Artistic Approach

Critically engaging with the coeval interrelationships of sound, space, and corporeality, my compositional praxis activates architecture, acoustics, and hyper-dimensional geometry to address processes that condition embodied happenings, while also taking account of that which lies beyond enclosure.

Approaching space, sound, and corporeality as simultaneities-in-the-making, my praxis also takes the form of drawing, positioning 3D modeling and design as ways to trace and re-imagine sonic-temporal contours that are rendered in isolation, as erased or virtual. As a drawing-in-relation, which sees virtuality not as the “non-real,” but as a critical mode yielding such traces to emerge and resist the conditions that are imprinted within the “real,” 3D modeling in my works is neither conceived as a means to an end to reconstruct a fixed soundfield within a fixed past, nor is it understood as a geometrical stasis to offer mappings of cross-sectional relationships. 3D modeling, to me, is rather a way to take account of that which may not be visible, but nevertheless becomes present through virtual reach.

Engaging with the virtual to re-imagine what is no longer visible, my compositional praxis is an effort to confront and take account for the conditions of erasure as well as the interrelations transpiring in space before and while the pen touches the paper, a sound is produced, or a speaker is installed. 

Turgut Erçetin, Berlin 2025