SEMINARS

Guitarist, composer, and lecturer Şevket Akıncı will present a series of pocket-seminars titled The Other Jazz, prepared for iKi Muzik. In this series, he will explore jazz styles outside the mainstream, which he refers to as "alternative currents." He will discuss Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, the Second Chicago School, Impressionist Jazz, and Postmodern Jazz, illustrating them with examples and examining their interactions across different periods, cultures, and approaches.

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This four-week seminar series can also be considered a micro version of Akıncı’s book The Other Jazz, published by Pan Publishing in 2021 under the same title.

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"With the facilitation of international communication, it would be inaccurate to deny the interactions between different cultures—sometimes dominant, sometimes intense, and sometimes playing a secondary role. To understand free jazz musician Ornette Coleman, one must look at the history of mainstream jazz; to understand the free improvisation collective AMM, one must examine the history of contemporary music; to comprehend eclectic jazz musician John Zorn, one must understand postmodernism; and to grasp the Japanese noise movement, one must study the Fluxus movement."

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This exciting pocket seminar, enriched with numerous musical examples and videos, will take place online via Zoom. Registered participants who miss a session can request a link and will have access to the seminar for one week.

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*The seminar will be held online in Turkish on February 18–25, March 1–8, 2025
Tuesdays, 21:00–22:30

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In this inspiring seminar, we will explore the pioneering role of women in the world of music, celebrating their creativity, courage, and influence on the universal language of music.

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Over the course of four weeks, we will trace the journeys of female musicians throughout music history, witnessing their unique musical paths while also examining the impact of music on gender and discussing the struggles women face in the music industry. In the final seminar, we will listen to the compelling stories and experiences of our guest artists.

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Join us as we explore the impressive works and performances of influential female artists across a wide range of genres, from jazz to classical music, from popular music to world music.​

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The seminars will be conducted in Turkish and will last 90 minutes.

Pianist, composer, educator Selen Gülün explains the history of jazz from the perspective of an active musician in the field, from the beginning to the present, in a four-week seminar designed as an entertaining, immersive and instructive journey.

 

The seminar will take place online from Zoom between at 9 PM local time in Turkey on Tuesdays, 4-11-18-25 April, 2023. Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for 48 hours.

 

*The seminar will be held in Turkish.

In this music culture seminar, prepared and presented by academician and musician Tolga Tüzün, we will explore the political and social impacts of unusual sounds in music together. By questioning the boundaries between music and sound, we will examine the cultural meanings of extraordinary sounds each week through different themes and music examples.

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From pop music to urban sounds and even the evolving soundscape through technology, we will learn how unusual sounds have become tools for rebellion, expression, and power. Considering that even silence can be part of music, we will view the sounds we encounter daily from a completely new perspective.

 

This seminar, which does not require any prior musical knowledge, is open to anyone interested in understanding how unconventional sounds impact our lives. We will listen to examples from different cultures, engage in discussions, and explore the political and social messages behind these sounds. Join us to experience sounds in a new way, and together, let's push the boundaries!

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*The seminar will be held online in Turkish on Mondays, from 21.00 to 22.30, on the following dates: October 21, 28 and November 4, 11, 2024.

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Pianist, composer, educator Selen Gülün explains the history of jazz from the perspective of an active musician in the field, from the beginning to the present, in a four-week seminar designed as an entertaining, immersive and instructive journey.

 

The seminar will take place online from Zoom between at 9 PM local time in Turkey on Tuesdays, 9-16-23-30 January. Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for a week.​

 

*The seminar will be held in Turkish.

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For watching excerpts from 2023's seminar on YouTube click on the poster!

The 10-year period that started after the release of Miles Davis's 'Birth Of The Cool' album forms the modern language of jazz. Within 10 years, the most important movements of jazz music such as hard bop, free jazz, and modal jazz were originated by legendary musicians such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, and the most important albums of history were released one after another.

 

As writer Steinberger puts it, “Jazz, as a serious and enduring form of art, is essentially a phenomenon of the American 50’s: to understand jazz is to understand the 50’s, and to understand the 50’s is to understand jazz.” In this 4-week pocket seminar organized by Selen Gülün on behalf of iKi Muzik, we will get to know the currents, musicians and important albums of the period, and embark on an entertaining and instructive journey that is told in depth from the perspective of a jazz musician.

 

We will meet with Zoom between 20-27.06,

4-11.07, Tuesday, 21.00-22.30.  Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for 48 hours.

 

*The seminar will be held in Turkish. Anyone who wants to know jazz music can join.