Album: Silver Moon. Music for piano, film and theater. Pb Müzik 2018.Mavi Boncuk |
Music: Çiğdem Borucu[1]
Video Footage: Elif Gülen
Editing: Asya Leman
[1] Çigdem Borucu is a Turkish pianist, composer, sound designer and a lecturer. She studied piano at Istanbul University State Conservatory and chamber music at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz. In 1991, she moved to New York to continue her studies.
At the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College (CUNY) she studied piano with Michael Rogers, composition with Noah Creshevsky and electro-acoustic music with George Skip Brunner. Studying music composition was a new beginning in music making and with great supports from her teachers, she learned how to compose, improvise and work with music technology. She received Miriam Gideon and John Cage awards in composition from Brooklyn College where she got her BA and MM degrees. Her compositions were played at various festivals and radio stations in US and South America.
Çigdem Borucu moved to Istanbul in 2001 and taught at Istanbul Bilgi University, İzmir Economy University and Istanbul Sehir University. She has been collaborating with visual artists, theater and film directors since. These collaborative works have been performed at many festivals and exhibitions throughout Europe.
This documentary (...) is an important and pioneering contribution to the historiography of everyday life, a field in which the social imagination, official and formal history remain silent. I emphasize this because as opposed to conventional documentaries, this is a new film based on historical film sequences of people and landscapes, which in their original format comprise "high doses" of orientalism. Istanbul Do/Redo/Undo: waters, streets, faces goes far beyond being a simple experiment in editing and through the re-reading of sequences shot in the past becomes a new and unique film and an invaluable treasure of data in the field of the historiography of everyday life. - Prof. Murat Güvenç.
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