BATUR SONMEZ started all his experimental music projects in Istanbul, early 1998. When he founded "Atom Music - Atom Media" in 1998. He also found an idea for the musical scene in turkey called "Atom Music Movement ". He already has started some own experimental, electronic, noise & audio-visual projects such as Analog Suicide (analog electronic industrial noise music) , Audio (field recordings), Radiophonik (Radiophonic art), Werk (industrial),
Noiseistanbul (field recordings soundscape) ... He released his first CDs from Atom Music label .. He played & organized a lot of live performances in Istanbul. Dadaloop is one of his audio-visual project about Dada art movement. Dadaloop performed first live with turkish multimedia pioneer Teoman Madra in istanbul 2003. Analog Suicide and Mindscan( his another main project that is experimental electronic / sound art) participated Phonem international electronic music festival in istanbul, 2004. He also participated in 23.rd international contemporary artists exhibition in istanbul, 2004 with Mindscan .
In 2005, Analog Suicide was released a split cd with "Kazuya Ishigami a.k.a Daruin" from Japan. One track from Analog Suicide released by "Mothers Against Noise" compilation series. Now , BTR (a.k.a Batur Sonmez) "The blue code waveform" track on Beyond Ignorance And Borders compilation cd was released by Syrphe Recs.
Mattin/ Gen 26/ Batur Sonmez 3 way split cd was released by [&] Recs in 2007.
He was on tour in Japan then Russia in 2006 .. After the tours , He founded new label / promoter called TRansmit // audio visual arts.TRansmit started to organize new experimental electronic noise event series called “ Signals From Outside†in istanbul. Past events : Astro, James Plotkin, Fire In The Head, Mattin, Freida Abtan, Error, Eric Boros, Matt Chaumont, Noisejihad, Unique Oil Free Air, F?, etc.TRansmit// Recs released "Analog suicide & Astro - live in tokyo" colloboration cd in December 2006. Then,
"Analog Suicide / Error - live in istanbul" split video was released .
Analog Suicide video was re- released with new cover artworks .
"Analog Suicide / Fire In The Head" split cd was just released by TRansmit//.
More info : www.myspace.com/transmitrecordsAnalog Suicide was on tour in Europe two times in 2007, April (Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Austria) and November-December (Spain, France, Belgium, Germany).Analog Suicide was on tour in Baltic in 2008, May ( Latvia & Lithuania).
more info at tour reports...February- March 2009, I was on tour in Japan. I performed Analog Suicide (in Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hamamatsu & Tokyo ) and Noiseistanbul project (in Hiroshima) . it was successful tour.
Batur Sonmez 's NOISEISTANBUL world premiere performance - berlin , october 2008 . Noiseistanbul is his new field recordings soundscape experimental music project.
Batur Sonmez signals from outside 4 - istanbul, september 2007
Batur & Maurizio Bianchi in Milan, May 2007********************************************************
******" TIME AND SPACE DIED YESTERDAY.
WE ARE ALREADY LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE, FOR WE HAVE ALREADY CREATED ETERNAL, EVER-PRESENT SPEED. "
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