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Volkan T error

Year 2026

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Volkan T error is not only considered one of the pioneers of Turkish hip hop. Over the decades, he has also made a name for himself as a producer, performer and musician. He has worked with many international rappers and musicians, composing and developing pieces for theater, films, radio plays, installations and performances.

As a musical boundary-pusher, Volkan T error experiments with sounds, samples, beats, and lyrics, always on the lookout for new sonic landscapes and content. He mostly works in a docu-fictional style, blending various musical genres with hip-hop, electro, metal, and noise. He enjoys integrating field recordings and traditional Turkish instruments, building them into artful sound collages and beats.

He has recently been working on a massive back catalog and experimenting with visuals. In addition to unreleased tracks, he will also be releasing pieces he has written for various contexts, including theater, performance art, films, radio plays, and museums.

Volkan T error is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2026.

Year 2026

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© Atıf Ülkü

Volkan T error is not only considered one of the pioneers of Turkish hip hop. Over the decades, he has also made a name for himself as a producer, performer and musician. He has worked with many international rappers and musicians, composing and developing pieces for theater, films, radio plays, installations and performances.

As a musical boundary-pusher, Volkan T error experiments with sounds, samples, beats, and lyrics, always on the lookout for new sonic landscapes and content. He mostly works in a docu-fictional style, blending various musical genres with hip-hop, electro, metal, and noise. He enjoys integrating field recordings and traditional Turkish instruments, building them into artful sound collages and beats.

He has recently been working on a massive back catalog and experimenting with visuals. In addition to unreleased tracks, he will also be releasing pieces he has written for various contexts, including theater, performance art, films, radio plays, and museums.

Volkan T error is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2026.

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Audio Parazit x Kulturakademie

Date 25. April 2026

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Listening Inside-Out - Listening workshop with Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf

Date 02. May 2026

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© Willie Schumann

As part of their coproduction residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy, musicians and sound artists Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf are in cooperation with Performistanbul presenting the listening workshop Listening Inside-Out on May 2nd from 14.00 – 16.00h. This workshop explores themes of listening with and beyond the ears, slowing down, experiencing time & space.

Beginning at the dense and touristic site of Galata Tower, participants are invited to immerse themselves in the surrounding soundscape, experiencing the intensity, and transforming it within the field of listening. The group takes a silent walk to the contrasting soundscape of calm and green space of PerformIstanbul’s garden. Guided by prompts and questions, participants are invited to open ears through explorations of different modes of listening.

In the garden, a collective slow-walking practice inspired by deep listening invites heightened sensory awareness and attunement to the body, time and space.

The workshop culminates in a retreat into Nazlı Gürlek’s installation—the “womb”—at Performistanbul where participants are invited to imagine and listen inwardly.

The workshop explores listening as a connection between inside and outside: tuning into listening holistically to space, body, reflection, and imagination.

The event will take place in English language.
Snacks and a space for exchange will be provided as part of the event.

As the capacity of the event is limited, registration is required for participation.
You can register here or through the link below.

This event is takes place in cooperation with the Tarabya Cultural Academy and Performistanbul.
The coproduction residencies are awarded by the Tarabya Cultural Academy with the kind support of the Allianz Foundation.

Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf

Year 2026

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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 were 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.

Year 2026

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© Cristina Marx/ © Carina Khorkhordina

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 were 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.

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Anna Korsun

Year 2026

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Ukrainian-born composer Anna Korsun, studied composition in Kyiv and Munich. She composes for various ensembles, including voice, electronics and sound objects. Her works are featured internationally at concerts and festivals, including the ECLAT New Music festival, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the ISCM, Warsaw Autumn and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. The Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the SWR Vokalensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, ascolta, Ensemble Modern, AskoSchoenberg, Camerata Silesia and Silbersee have already performed her compositions. Korsun was rewarded with scholarships from Villa Massimo in Rome, the Goethe Institute in Canada, the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She is also recipient of several composition prizes.

Anna Korsun was in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2026.

Year 2026

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© Tetiana Korsun

Ukrainian-born composer Anna Korsun, studied composition in Kyiv and Munich. She composes for various ensembles, including voice, electronics and sound objects. Her works are featured internationally at concerts and festivals, including the ECLAT New Music festival, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the ISCM, Warsaw Autumn and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. The Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the SWR Vokalensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, ascolta, Ensemble Modern, AskoSchoenberg, Camerata Silesia and Silbersee have already performed her compositions. Korsun was rewarded with scholarships from Villa Massimo in Rome, the Goethe Institute in Canada, the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She is also recipient of several composition prizes.

Anna Korsun was in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2026.

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Nalan Karacagil

Year 2025

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In 2017, singer, DJ and producer Nalan, as part of the Gaddafi Gals, released the EP the death of papi. The debut album Temple followed in 2019, and the second album Romeo Must Die, in 2022. In 2021, she began her solo career and released her debut album I’m Good. The Crying Tape, which she took on tour in 2023.

Nalan is also part of the SLIC Unit DJ collective alongside Gaddafi Gals and works as a DJ under her alias slimgirl fat. Together with SLIC Unit, she went on a brief tour of Latin America and the United States in early 2024. They also are residents of FoundationFM, London at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg.

From 2020 to 2024 she worked as a writer and producer at Sony ATV. In 2021 she signed with the Berlin label Mansions & Millions and since 2022, with the booking agency Powerline.

Nalan follows her own notions of exciting vocal sounds and structures to create a unique blend of pop, RnB, and indie music. This is what defines her as a musician, as all music journalists agree.

Nalan Karacagil was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February 2025 to May 2025.

Year 2025

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In 2017, singer, DJ and producer Nalan, as part of the Gaddafi Gals, released the EP the death of papi. The debut album Temple followed in 2019, and the second album Romeo Must Die, in 2022. In 2021, she began her solo career and released her debut album I’m Good. The Crying Tape, which she took on tour in 2023.

Nalan is also part of the SLIC Unit DJ collective alongside Gaddafi Gals and works as a DJ under her alias slimgirl fat. Together with SLIC Unit, she went on a brief tour of Latin America and the United States in early 2024. They also are residents of FoundationFM, London at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg.

From 2020 to 2024 she worked as a writer and producer at Sony ATV. In 2021 she signed with the Berlin label Mansions & Millions and since 2022, with the booking agency Powerline.

Nalan follows her own notions of exciting vocal sounds and structures to create a unique blend of pop, RnB, and indie music. This is what defines her as a musician, as all music journalists agree.

Nalan Karacagil was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February 2025 to May 2025.

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Stellan Veloce

Year 2025

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Stellan Veloce is a Sardinian cellist and composer living in Berlin. They studied cello at the Cagliari Conservatory and composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts.

Veloce’s music focuses on timbral research, iteration, and modulations of sound densities, integrating composition with improvisation and collective practices such as playing in a band. Traditional Sardinian music is an important inspiration of their work.

Veloce composes music for ensembles and dance performances, favouring collective practices. They collaborate regularly with the choreographer Sheena McGrandles, the composer Neo Hülcker, and the filmmaker Silvia Maggi. They occasionally work on stage or studio in the pop music sphere, most recently with pop icon Peaches.

Veloce’s first LP Complesso Spettro includes two pieces for sextet that serve as a bridge between the different manifestations of their music, such as experimental rock, contemporary music, and improvisation.

Stellan Veloce is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026.

Year 2025

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Stellan Veloce is a Sardinian cellist and composer living in Berlin. They studied cello at the Cagliari Conservatory and composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts.

Veloce’s music focuses on timbral research, iteration, and modulations of sound densities, integrating composition with improvisation and collective practices such as playing in a band. Traditional Sardinian music is an important inspiration of their work.

Veloce composes music for ensembles and dance performances, favouring collective practices. They collaborate regularly with the choreographer Sheena McGrandles, the composer Neo Hülcker, and the filmmaker Silvia Maggi. They occasionally work on stage or studio in the pop music sphere, most recently with pop icon Peaches.

Veloce’s first LP Complesso Spettro includes two pieces for sextet that serve as a bridge between the different manifestations of their music, such as experimental rock, contemporary music, and improvisation.

Stellan Veloce is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026.

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Ignaz Schick - Istanbul Diaries I Durational concert installation

Datum 03. & 04. Mai 2025

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On May 3 and 4, Kulturakademie Tarabya alumnus Ignaz Schick will present his durational concert installation Istanbul Diaries at the Orient Institut Istanbul.

Istanbul Diaries is based on Ignaz Schick’s research he conducted during his 2018-2023 residencies at Kulturakadmie Tarabya, a research about how the
megalopolis sounds.
This durational concert installation of about 4 hours length combines sound and video installations, graphic/video scores, field recordings, ensemble conductions and small group improvisations involving 7 important experimental/contemporary musicians and protagonists of the vivid Istanbul music scene. Like this, a unique sonic mapping and portrait of this special city is created in a marathon like setting.

Supported by the Alumni Fonds of the Tarabya Cultural Academy, Istanbul Diaries is realized by Ignaz Schick together with Sevket Akinçi, Oguz Büyükberber, Anil Eraslan, Ulrich Mertin, Merve Salgar, Amy Salsgiver and Fulya Uçanok.

Istanbul Diaries is a co-production of Zangi Music/Zarek Berlin, the Orient Institut Istanbul & the Kulturakademie Tarabya.

Marc Sinan

Year 2013

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Marc Sinan is a composer and guitarist. In his work he tries out new forms of collaboration between artists in a transcultural and transmedia context. He usually works as composer, artistic director, guitarist, and producer with his own ensemble, the Marc Sinan Company, and with changing international guests and institutional partners such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Dresden Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ConTempo Beijing, Belgrade Ensemble Metamorphosis, Sonar Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and the media collective Schnellebuntebilder. Recordings of his works have been released by ECM Records. His mainly full-length works, which take up current socio-political issues, are performed internationally and have been guests at festivals such as the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Istanbul Festival, and MaerzMusik, and at venues such as the Halle Opera, Wuppertal Opera, Bremen Theater, Humboldt-Forum Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, and Wiener Konzerthaus. He lives and works in Berlin.

Marc Sinan was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from September 2012 to January 2013.

Year 2013

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Marc Sinan is a composer and guitarist. In his work he tries out new forms of collaboration between artists in a transcultural and transmedia context. He usually works as composer, artistic director, guitarist, and producer with his own ensemble, the Marc Sinan Company, and with changing international guests and institutional partners such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Dresden Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ConTempo Beijing, Belgrade Ensemble Metamorphosis, Sonar Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and the media collective Schnellebuntebilder. Recordings of his works have been released by ECM Records. His mainly full-length works, which take up current socio-political issues, are performed internationally and have been guests at festivals such as the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Istanbul Festival, and MaerzMusik, and at venues such as the Halle Opera, Wuppertal Opera, Bremen Theater, Humboldt-Forum Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, and Wiener Konzerthaus. He lives and works in Berlin.

Marc Sinan was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from September 2012 to January 2013.

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Mark Andre

Year 2016

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Mark Andre studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, and musical analysis at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP) and composition at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Among his teachers were Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann. He has been a resident at Villa Medici in Rome (1998–2000) and Fellow of the Berlin Artists’ Program of the DAAD (2005). In 2008 he received the Advancement Award of the Berlin Art Award of the Academy of the Arts. In 2009 the first complete performance of his tryptich …auf…took place in Berlin, and he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and professor of composition at the Dresden University of Music; in 2010 he was composer-in-residence and lecturer at the 21st Takefu International Music Festival; in 2011 he was awarded the Order Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture; in 2014 the world premiere of his opera wunderzaichen took place in Stuttgart; and in 2017 he was a lecturer at Impuls in Graz. He lives in Berlin.

Mark Andre was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July 2015 to February 2016.

Year 2016

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Mark Andre studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, and musical analysis at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP) and composition at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Among his teachers were Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann. He has been a resident at Villa Medici in Rome (1998–2000) and Fellow of the Berlin Artists’ Program of the DAAD (2005). In 2008 he received the Advancement Award of the Berlin Art Award of the Academy of the Arts. In 2009 the first complete performance of his tryptich …auf…took place in Berlin, and he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and professor of composition at the Dresden University of Music; in 2010 he was composer-in-residence and lecturer at the 21st Takefu International Music Festival; in 2011 he was awarded the Order Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture; in 2014 the world premiere of his opera wunderzaichen took place in Stuttgart; and in 2017 he was a lecturer at Impuls in Graz. He lives in Berlin.

Mark Andre was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July 2015 to February 2016.

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