AboutMehmet Ali Şimayli is an individual who works in the intersectional fields of composition, performance, and research.
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Current Works
Modular Works, I May Swim Slowly, Courante...
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multimedia composition
modular synthesizer
record label
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Rubber Commune
Independent label for creative music,
experimental sound practices, and
contemporary sonic art.
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record label
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Deformation Profile -at body temperature-
deformation profile (at body temperature) is a 9'45" electro-acoustic 8-channel piece where instrumental and synthetic sounds are reshaped by AI-generated rhythmic fragments, creating a slow-moving machine whose altered temporality unsettles its original function and identity.
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multichannel composition
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BLANK MIDIBLANK MIDI is a hybrid composition that reimagines the piano through the lens of black midi internet culture, transforming a generative, hyper-saturated MIDI piece into an acoustic performance where the piano becomes a hyper-object—blurring the boundaries between digital excess, instrumental fantasy, and the cultural symbolism of the instrument itself.
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contemporary composition
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Market Saturée
Market Saturée is a hyper-noise-progcore trio from Basel blending metal, free improv, and theatrical performance into site-specific, ever-changing sonic experiences.
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band
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2024-presentThe Dose Makes The PoisonThe Dose Makes The Poison is a Basel-based septet, founded in May 2024. The band aims to establish a contemporary aesthetic in structured-improvised music by integrating elements from diverse fields. The title, derived from the works of the 15th-century alchemist Paracelsus, introduces questions from toxicology into the practice area of compositions and improvisations.
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structured-improvisation
band
improvised music
contemporary composition
jazz
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2024.midst
.midst is a four-minute audio-visual narrative exploring Syria's climate-conflict nexus from 2000 to 2016. Utilizing sonified agricultural datasets and NDVI maps, performers displace audio speakers along an artificial river.
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audio-visual composition
fixed media
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2022Aşık Hicrani, Bayburt ResidencyThe musicology research, commissioned by Baksı Museum and recognized with the Anatolian Awards in Music 2022, explores the works of Muzaffer Sarısözen, a musicologist and arranger who traveled across Anatolia collecting and arranging thousands of folk songs, along with a study on the folk poet Hicrani Baba.Category
artist residency
research
documentary
performance
photography
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2018-2022Portrait and a DreamPortrait and a Dream is a 2018-2022 Istanbul based band and 2021 debut album from drummer Mehmet Ali Simayli.
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album
band
project
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2018-presentFLELK CollectiveFLELK is an improvisation collective that could appear as a duo, a quartet, maybe even a septet due to its boundless collaborative nature.
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collective
improvised music
band
performance
collaboration
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2024-presentDog DaysDog Days is a duo based in Berlin consisting of ilkyaz yağmur özköroğlu and mehmet ali şimayli.
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band
album
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2023-presentDie Tryin’Die Tryin’ is a electroacoustic avant-garde music / performance group consisting of Paul Brauner and Mehmet Ali Simayli.
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band
improvised music
noise
electro-acoustic
performance
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2023-presentBlazed RunnerBlazed Runner is an improvised music trio, formed in 2023 in Basel, Switzerland, by Mehmet Ali Şimayli on turntable, no-input mixing board, and percussion, Paul Pattusch on double bass, and Eren O’Neil Şimşek on electric guitar and cümbüş.
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band
improvised music
turntable
no-input-mixing
project
album
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04–27–24P.İÇ & Gariband - ŞAMP.İ.Ç and Gariband are part of an ongoing collaboration between rapper Şam and producer Simayli, spanning both studio and live performance projects.
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production
hip-hop
rap
performance
collaboration
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