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Watch Hans Tutschku’s “Winternacht”

Hi Everyone,

if you missed the HYDRA concert on December 11, here you can watch the video of our performance (with Sam Solomon on percussion). Even if this video cannot capture the effect of the electronics with 32 loudspeakers I guess it will still stimulate your appetite for the next HYDRA series. I hope you enjoy the video of Winternacht as much as we enjoyed performing it! Let us know what you think!

Best,
Seda

Listen online: Seda’s performance of Yayalar’s “In the temporal gardens”

For those of you who couldn’t make it to the last HGNM concert (and of course for those who would like to listen to the piece once again!), I just finished uploading my live recording of Tolga Yayalar’s In the temporal gardens. Enjoy! And please do let me know if you have any comments (you can use the comment form below).

<a href="http://music.sedaroeder.com/track/tolga-yayalar-in-the-temporal-gardens">Tolga Yayalar: In the Temporal Gardens by Seda Röder</a>

You can also check out the pre-concert podcast that Tolga and I produced for this performance. It contains a lot of background information and some suggestions on how to approach the listening experience!

About the composition

In the temporal gardens was written for and is dedicated to Seda Röder. This piece, which takes its title from a poem by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, explores Bergson’s idea of material and intuition by reflecting two contrasting experiences of reality. In the piece, this dichotomy manifests itself in various ways and constitutes the backdrop of a dialectic unfolding. The composition is really about the dialectic relationship between various musical layers which are spread throughout the piece both vertically and horizontally.”
– Tolga Yayalar

“A extended work of ferocious difficulty”
– Drew Massey, amusicology

About the composer

tolga02A native of Istanbul, Tolga Yayalar studied Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music. He is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University. He has studied with Bernard Rands, Harrison Birtwistle, Joshua Fineberg, Brian Ferneyhough, and Helmut Lachenmann.

For more information visit Tolga’s website.

MP3s of Seda’s recording on iTunes, rhapsody, and CDBaby

Good news for all of you ipod users out there! As of today you can buy mp3s of Seda’s album at:

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Enjoy the music!

Interview with Acik Radyo now online

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As we have already mentioned, in early January Seda was featured on Acik Radyo, Turkey’s most-renowned independent radio station. During the show “Farazi – Hypothetical,” which is hosted by Yaprak Melike Uyar, Seda talked about her new album “Mozart.Brahms.Berg“, the contemporary music scene in Turkey, as well as her upcoming projects. For those of you who had to miss the live broadcast we just finished uploading a recording of the show.

<a href="http://music.sedaroeder.com/album/seda-r-der-a-k-radyo">Interview with Acik Radyo &#8211; Part 1 by Seda Röder</a>

Press the play button to listen to the show

Debut album now available on CD Baby and Amazon.com

Good news! As of today my debut album “Mozart.Brahms.Berg” is available for purchase from CD Baby, one of the largest independent record stores in the US:

SEDA RÖDER: Mozart.Brahms.Berg

You can listen to excerpts of the recording at the CD Baby site. Longer excerpts are available on http://www.sedaroeder.com as well as http://www.mozartbrahmsberg.com.

In addition the CD is available from Amazon.com

If you like the music, please share your thoughts with others and write a review for my album at the CD Baby website!

I would be very happy to hear back from you!

Enjoy!
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