Creative improvised music at Bantha Tea Bar! Usually ad hoc groupings of folks who attend Open Improvisation Lab. This month, a couple folks who are on the road.
February 9th, 7p at Bantha Tea Bar.
$10-15 suggested donation
No one turned away for lack of funds!
Ipek Eginli - Piano / Modular Synth
[Atlanta/New York/Istanbul]
ipekeginli.com
A native of Turkey, Ipek Eginli is an experimental electroacoustic sound artist and improviser who describes her music-making as “a process of a creation and a creation of a process”. Her ever-evolving creative process involves electroacoustic improvisation on piano, voice, and modular synthesizers.
Her electroacoustic solo debut album ‘Field Recording in a Black Hole’ from WeirdCry
Records and a live improvised duet album ‘Explorers’ with cellist Daniel Levin from
EyesAndEars Records were released in the summer of 2024, coinciding with her
invitation to perform at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival and her solo
northeast US tour. Following her midwest tour, Eginli is now in the process of recording
her third album with Purplish Records to be released in February 2025.
In 2023, Ipek was awarded a residency at the Westben Centre for Connection & Creativity in Canada and also received the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab grant from the Alliance Theater as the lead artist for the multimedia project “Hold on To Your Names,”. As a contemporary classical music pianist, she has performed solo, chamber and orchestra concerts at various venues in Turkey, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada and in many cities in the US including New York, Boston, San Francisco and Atlanta for over two decades. Ipek is the founder and director of a piano academy in north Atlanta and holds a doctoral degree in piano performance from the University of Georgia.
//////
Stephan Haluska - Harp & Electronics
stephanhaluska.wordpress.com/
Cleveland-based improviser, harpist, and composer, Stephan Haluska (he/they) draws from the instrument’s unique textural, percussive, physical, and kinetic qualities. Viewing the harp as a frequently misunderstood and underrepresented instrument in contemporary music, he often rejects conventional modes of playing in favor of finding new ways to expand his sound palette. Stephan plays with an advanced vocabulary of extended techniques and preparations, which explore the use of various tools, materials, gadgetry, and household objects, interweaving elements of found sound, collage, sound art, and movement into his artistic practice.
Since 2021, Stephan leads Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) as Managing Director. CUSP is dedicated to strengthening the artistic engagement of the Northeast Ohio community by championing the creation and performance of new and experimental music through concert programming and other events.
Stephan is on faculty at Case Western Reserve University as Part-Time Lecturer in the music department, teaching music technology. Stephan holds an MFA in Harp Performance with a concentration in Improvisation from Mills College in Oakland, California where he studied with Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, and James Fei, and studied with Elainie Lillios and Mikel Kuehn at Bowling Green State University, where he received a BA in Music Composition and Theory.