In 2014, Turkish sound artist Ipek Gorgun came to the Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo as a participant, and stunned us into submission with her powerful soundscapes. Before she came to the Academy, she’d been working across the arts in her native Istanbul: playing bass and singing in avant-garde rock bands, programming for electroacoustic projects and performing live solo shows at opera halls and composing soundtracks (most notably for 2012’s *Yok Anasinin Soyadi*, which portrays the Turkish women’s struggle to keep their original surnames after marriage). In early 2016 she self-released *Aphelion*, a 7-track solo album focused on ambient and electroacoustic experimentations, which was re-issued on the Touch label later in the year. As well as writing, recording and performing music, Ipek Gorgun writes poetry for contemporary Turkish journals like *Yumusakge* and *Tenedos*, is an award-winning street photographer and is currently a Ph.
