Sinan Samanlı
Composition | Computer Music
AGENDA
July-September 2025 | Artist-in-Residence at the Academy of Arts Berlin as part of the Junge Akademie Program |
June 2025 | Premiere of Sign Language for voice, piano and electronics |
| 12. 05. 25 | Premiere of Pattern Hacks I at Minoritensaal, Graz, by Ensemble Zeitfluss under the direction of Edo Micic. |
| 09. 05. 25 | Premiere of Uhrenstellmusik VI for voice, bass flute and electronics, at KULTUM Graz by Helena Sorokina(alto) and Sinan Samanli(sound direction) as part of the Crosstalks project. |
| 29. 01. 25 | Premiere of Alive at Theater am Lend, Graz, by Sinan Samanli and Schallfeld Ensemble. |
| 11. 01. 25 | Usturlab, minciospace, Vienna, retake of the Between ECHOS Project |
| 09. 01. 25 | Premiere of Usturlab at the Priesterseminar Graz by Dimitri Psonis and Between Feathers Ensemble as part of the Between ECHOS Project |
MUSIC
Patterns for Hayy, for 5 Instruments, Live Electronics and Video (2024)
Flickering Before a Still Flame, fixed Audiovisual (2022)[excerpt]
Three Constitutions, for 4 Voices and Oud (2018)
ABOUT
Guided by the principles of Bergsonian intuition as a way of sensing time and form, Sinan Samanlı’s artistic journey has led him deep into the world of musical algorithms which he engages with across a broad spectrum of approaches. These span from methods anchored in the tactile act of writing music by hand to more technologically driven processes such as live-coding pattern manipulations applied not in performance but as a compositional tool.
At the heart of Sinan Samanlı’s artistic statement lies a form of resistance to the digital revolution; A refusal to compromise creative agency to the expanding reach of big tech in the arts, while equally rejecting the allure of fully retreating into nostalgic acoustic sanctuaries scattered like oases across vast deserts of digital sand. Rather than merely translating digital aesthetics into conventional notation, Samanli aims to push the boundaries of what composition can mean in a digitally informed era, exploring how the convergence of informatics and classical music can reshape compositional thought and extend the instrumental, formal, and harmonic dimensions of ensemble writing.
