Zeynep Toraman
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Calendar of Performances

Upcoming

September 9, 2026 | Drift Reading w/ Zeynep Toraman, guest episode, Noods Radio, Bristol (UK)

September 12, 2026 | Solo electronics, Sowieso, Berlin (DE)

Past
(2026)

June 13, 2026 | Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars, with Contrechamps, Ircam ManiFeste, Paris (FR)
May 22, 2026 | Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars, Solo Version at Grambacht, Mechelen (BE)
May 6, 2026 | Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars, Solo Version at KM28, Berlin (DE)
April 18, 2026 | Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars, with Contrechamps, Archipel Festival, Geneva (CH)
March 28, 2026 | Solo electronics, LOM space, Bratislava (SK)
March 27, 2026 | Glossolalia, live at Kiosk Radio, Brussels (BE)
March 11, 2026 | days that last forever, at Interfinity Festival, Basel (CH)
February 20, 2026 | Solo electronics, Clarmor’s Fundraiser event for Gaza, Bar Neun, Berlin
February 1, 2026 | Collective Lovemusic, slow poem (v1), Lieu d’Europe, Strasbourg
January 24-25, 2026 | MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik, growth&phantasm, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin

(2025)

December 19, 2025 | Afterimages is out on Superpang!
December 16, 2025 | with Sarah Saviet - Joe Houston, album for the young, KM28, Berlin
December 11,12,13, 2025 | with Ensemble Tzara and Burak Çevik, all the tired horses, Zurich
December 7, 2025 | stromspiesser, Mex KELLER, Dortmund
December 6, 2025| with Ensemble Vortex long lurking in the sky, Geneva
November 29, 2025 | Solo electronics, dim things, Berlin
November 19, 2025 | Solo electronics, La Brèche, Lausanne
November 8, 2025 | Improv set with Efe Demiral, Kapelle 99, Berlin
November 2, 2025 | Solo electronics, with Max Eilbacher, Morphine Raum, Berlin
October 31, 2025 | Solo electronics, Aanen Lumo, Helsinki
October 29, 2025 | Solo electronics, Nya Perspektiv, Västerås
October 20-31, 2025 | Residency at EMS, Stockholm
July 26, 2025 | Solo electronics set / MANTIC organized by VūMantra Records at Astral Junction - Berlin (DE)
April 9, 2025 | Solo electronics set at Refuge Worldwide - Berlin (DE)
April 1, 2025 | Solo electronics set at O Tannenbaum - Berlin (DE)

March 14, 2025 | Solo electronics set at Alte Münze - Berlin (DE)

February 7, 2025 | new work for Saviet/Houston Duo at ECLAT - Stuttgart (DE)
February 23, 2025 | Ensemble Reflexion K and Julia Spaeth perform The sea they think they hear at ProvinzLärm 2025 - Eckernförde (DE)

(2024)

December 18, 2024 | Solo set of well-tuned romantic harmonies, reimagined for electric guitar and electronics at KM28 in Berlin (DE)

December 3, 2024 | TAK Ensemble performs Veils at DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, NYC (USA)

November 26, 2024| Ensemble Linea performs slow poem (v3) at Wien Modern - Vienna (AT)

November 12, 2024 | Solo electronics set at DRESSING CIRCLES - Antwerp (BE)
November 2, 2024 |Studio Musikfabrik performs Epokhe at NOW! 2024, PHILHARMONIE ESSEN, Essen (DE)
October 24, 2024 | Solo electronics set at F/eks, Oslo (NO)
October 3, 2024 | a lifetime of annotation premeired at DARA String Festival, Berlin (DE)
October 24, 2024 | Solo electronics set at F/eks, Oslo (NO)
September 25, 2024 | Solo electronics set at Spanners Club in London (UK)
September 20, 2024 | Distractfold performs Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon at Another Sky Festival in London (UK)
May 14, 2024 | Ensemble Linea performs Awake (over the darkening land) at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL (USA)
May 10, 2024 | Ensemble Linea performs Awake (over the darkening land) in Baltimore, MD (USA)
April 4, 2024 | Sysslorna at 3:e Våningen in Gothenburg (SE)
March 16, 2024 | Anora[k]araoke in Berlin(DE)
March 12, 2024 | Local Heroes Ep#1 with Jules Reidy at Cashmere Radio
February 26-29, 2024 | Workshop and Lecture as a part of Sound Arguments 2024 at Orpheus Institute, Ghent (BE)
February 25, 2024 | Hezarfen Ensemble performs Awake (over the darkening land) at Arter Museum in Istanbul (TR)
January 27, 2024 | Contrechamps performs Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon at Les 6 toits in Geneva (CH)

(2023)

November 30, 2023 | Contrechamps performs Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon at SONIC MATTER in Zurich (CH)
November 10, 2023 | Performing fragments from Loose Adaptations alongside Madison Greenstone at KM28 in Berlin (DE)
October 27, 2023 | Performing fragments from in a Dark House at Vrooom, Rotterdam (NL)
October 23, 2023 | Apparat with members of Ensemblekollektiv perform SUNSOAKED for trumpet, tuba, violin, cello, and electronics and Acid Glow, Unnatural Splendor for trombone and electronics at KM28 in Berlin (DE)
October 2, 2023 | Aditya Ryan Bhat performs mountains move like clouds at Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne (AU)
September 29, 2023 | Distractfold performs An emotional rollercoaster just for you at Another Sky Festival in London (UK)
July 23, 2023 | Ensemble Linea performs slow poem (v3) in CORDES-SUR-CIEL (FR)
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 (DE)
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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 (DE)
May 14, 2023 | Collective Lovemusic performs slow poem (v1) at MAMCS, Strasbourg (FR)
May 10, 2023 | andPlay performs slow poem (v2) at New Music at Short North Stage, Columus, Ohio (USA)
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 (TR)
April 29, 2023 | Collective Lovemusic performs slow poem (v1) as a part of the HGNM Residency series, in Cambridge, MA (USA)
April 27, 2023 | Dissertation Colloquium at Harvard University

April 19, 2023 | andPlay performs slow poem (v2) at the Crypt Gallery, New York, NY (USA)

April 7, 2023 | Performing fragments from in a Dark House at KM28, Berlin (DE)

March 25, 2023 | Burak Çevik’s’s Forms of Forgetting at Cinéma du Réel, Paris (FR)

March 9, 2023 | Performing fragments from in a Dark House at Alan#3 at Daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)

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 (CH)
February 19, 2023 | the Same Moonlight will be premiered by Ensemble Proton Bern at Farelhaus Biel, Biel (CH)
February 18, 2023 | Burak Çevik’s Forms of Forgetting at Berlinale Forum, Berlin (DE)

(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