Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective, a neighborhood collective that includes artists who have been producing and living in Alsancak, Umurbey district of Izmir for 6 years, Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company LU Records and Izmir’s subcultural music collective Apeiron.
Sounds of Darağaç is an auditory memory project documenting the sounds that is produced by the dynamic and cosmopolitan lifestyle in a small auto industrial zone, surrounded by the neighborhood's daily hustle and bustle in it’s narrow streets. A sound library was created that includes the sounds of the shopkeepers and their shops such as the oil shop, the car painter, the tea shop, the betting dealer, the meatball shop, motorbike shop as well as the absurd sounds that randomly echo in the neighborhood.
In the first broadcast of the 'Sounds of Darağaç' series, Da Poet and Kayra from 90BPM, Aleksandir and Emre Can Swim from Artesian Sounds were the guests of the project with the songs they produced using the sounds in this library, which consists of recordings of daily sounds in the neighborhood.
Da Poet, Kayra, Aleksandir and Emre Can Swim turn the auditory memory of the neighborhood into an auditory experience with their own songs produced by using the sounds in this library.
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released April 1, 2021
Team / Ekip:
Ali Cem Doğan, Ali Kanal, Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç, Altay Ozankan, Ayşegül Doğan, Betal Özay, Can Çetin, Cenkhan Aksoy, Emre Can Bulut, Fatih Altan, Şükrü Koçer ve Darağaç Ahalisi
Production / Prodüksiyon:
Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç, Da Poet, Kayra, Emre Can Swim, Aleksandir
Design / Tasarım:
Ali Cem Doğan, Can Çetin, Cenkhan Aksoy, Şükrü Koçer
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