Başak Günak is back at EMS. She is a sound artist and composer, also internationally known as AH! KOSMOS
in the field of electronic music.
Her work includes sound art, performance, sound
installation, composition for theater & contemporary
dance.
She released two LPs from Compost Records
& Denovali Records, one collaborative LP and
numerous EPs. Both timeless and otherworldly,
Günak’s work unconsciously defies being tied to
a genre, tapping into something beyond an immediate surrounding or experience to communicate something
more transcendental. Günak uses polyrhythms,
electronic composition and found sounds to build
a mystical world of modulation into which one can
sink and be carried away.
In addition to her musical compositions with
AH! KOSMOS, Günak pursues her sound
experimentations as a sound artist, composing
soundscapes for theatre, contemporary dance,
film and visual art projects, and realising
site-specific performances.
Her works have been featured worldwide in several
festivals and institutions, such as Barbican Theatre (UK), Martin-Gropius Bau(DE), Royal Theater Carré (NL),
Sonar Festival (SP), Berlin CTM Festival (DE),
Rotterdamse Schouwburg (NL) and Prague
Quadrennial (CZ). n 2020, she presented her latest
solo sound installation THE WELL, a piece for
11 speakers and performance in VKV Museum Istanbul.
Recently, she has done composition for Martin-Gropius
Bau, Berlin State Museums, Kunstmuseum Basel and granted a residency in HELLERAU (DE), Gate27 (TR)
for her upcoming sound installations.
Photo by Furkan Temir
Başak Günak's residency at EMS is kindly made possible by a grant from the
European Union's Culture Moves Europe program implemented by Goethe-Institut
.
Disclaimer: This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union.
The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
