BASAK GÜNAK // AH! KOSMOS
Booking Agent : Federico Zanatta & Marco Portello
Başak Günak is a sound artist and composer, internationally known as AH! KOSMOS in the field of electronic music. Her work includes sound art, performance, sound installation, composition for theater & contemporary dance. She released two solo LPs from Compost Records & Denovali Records, two collaborative LPs with numerous EPs. Her album ‘Beautiful Swamp’ listed as Best Albums of 2018 by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and ‘Bluets’ was selected by Byte.FM as Best Albums of 2022.
Both timeless and otherworldly, Günak’s work unconsciously defies being tied to a genre, tapping into something beyond an immediate surrounding or experience to communicate something more transcendental. Günak uses test equipment, acoustic instruments and found
sounds to build a mystical world of modulation into which one can sink and be carried away.
In addition to her musical compositions with AH! KOSMOS, Günak pursues her sound experimentations as a sound artist, composing soundscapes for theatre, contemporary dance, film and visual art projects, and realising site-specific performances. Her works have been featured worldwide in several festivals and institutions, such as Barbican Theatre (UK), Martin-Gropius Bau(DE), Royal Theater Carré (NL), Sonar Festival (SP), Berlin CTM Festival (DE), Rotterdamse Schouwburg (NL) and Prague Quadrennial (CZ). In 2020, she presented her latest solo sound installation THE WELL, a piece for 11 speakers and performance in VKV Museum Istanbul.
Recently, she has done composition for Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin State Museums, Kunstmuseum Basel, Your Data Mirror which was awarded for 2 Webby Awards in Activism. She is invited to residencies in Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, HELLERAU Center For European Arts and to Bijloke Academy to realize her piece in hybrid format “Flesh is a flesh is a flesh”.