Ipek Gorgun () is a Turkish experimental musician who has been associated with the

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. She has opened for the

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and collaborated with

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and

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Life

Gorgun was born in

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. Her first degree was in political science at

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

and she then studied at

Galatasaray University Galatasaray University (, ) is a public university established in Istanbul, Turkey in 1992, following an agreement signed in the presence of President François Mitterrand of France and President Turgut Özal of Turkey during a ceremony at Gala ...

, where her master's degree in philosophy looked at the implications of

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's work. In 2014 she attended the

and this led to her playing with the Japanese sound artist

and the Japanese composer

. She was (in 2018) studying for a doctorate in Sonic Arts at

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. She worked for a decade singing and playing the bass for other bands. Her debut album, ''Aphelion'', was released in 2016. In 2017 she was featured on an album with David Psutka, who normally takes the name

. For this collaborative release he called himself Ceramic TL and their eight-track album was ''Perfect Lung''. She went on to play for

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's Open Ear and she played her electronic adaption of Stravinsky's ballet ''

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'' as a prelude to the

's Oggimusica Acousmonium. In 2018 her second album, ''Ecce Homo'', was released by Touch. Her first album had been self published but Touch had quickly became a publisher and distributor. She was again playing with the Red Bull Academy, playing at Berlin’s Dystopie Sound Art Festival and preparing an exhibition of her photography. In 2022 her music was performed at the Union Chapel on the opening night of "Organ Reframed". The

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played her music and that of

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, Abul Mogard and Gorgun.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorgun, Ipek Living people Musicians from Ankara 21st-century Turkish women musicians Bilkent University alumni Galatasaray University alumni Istanbul Technical University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)