QUATUOR BOZZINI - PORTRAIT UÇANOK-ERGÜN / SEMAINE DU NEUF

The Bozzini Quartet presents an evening dedicated to the universes of Fulya Uçanok and Cenk Ergün, with a world premiere and a Canadian premiere.

An electroacoustic musician, pianist, improviser, and researcher, Fulya Uçanok centers her work on embodied explorations of listening, performance, and composition. Drawing inspiration from sympoiesis, her artistic practice explores zones of connection within sound-related social interactions. Her new work for quartet and sound processing, resulting from a residency with the quartet, is a commission from the Bozzini Quartet and the New & Newest Festival Arter, with the support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. 

A composer and improviser based in New York, Cenk Ergün creates chamber music works, electronic music, and sound installations. His pieces Sonare and Celare (2016) form a contrasting diptych: the first, virtuosic and obstinate, driven by a hypnotic and repetitive moto perpetuo, evoking the buzzing of a wasps' nest. The second unfolds an airy and refined sound landscape, traversed by microtonal inflections that recall certain Turkish modes as well as resonances of early European music.