15-minute audio-visual live performance at the 2023 WFAE Conference, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL.
This 15-minute audio-visual performance aims to create sonic relationships between Old, New, and Cyber Smyrna. It focuses on past, present, and future relationships between cities and their history.
The founder of New Smyrna, Dr. Andrew Turnbull, gave his spouse’s birthplace, the Ottoman city of Smyrna (modern-day İzmir in Turkey), and named the settlement in honor of his wife's birthplace in the late 1700s. However, İzmir’s (Old Smyrna's) history is deeper than New Smyrna's. İzmir has 8500 years of history since the Neolithic period. Many civilizations were held in İzmir, but Greek and Turkish cultures are still effective today.
This 15-minute audio-visual performance aims to create sonic relationships between Old and New Smyrna. It focuses on past, present, and future relationships between cities and their history. This performance creates virtual connections between cultures. As Turkish and American citizens, Gürkan Maruf Mıhçı and Chad Eby will use field recordings and found sounds from İzmir and New Smyrna to create an acoustic connection between both cities. They will also compose these field recordings with ambient sounds during the improvised performance.
Also, they use visuals (photos and ancient illustrations) and videos from both cities, merging them to create a visual connection between the two cultures. These visuals also reflect the rich history of Old Smyrna and Izmir, so the performance aims to look back at how landscape and soundscape have changed and affected both cities. This performance imagines Smyrna on other planets to project its future. The artificial intelligence algorithm generated cyber Smyrna images. This performance merges the cultures of İzmir, Old Smyrna, and New Smyrna and reimagines the past, present, and future. For Cyber Smyrna, they fed the AI visuals from Old and New Smyrna and Izmir to reimagine the future.
This 15-minute audio-visual performance aims to create sonic relationships between Old, New, and Cyber Smyrna. It focuses on past, present, and future relationships between cities and their history.
The founder of New Smyrna, Dr. Andrew Turnbull, gave his spouse’s birthplace, the Ottoman city of Smyrna (modern-day İzmir in Turkey), and named the settlement in honor of his wife's birthplace in the late 1700s. However, İzmir’s (Old Smyrna's) history is deeper than New Smyrna's. İzmir has 8500 years of history since the Neolithic period. Many civilizations were held in İzmir, but Greek and Turkish cultures are still effective today.
This 15-minute audio-visual performance aims to create sonic relationships between Old and New Smyrna. It focuses on past, present, and future relationships between cities and their history. This performance creates virtual connections between cultures. As Turkish and American citizens, Gürkan Maruf Mıhçı and Chad Eby will use field recordings and found sounds from İzmir and New Smyrna to create an acoustic connection between both cities. They will also compose these field recordings with ambient sounds during the improvised performance.
Also, they use visuals (photos and ancient illustrations) and videos from both cities, merging them to create a visual connection between the two cultures. These visuals also reflect the rich history of Old Smyrna and Izmir, so the performance aims to look back at how landscape and soundscape have changed and affected both cities. This performance imagines Smyrna on other planets to project its future. The artificial intelligence algorithm generated cyber Smyrna images. This performance merges the cultures of İzmir, Old Smyrna, and New Smyrna and reimagines the past, present, and future. For Cyber Smyrna, they fed the AI visuals from Old and New Smyrna and Izmir to reimagine the future.
Old - New - Cyber Smyrna
