An article of mine (in Turkish language) titled “Sesin Özgürleşmesi: Müzik Prodüksiyonu Teknolojileri” (Liberation of Sound: Music Production Technologies) is published in the January 2013 edition of Birikim Magazine. Birikim is a highly recognized, monthly socialist culture magazine in Turkey.

The proceedings of 2nd CompMusic Workshop, which was held in July 12th-13th, 2012 in Bahçeşehir University, are now online. In the proceedings, I have a paper titled An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music of Turkey. I have also contributed to another paper titled A Musically Aware System for Browsing and Interacting with Audio Music Collections.

The presentations of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop, which was hosted in Bahçeşehir University between 12th and 13th July 2012, is online in CompMusic Project‘s Youtube channel. I have also given a presentation about the paper submission named, An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music in Turkey. You can watch the presentation above and check the pdf of the presentation here…

Next week between July 12th-13th, 2012, I will be attending to the 2nd CompMusic Workshop in Bahçeşehir University. I will present the paper titled An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music in Turkey. I have also contributed to another paper titled A Musically Aware System for Browsing and Interacting with Audio Music Collections.

The conference paper titled “Crossole: A Gestural Interface for Composition, Improvisation and Performance using Kinect” will be presented in NIME 2012, Ann Harbor, MI. You can also read the poster here. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an annual interdisciplinary conference discussing contemporary topics in electronic musical interface design, research and practice.

Meaning crossword of music, Crossole is a musical instrument where music is visualized as a set of virtual blocks that resemble a crossword puzzle. The performer controls music by manipulating the crossword blocks using hand movements. You can read more about the instrument here. Yo can also watch a performance of Crossole below:

A paper about Crossole, a virtual instrument developed by Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Anosh Daruwalla and myself have been accepted to NIME 2012. The conference will be held in University of Michigan between 21 and 23 May.

Meaning crossword of music, Crossole is a musical instrument where music is visualized as a set of virtual blocks that resemble a crossword puzzle. The performer controls music by manipulating the crossword blocks using hand movements. You can read more about the instrument here. Yo can also watch a performance of Crossole below:

A short article of mine about football literature has been published in the September 2011 issue of Agos Kirk. This article is part of the “Football Literature” section prepared by my friends Emre Can Dağlıoğlu and Tamar تامار Nalcı. You can read the article in Az Bilmiş Özneler in here, along with Can Öktemer’s article and the interview with Tanıl Bora. You can also find the scan of the article in here. Note that the articles are written in Turkish.

The conference paper titled “Modeling Melodic Improvisation in Turkish Folk Music Using Variable-Length Markov Models” will be presented in ISMIR 2011, Miami, FL. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend this year’s conference, but any attendees can see the poster in the 15:10-17:00 session on 25 October 2011. You can also read the poster here. Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has been the world’s leading forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data.

The paper describes the Uzun Hava Humdrum Database, the first machine-readable symbolic database of uzun havas, a non-metered structured improvisation form in Turkish folk music, and also a computational system, which is shown to predict the improvised melodic progressions in Turkish folk music with success.

Sang Won Lee, Avinash Sastry, Aaron Albin and I performed LOLC in the opening concert of NIME 2011, May 29th at Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Oslo, Norway. We got wonderful reaction from the audience. It was my last performance at GTCMT, but hopefully I will be able to perform with this bunch of misfits again… You can watch the performance below:

Aaron and I have also presented Beatscape in the conference. You can read the paper in here.

The paper titled “Beatscape, a mixed virtual-physical environment for musical ensembles” is accepted to the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2011, which will be held in Oslo between May 30th and June 1st. In the paper, we present a a mixed virtual-physical environment that promotes interdependent ensemble virtuosity in musical performance. You can read more about the project and the paper in here.