Zeynep Toraman is a composer-performer based in Berlin. Working with voice, instruments, electronics, text, and memory, her music moves between contemporary composition, electroacoustic song, and intimate forms of sonic storytelling. Her work often draws from autobiography, literature, film, and archival materials, treating sound as a space where fragments of the past can return transformed.
Past and recent collaborators include Contrechamps, Ensemble Proton, Saviet/Houston Duo, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Quatuor Diotima, Distractfold Ensemble, and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Her music has been performed at festivals such as Festival Archipel (Geneva, CH), Sonic Matter (Zurich, CH) and IRCAM ManiFeste (Paris, FR). Her research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
She has released music with Obscure & Terrible, Sawyer Editions, Superpang, and Speckled Toshe and she collaborates closely with filmmaker Burak Çevik, and has written the music for Forms of Forgetting (2023) and The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants (2026).
Zeynep taught at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and she completed her PhD in Music Composition at Harvard University in 2023, where she studied with Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku and John Hamilton.
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