Dear JJ, we will be forever thankful to you and your song. Thanks to you, a queer person won against the genociders in a completely politics-based competition like Eurovision. You are an amazing performer and our hero! 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

9 January 2025, my students' final concert: CRUMBS. They worked so hard for this project and performed successful pieces using materials from George Crumb's Black Angels. I am so proud of them!

Happy new ears, everyone! (If you haven't received your new ears yet, listening to John Cage's Songbooks could speed up the process maybe) 🎄👂🏻

This Saturday I will be talking about music traditions in Japanese history and Shamisen's women empowering role. But the department I lecture is full of luthiers so I practically learned about 68 stages of shamisen-making. I feel empowered.

Y'all ain't ready for this conversation but killing people to steal their homes is wrong...oh wait y'all are so ready that even mentioning it is embarrassing.
#freepalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

This is one of the main topics of my text-sound based piece, Civilians. Even though it's one year later, I'm glad to see that this issue is pointed on. Here is the essay:
www.instagram.com/p/DC2aJOkNcV...

And here is my track:
gulceozengurkan.bandcamp.com/track/civili...

This is amazing! So creative!
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November 20th, Children's Day huh... What about Palestinian children, who were bombed, burned, torn apart, lost body parts, buried their parents and friends? Israeli government and military forces are monsters. But not imaginary ones under the bed. THEY ARE REAL.

www.instagram.com/p/DCmcXG1uhe...

And this changes everything.
We will become apathetic to so many human and non-human rights violations because of this new normal.

Let me explain why we need to raise our voice for #Palestine, through a musical example. Have you heard of Chile's Nueva Canción before? It's the musical movement that saved Chile's history from Pinochet who attempted to rewrite a massacre and human hunt as "Golden Exile."
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Children are NOT terrorists.
Children are NOT nationalists.
They simply need to belong. They simply don't want to die.
#freepalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Ever since the genocide got accelerated on October 2023 and goes on before our eyes, I feel half dead. Whenever I feel some joy, I feel guilty. Whenever I achieve something, I feel guilty. Whenever I complain about getting cold, I feel guilty. Israel also traumatizes the world through this genocide.