Chromatic

Index
Season  3



E.24      CW x Postklub Satellite
E.23      A Desperate Vitality
E.22      On the Verge
E.21       Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners
E.20      Talking Nature
E.19        Invisible to the Eye
E.18        Uncomfortable Utopia
E.17        Belonging
E.16        Collective Utopias
E.15        The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED
E.14        Light Exciter
E.13        Dare You Say: Game Night
E.12        Enigma
E.11         Chronicles
E.10        Equal Distance
E.9          Syntax
E.8          Spectrum
E.7          Gelgit
E.6          Of Memories and Dreams
E.5          Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»
E.4          Trembling Ground
E.3          Tumultuous
E.2          Sketches of Eastern Ukraine
E.1              E.1           Thinking about the Meanings of the Archive

Se    
Season 2


E.24      110 × 3:33:08
E.23      Glaring Light
E.22      She-Pigeon
E.21       Presence of the Absent
E.20     Sunken Temple
E.19        Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak
E.18        Anatolian Leopard
E.17        Phantom Power & Eribòz
E.16        Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations
E.15        Rockingdesk & Fine Tuning
E.14       «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with Hive International  Short Film Days  Berlin
E.13        Offseeds present  «Tales of Extinction»
E.12        The Matter of Memory
E.11         A.I.D and abet! #3
E.10        Anthony Hüseyin – Project O: «Yıldızların Altında» Release
E.9          MitEinAnder – an exploration
E.8          Troubled Relations
E.7          The Ruins of Empire
E.6          Wanderings Through Uncertainty
E.5          The Hungry and the Restless
E.4          Haunted / Desert
E.3          Part 1 / Part 2
E.2          Liquid Machine
E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!
             



“Chromatic Wednesdays”is a bi-weekly event series organized by Apartment Project, which promotes artistic expression across various disciplines and formats. Each month, Chromatic Wednesdays focuses on a new theme, for which two events are realized. In 2022, the themes were: Improvisation, Exile, Precarity, Mutualism, Recurrence, Echoes, Divergence, Instability, Curiosity, Resonance, Sanctuary and Inversion. In 2023: Solidarity, Upheaval, Resistance, Light, Comma, Mythology, Position, Urbanism, Unbound, Dystopia, Home and Intelligence. Chromatic Wednesdays invited artists, musicians, performers, scientists and cultural practitioners to collaborate, experiment and share their unique research, practices and experiences with each other and the public. The events included a wide range of multidisciplinary, hybrid formats, including concerts, performances, workshops, film screenings, lectures, exhibitions, readings, and panel discussions.

In 2021 the project came to life as a reaction to artistic disruption caused by the pandemic.  Today numerous challenges persistently endanger cultural production. How do artists and  audiences from different backgrounds and mediums come together? What forms of new expression can be explored or can be expanded? What kind of new networks between institutions and artists can be established? How can these networks sustain the survival of the artists?

As part of Chromatic Wednesdays’ Season 2 and 3, a total of 167 participants from countries, such as Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Norway, Japan, Iran, Poland, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Russia, China, the U.K, USA, Portugal, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cameroon, Namibia, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Russia, Taiwan were invited. Of them, 92 female, 63 male and 12 non-binary participated.

The very first editions were streamed online due to Corona measures. Since June 2021, the events have been held in a hybrid format, mainly at the Apartment Project and online.
             Team:                    Emre Birişmen – Project Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl – Project Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Selda Asal – Lead Artistic Advisor
Berk Asal – Production / Administration
Gabriela Seith – Content Writer / German Translation
Merey Şenocak / Ece Gökalp / Gökçe Berndt / Soliane Malefond – Promotion / Social Media
Suat Can Beldek – Graphic / Webdesign
Beril Ece Güler / Cemre Bayatlıer – Production Assistant

2nd Season Advisory Board:                   Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann

3rd Season Advisory Board:                   Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
                Moderation:                   Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer

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Season 3
Episode 10

Theme:Comma

28 June ´23


EQUAL DISTANCE
«Solo Piano» by Ozan Tekin
Piano improvisation by Or Solomon in Ölberg-Kirche
This episode of Chromatic Wednesdays showed two piano performances that revolved around the meaning of «Comma» in music theory. In it, it describes a very small interval, bringing two notes closer together by tuning them differently. Although played one after the other, Ozan Tekin and Or Solomon’s performances converged through their commonalities of artistic exploration, personal expression and innovative approaches. Ozan ‘s compositions from his latest album «Anarya» took listeners on a musical journey that blended diverse influences from his hometown Adana, his temporary home of Istanbul and his recent home of Cologne. ‹Anarya gitmek› is an idiom in Ozan’s hometown that means ‹to go back› and expresses his symbolic return migration in his album. The resulting tracks are a sonic story reflecting Ozan’s various memories from these three places. His catchy tunes, immersive melancholic arpeggios and restless changes, albeit in different styles, express the ever-changing sense of belonging and the melodies that cannot be assigned to any specific ‹heimat›.

Taking up on this musical strand, Or Solomon sensitively expressed breath transformed into spoken words through his elegant and virtuosic playing, combining improvisation with his compositions. A dialog emerged between the words and the piano, joined by spatial constructions of Or’s «Meditations». This is a series of recorded improvisations reminiscent of the visual arts: Or powerfully paints a whole palette of sound imagery, a panorama of melodic and colorful fields, a bestiary of mythological animals, of sudden thoughts and of instinctual impulses as in mythical parables. Both artists reveal a sense of musical experimentation, pushing the boundaries of traditional musical forms. Their projects embody a fusion of musical influences and demonstrate their unique artistic vision to reinvent the art of solo piano performance.

Ozan Tekin (b. in Adana) is a composer and producer based in Cologne. He began playing the piano at the age of five, cultivating his attention to the phenomenon of sound at an early age. His latest album «Anarya» is a three-part compilation of his piano works, released in May 2022, in which he projects his compositions over neo-classical, jazz and ambient music. In his debut album «Pillars of Salt», released in October 2019, Ozan experiments with ambient compositions. Ozan also releases singer-songwriter songs under the alias Seyrek Rifat and composes music and does sound design for theater, performance, film and TV productions in Germany and Turkey.

Or Solomon (b. in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli-French pianist, composer and improviser. His life-long musical research has led him to develop an original approach to the piano as a sound generator, drawing inspiration from all interrelated dynamics, often resulting in abstract expressionist forms. He is obsessed with tying his music to a structure, set, harmony or a loop to create powerful musical, verbal and colorful images. The resulting pieces evoke paintings of abstract expressionism as they play with gestural strokes composed through spontaneity. At the same time, Or’s outstanding improvisations are always closely linked to his compositions.


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