Discipline: Music
Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf
Fulya Uçanok is an electroacoustic musician, artist-researcher, and pianist working in electroacoustic and mixed composition, as well as contemporary free improvisation. Born in Turkey, she studied classical piano at Hacettepe University State Conservatory and completed her master’s and doctoral degrees at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music, İTÜ. Her doctoral research, completed in 2022, focused on electroacoustic composition through a response-able approach to musicking with human, more-than-human, and material agents. Her artistic practice integrates piano, objects, and electronics, foregrounding relational models of listening-responding, and material contingency. She is an active improviser whose work has been widely presented, and she also works through collaborative processes with diverse artists across performance, composition, and research contexts. Her current interests focus on sympoietic (making-with) practices, exploring human–instrument–material companionships within composition and performance.
Ulrike Ruf is a cellist, sound artist and curator of a concert series for experimental music. She develops stage pieces on biographical, social and contemporary historical themes, for which she researches in archives and works with interviews and field recordings. Her formative artistic inspirations came from Johann Kresnik at the Berlin Volksbühne and from her collaboration with dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests. She has composed pieces for choirs, collaborated with the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, musicians from the Ensemble Mosaik, choreographer Gabriel Galindez Cruz and poet Ulrike Almut Sandig. Her works have been presented at the Haus des Rundfunks Berlin, Radialsystem V and broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and more. She has played at international festivals as well as at Maerz Musik and Klangwerkstatt Berlin. Among her many awards and scholarships are the Opus Klassik for the music film StimmenÜberLeben.
Fulya Uçanok and Ulrike Ruf are in residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2026 as part of the German-Turkish co-production program supported by the Allianz Foundation.
Fulya Uçanok is an electroacoustic musician, artist-researcher, and pianist working in electroacoustic and mixed composition, as well as contemporary free improvisation. Born in Turkey, she studied classical piano at Hacettepe University State Conservatory and completed her master’s and doctoral degrees at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music, İTÜ. Her doctoral research, completed in 2022, focused on electroacoustic composition through a response-able approach to musicking with human, more-than-human, and material agents. Her artistic practice integrates piano, objects, and electronics, foregrounding relational models of listening-responding, and material contingency. She is an active improviser whose work has been widely presented, and she also works through collaborative processes with diverse artists across performance, composition, and research contexts. Her current interests focus on sympoietic (making-with) practices, exploring human–instrument–material companionships within composition and performance.
Ulrike Ruf is a cellist, sound artist and curator of a concert series for experimental music. She develops stage pieces on biographical, social and contemporary historical themes, for which she researches in archives and works with interviews and field recordings. Her formative artistic inspirations came from Johann Kresnik at the Berlin Volksbühne and from her collaboration with dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests. She has composed pieces for choirs, collaborated with the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, musicians from the Ensemble Mosaik, choreographer Gabriel Galindez Cruz and poet Ulrike Almut Sandig. Her works have been presented at the Haus des Rundfunks Berlin, Radialsystem V and broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and more. She has played at international festivals as well as at Maerz Musik and Klangwerkstatt Berlin. Among her many awards and scholarships are the Opus Klassik for the music film StimmenÜberLeben.
Fulya Uçanok and Ulrike Ruf are in residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2026 as part of the German-Turkish co-production program supported by the Allianz Foundation.
