Ambiguous Standards of Tune: Airs & Orders
Known as a 'hava' in Turkish, an air is the fundamental infrastructure, the tune of a folk song. Airs are defined by their different beats, moods, locality, purpose and representation, and are used across a variety of songs. Here you can listen to the abstraction of 13 airs from Anatolia and compare them with their complementary compositions. Push the buttons to explore how similar and different the same air can be used.
ASI thanks Gökçe Akçelik [RIP] and Selçuk Artut for their artistic and designerly collaboration.
Description: Similar to its use in western music, airs define the rhythmic, melodic and instrumental qualities of Turkish folk songs. It could come in the forms of air ‘hava’, halay, horon, zeybek, hora, semah, kaşık, karşılama with different beats, moods according to their locality, purpose and representation. The crate includes abstracted recordings of various airs as well as a record player and booklet containing technical and ethnological information.
Ingredients: One side of the crate is covered with a rattan. The other side contains a record player with pre-recorded cassettes and visual information.
Contents (in alphabetical order): Bar, Çiftetelli 01, Çiftetelli 02, Deyiş, Halay, Hora, Horon 5/8, Horon 7/8, Karşılama, Kaşık Havası, Teke Zortlatması, Uzun Hava, Zeybek and their complementary compositions.
Airs :
1. Bar
2. Çiftetelli v.01
3. Çiftetelli v.02
4. Deyiş
5. Halay
6. Hora
7. Horon ⅝
8. Horon ⅞
9. Karşılama
10. Kaşık Havası
11. Teke Zortlatması
12. Uzun Hava
13. Zeybek
Airs and Ex[s]amples:
.Bar
Erdal Erzincan w Köroğlu Barı
Hançer Bar
Atabarı
.Çiftetelli 01
Mustafa Kandıralı ve Arkadaşları w Kandıra Çiftetellisi
Esin Engin Orkestrası w Mevlâna
Somalı Mustafa w Kadifeden Kesesi
.Çiftetelli 02
Mustafa Kandıralı w Şen Çiftetelli
Erkin Koray w Feshupanallah
Azize
.Deyiş / Semah
Sabahat Akkiraz w Ey Şahin Bakışlım
Mazhar Fuat Özkan w Ateş-i Aşka
Tekno Müzik 2013
.Halay
Kardeş Türküler w Kara Üzüm Habbesi
Erkin Koray w Züleyha
Halay (düğün)
.Hora
Esin Engin Orkestrası w Kasap Havası
Nevit Kodallı w Telli Turna Süiti
Trakya Hora
.Horon 7/8
Sadık Karadeniz w Humurgan Atlama Horonu
Modern Folk Üçlüsü w Dudilli
Ulvi Cemal Erkin w Köçekçe
.Horon 5/8
Cem Karaca w Askaros Deresi
Patxali Do İbiri
Deli Horon
.Karşılama
Necip Babik w Solo Ağır Karşılama
Eyvah Eyvah w Tekirdağ Karşılama
Replikas w Fakir
.Kaşık Havası
Orhan Gencebay w Hatasız Kul Olmaz
Erkin Koray w Ankara Sokakları
Çetin Akdeniz w Kaşık Havası
.Teke Zortlatması
Hasret Gültekin w Teke Zortlatması
Hasan Bülbül w Teke Zortlatması
Sümer Ezgü w Teke Zortlatması
.Uzun Hava
Muharrem Ertaş w Kalktı Göç Eyledi Avşar Elleri
İbrahim Tatlıses w Her Demet
Hamiyet Yüceses w Makber
.Zeybek
Özer Özel & Derya Türkan w Rast Zeybek (Tamburi Cemil Bey)
Kırıka w Dert Gemisi
İzmir Zeybeği