Ipek Gorgun ( tr, İpek Görgün) is a Turkish experimental musician who has been associated with the

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. She has opened for the

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and collaborated with Egyptrixx, Ryoji Ikeda and Otomo Yoshihide.

Life

Gorgun was born in Ankara. Her first degree was in political science at Bilkent University and she then studied at Galatasaray University, where her master's degree in philosophy looked at the implications of

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's work. In 2014 she attended the

and this led to her playing with the Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda and the Japanese composer Otomo Yoshihide. She was is (in 2018) studying for a doctorate in Sonic Arts at Istanbul Technical University. She worked for a decade singing and playing the bass for other bands. Her debut album, ''Aphelion'', was released in 2016. In 2017 she was featured on an album with David Psutka, who normally takes the name Egyptrixx. For this collaborative release he called himself Ceramic TL and their eight-track album was ''Perfect Lung''. She went on to play for

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's Open Ear and she played her electronic adaption of Stravinsky's ballet '' The Firebird'' as a prelude to the

's Oggimusica Acousmonium. In 2018 her second album, ''Ecce Homo'', was released by Touch. Her first album had been self published but Touch had quickly became a publisher and distributor. She was again playing with the Red Bull Academy, playing at Berlin’s Dystopie Sound Art Festival and preparing an exhibition of her photography. In 2022 her music was performed at the Union Chapel on the opening night of "Organ Reframed". The

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played her music and that of Anna von Hausswolff,

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and Gorgun.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorgun, Ipek Living people Musicians from Ankara 21st-century Turkish women musicians Bilkent University alumni Galatasaray University alumni Istanbul Technical University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)