Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder

Premiered by the Talea Ensemble; Eduardo Leandro, conductor.Kav

Yankıları/Echoes of Tinder is written on the occasion of the

twentieth anniversary of the Sivas massacre that took place in the

city of Sivas, Turkey, which targeted thirty-three people, including

some of the prominent intellectuals and artists of the country.
The tragedy is reflected into the music in a multi-dimensional

manner. A linear narrative that is based on the unfolding of the

event co-exists with a non-narrative, purely structural usage of the

signs, metaphors and images related to the tragedy. In a sense, the

piece can be thought as a study of deriving musical material from

extra-musical material.