Fulya Uçanok
Fulya Uçanok is an electroacoustic musician, artist-researcher, and pianist; composing and improvising.
Born in Turkey, she studied Eurogenetic classical music piano performance at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, and completed her master’s degree at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MİAM) at the Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). She spent eighteen months in Bali, Indonesia, studying Balinese Gender Wayang music tradition, thanks to a Darmasiswa grant. Upon her return to Istanbul, she completed her doctoral degree on electroacoustic music composition and performance at the Sonic Arts Department of İTÜ MİAM. Her PhD dissertation is titled Towards a Response-able Com-position Practice: Entangling with Humans, More-than-humans and Materials.
She is an active improviser, and her music has been widely played in festivals. She has collaborated on a variety of projects, playing piano, objects and electronics. Her ongoing projects include iKKi Duo, an experimental improvisation duo with cellist Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu; DUNF Duo, an improvisation duo with electroacoustic musician and sound engineer Gökhan Deneç; and Soundinit, an initiative she co-founded with electroacoustic musician Serkan Sevilgen that brings together sound-based practices such as soundwalks, collective listening, and discussion. These shared teaching and learning environments inform her practice socially, culturally, and politically.
Her current interests include response-able sonic practices with humans, more-than-humans, and materials; with a focus on practices with musical instruments as material agents (human-instrument collaborations) within composition and performance.
