Ömer Kurtuluş

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

Works · 06

AI & Machine Listening

Works built with neural audio synthesis, corpus-based machine listening and interactive agents — RAVE, SoMax 2, FluCoMa.

01 AI What the C*rp*s Lenition An alternation between two exciters that never quite settle into one another — falling water, punctual and ametric, and bowed metal, continuous and without attack — with Somax2 changing what it listens for as they trade places.

02 AI What the C*rp*s Continuant A sustained negotiation between a prepared-guitar corpus and an asymmetrical, darbuka-derived exciter, navigated in real time by Somax2.

03 AI What the C*rp*s False Return A heterogeneous vocal corpus treated as an unstable memory whose responses repeatedly disappear and return in altered form, driven by a dry saxophone solo as live exciter.

04 AI Strata II STRATA II Twelve channels of Istanbul field recordings eroded in real time by three neural models, none of which has ever heard the city. What survives each pass is not the city but what a machine could still carry of it.

05 AI A Room For The Belated Sentences Written for TAK Ensemble at the KEAR Electroacoustic Residency: an ensemble playing alongside a corpus of its own pre-recorded material, navigated live by SoMax 2 and FluCoMa.

06 AI eye | outside | eye A corpus built from Joëlle Léandre's double-bass and voice recordings made for Somax2 at IRCAM, navigated live by SoMax 2 against the performer in the room.