … A gilding process that echoes back to ancient times was to be premiered by Ensemble Linea at Darmstadt Ferienkursen, Darmstadt, Germany
May 31, 2021 | Release of book chapter, “’What is Gordon Cole Listening to?’: The Rethoric of Subjective Sound in Twin Peaks: The Return” in Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds by Routledge, edited by Reba Wissner and Katherine Reed
April 18, 2021 | Veils  recorded by TAK Ensemble at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music as a part of the HGNM Residency series

(2020)
May 23, 2020 | The sea they think they hear recorded by Wet Ink Ensemble at the Scholes Street Studio as a part of the HGNM Residency series

(2019)
October 5, 2019 | Damaged Equally; everyone spoke too fast premiered by Lauren Cauley as a part of the HGNM Residency series, in Cambridge, MA
April 20, 2019 | new, old and previously unexhibted premiered by ELISION Ensemble (Peter Veale, Richard Haynes, Tyler J. Borden) in Cambridge, MA as a part of the HGNM Residency series, in Cambridge, MA