Ömer Kurtuluş

Composer, music technologist and sound artist. Sonic archaeology: composing by excavating and re-authenticating an over-saturated archive.

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Writing

Articles and technical notes: sonic archaeology and re-authentication, timbre and its cognition, the phenomenology of silence, and the systems behind individual works.

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01 Notes on the STRATA II engine Three RAVE models in continuous feedback, corrected by a listener module that measures the system's drift against its own untouched source. August 2026

02 Review of Gurumbé On the documentary's account of the Afro-Andalusian presence in Spain and its effect on Andalusian culture and flamenco. March 2026

03 Sonic Archaeology in a Post-Cultural Horizon: Re-authentication in Contemporary Classical Composition The article that names the method. Composition inside an over-saturated archive: why "culture" has become analytically unstable, what re-authentication replaces it with, and how double excavation works backwards into instruments and forwards into future archives. November 2025

04 Neural Architecture of Timbral Form: Mapping Saariaho's Six Japanese Gardens onto the Brain's Auditory Segmentation Network Timbral cognition as structural architecture: how Saariaho's Six Japanese Gardens maps onto the auditory segmentation network, and what that implies for treating timbre as form rather than colour. November 2025

05 The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Classical Music Composition An inquiry into creativity, authenticity and new methodologies at the intersection of AI and contemporary classical composition. October 2025

06 Spectromorphology of Saariaho's Serenatas (Misterioso) Hearing the Misterioso movement through a single timbral map: spectral focus, morphology, and the movement of local energy clusters rather than a melody-harmony narrative. October 2025

07 The Slippery Ground of Timbre: A Human-Centered Journey from Sound to Meaning Timbre as the category defined by what it is not — the most fundamental determinant of a sound's identity and the one with no settled definition. September 2025

08 Rhizomatic Networks in Music: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of Conceptual Nodes The rhizome as a model for music: beyond linear and hierarchical forms, music as a connecting, branching, transforming flow — perpetually in the making. August 2025

09 The Disappearance of Sound: Phenomenology of Sound and Silence in Sciarrino's Perduto in una foresta lontana Sciarrino's 1990 work read phenomenologically, technically and politically: how sussurando and flautando build a phenomenology of breath, and how silence becomes musical material rather than absence. June 2025

10 Reconfiguring Cultural Identity in Contemporary Composition How contemporary composers engage cross-cultural elements to reconfigure cultural identity and instrumental relationships, through interculturality, memory and post-folklore. March 2025

11 Toru Takemitsu's Rain Spell (1982) An analysis of Rain Spell: Takemitsu's blend of Eastern aesthetics and Western avant-garde technique for flute, clarinet, piano, harp and vibraphone. March 2025