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Cenk Ergün A native of Turkey, Cenk Ergün is a San Francisco based composer and laptop performer. In 1995, Cenk moved to New York to study composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he began composing for chamber ensembles. In 1999, he moved to California to further his studies at Mills College, where he became interested in laptop improvisation using samples. Cenk's chamber music has been performed by various artists such as Joan Jeanrenaud, Fred Frith, Abbie Conant, Ossia, Musica Nova, and Alarm Will Sound, at venues including the Merkin Hall (John Schaefer's "New Sounds Live"), Symphony Space (2003 Bang on a Can Marathon), and SomArts Gallery.
As a laptop performer, Cenk has collaborated with various artists including Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, William Winant, and choreographer Alyssa Lee Wilmot, performing at venues such as the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Other Minds Brink Series, The Deep Listening Space, The Lab, Stanford University, the C.E.A.I.T. Festival at CalArts, and most recently the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) at San Jose, and the Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul. I draw my musical material from my personal relationships with everything that makes sound. Blending patient and sparse textures wih momentary outbursts of activity, I examine the relationship between real time and musical time. Acoustic or electronic, my work aims to magnify the physical details of sound traveling in time and space. Cenk Ergün makes music with the sounds of bees, goats, chimps, bats, whales, ships, ship horns, sine waves, feedback, electric currents, machines, people, pianos, autoharps, drums, celli, clarinets, trombones, and the home shopping network. Selected Kudos:
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