Başak Günak
At EMS 16-23 March 2025
EMS welcomes Başak Günak back as a Guest composer in March.
She is a composer and sound artist internationally known as AH! KOSMOS in the field of electronic music.
Günak pursues her sound experimentations as a sound artist, realizing site-specific performances and composing soundscapes for theater, contemporary dance, film and visual art projects.
Her works have been featured worldwide in several festivals and institutions, such as Barbican Theatre, Sonar Festival, Berlin CTM Festival, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Prague Quadrennial and Istanbul International Theatre Festival.
She presented her solo sound installation THE WELL, a piece for 11 speakers and performance, in ARTER Istanbul in 2020 and sound installation for brass and speakers in 2023 in the ancient Çinili Hamam.
In recent years, she has composed for Berlin State Museums, Gropius Bau, Kunstmuseum Basel, was granted a residency in HELLERAU, Bijloke Academy and invited for a commissioned piece by the Dutch National Opera and Sharjah Biennial 16.