Interview with Korhan Erel
Korhan @ Stapeltor 2021 by Ingo Bogardts Korhan Erel (no pronoun or they) is a non-binary electronic musician, improviser, composer and sound artist based in Berlin. Erel’s music covers free improvisation, conceptual sound performances, structured and composed pieces, music for contemporary dance, theater and video art. Erel performs solo, duo and group performances with improvisers, jazz musicians, dancers, in ensembles and orchestras. Current projects and bands include Ephemeral Fragments (with Florian Walter and Emily Wittbrodt), Pep Talk (with Ayşe Cansu Tanrıkulu), Only With You (with Eliad Wagner), Les Desaccordeuses (with Anaïs Tuerlinckx and Cedrik Fermont), audiovisual duo with Liudmila Siewerski and Lettow Erel (with Gunnar Lettow). Korhan has had three residencies at STEIM (Center for research & development of instruments & tools for performers) in Amsterdam (2005 & 2011), and was a guest composer at the Electronic Music Studios in Stockholm in January 2011. Ko