Ipek Gorgun
Ecce Homo
Release Date: Sep 7, 2018
Genre(s): Electronic
Record label: Touch
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Album Review: Ecce Homo by Ipek Gorgun
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
In the Christian New Testament, when Pontius Pilate presents Jesus Christ to a mocking crowd just prior to his crucifixion, he utters the words "Ecce homo" ("Behold the man"). Throughout the ages, an endless list of artists and intellectuals have turned to the scene and Pilate's words to interpret its complicated depiction of human judgment and understanding, and on her sophomore follow-up to 2016's Aphelion, Istanbul composer Ipek Gorgun invokes the phrase as a means to plumb "the lighter and darker shades of the human psyche, behaviour and ….
Based on rating 3.9/5
We're often drawn to ambient music for its fluidity. Compositional guidelines can be broken down to create soundscapes in which the listener is able to detach from ordinary understandings of space and time. As a Ph.D student in Sonic Arts at Istanbul Technical University, Ipek Gorgun is intimately familiar with this phenomenon. "I enjoy hearing sonic components that open up to new temporal dimensions," the sound artist, poet, and photographer once said.
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