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Kubilay Uner

About Me

Last year, 94 filmmakers from all over the world shot films to the tracks from the CD CINEMATIC. Winners and highlights were screened at a special film culture event,sponsored by the Sundance Institute Film Music Program, at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Here are a few:

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ALL 94 FILMS

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/01/2006
Band Website: www.kubilayuner.com
Band Members:

Written and performed by Kubilay Uner

Special guest performances by:

Erika Walczak: Violin, Viola

Kristin Olson: Oboe, Oboe d'Amore, English Horn

Fjaere Nilssen: Vocals

Lorenzo Trujillo: Trumpet, Flugelhorn

and

Michael 'Mike' Lang: Piano


Influences: Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Carter Burwell, Maria Schneider, Angelo Badalamente, Thomas Newman, Carl Orff, Leonard Bernstein, Javanese Gamelan, Early Western Music (you know, medieval and renaissance music, from Perotin to Praetorius), C.Ph.E. Bach, G.F. Haendel, Heiner Goebbels, Thomas Ades, Japanese traditional music, the photography of Gregory Crewdson, Cindy Sherman and David LaChappelle, the films by David Lynch and David Cronenberg, the art of Alexis Smith, David Hockney, Edward Hopper and Max Ernst, and of course my composition teachers: Johannes Fritsch, Luigi Nono and Mort Subotnick...
Sounds Like: The bastard love child of Thomas Newman, Dirty Three, Carter Burwell, Javanese Gamelan, Angelo Badalamente, Sigur Ros (without the vocals), kabuki music, Carl Orff...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

FREE downloads from upcoming CINEMATIC 2

Since it's taking a bit longer than I thought to get CINEMATIC 2 finished, I'm offering two tracks as 'preview downloads':BORDERLANDS - HIC SUNT LEONES, and LOT C.They're playing in the MySpace player...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 21:56:00 GMT

BBC spins Cinematic, WUSC includes it in Best of 2006

The BBC RADIO 3 played a track from my CD CINEMATIC on Fiona Talkington's adventurous and eclectic 'LATE JUNCTION' program. And in great company - Thomas Mapfumo, Kronos Quartet, John Cage... nice! Th...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:57:00 GMT

KCRW in Santa Monica adds Cinematic

Just found this out today: KCRW has added Cinematic to their library. Those of you familiar with the LA radio landscape know, this is pretty damn sweet...So I'm stoked.
Posted by on Wed, 10 May 2006 20:50:00 GMT