KeKeÇa: my playground. “My game friends” gathering together when I make a call. My acquintances and strangers get acquintant with a blink. KeKeÇa: Rythm Your Body (Kendin Kendini Çal). Make your body, your music instrument and play that instrument apart from everyday usage. Play your body with joy and as you wish... Body percussion, body drum, percussion corporelle, körper instrumente, body music...

  
         

 

 Tugay Başar - Timuçin Gürer Duo

Tugay Başar and Timuçin Gürer have been working together since 2002 and giving concerts and performances on the basis of body percussion and body music. They’ve been arranging trainings, workshops and various activities. They make music and rhythm shows with the contribution of audience. They use percussion instruments together with body percussion and call this method “Sesleşmeler-Phonations”: Some of the activities of Tugay Başar and Timuçin Gürer and sometimes with the attendance of Nadire Gürhan are listed below:

Performances of Sesleşmeler-Phonations at 8th İstanbul Bienal (2003); concerts, performances, seminars and workshops at Natural Fests (2004 Winter, 2004 Spring, 2005 Winter); The Day of Rhythm Concert (Body Percussion with Okay Temiz and 80 members of rhythm team, February 2005); Body Percussion workshop and performance with Doug Goodkin (May, 2005); applied seminars named “Rhythm Inside” at İstanbul Music Educators’ Seminars (September 2005 and September 2006); “Mind the Steps” performance at 9th İstanbul Bienal (2005); Body Percussion Performance at 2nd International Orff Schulwerk Symposium (Ankara, December 2005); workshop and performance at IF-İstanbul Film Fest (February, 2006); workshop at Ankara Creative Drama Foundation (March, 2006); workshop and performances at 1st and 2nd Eskişehir Children and Youth Theatre Fests (Together with Urban Theatre in March 2006 and together with Anadolu University School for the Handicapped and Urban Theatre in March 2007); Improvisation Performance at Nesin Foundation 23rd April Fest (Çatalca, 23rd April 2006); Improvisation Closing Performance together with all the participant children, their parents and teachers at TUBITAK Science for Children Magazine 6th Invention Fest (Ankara, June 2006); Improvisation Workshop and joint performance with dancers and musicians under the direction of Le Quan Ninh at TRANSIT ISTANBUL Improvisation Days (June, 2006); workshop with 25 body musicians from 5 different countries under the direction of Keith Terry at Salzburg Orff Institute International Body Percussion Project (4-6 June 2006) and 7th International Orff Schulwerk Symposium closing performance (9th July 2006); “Music with Body Sounds” workshop and performance at 2nd Galata Visibility Project (October, 2006); “Music with Body Sounds” workshop at Istanbul Improvisation Fest (January, 2007); “Body as a Rhythm – Music Instrument” Applied Seminar at Yıldız Teknik University Composite Arts Department (2007); Body Percussion Performance with School for the Handicapped at Anadolu University Spring Fest (May, 2007); workshop at İstanbul University Communication Faculty 4th International Children and Communication Congress (October, 2007); workshop with the students of Anadolu University School for the Handicapped (October 2007 and January 2008); “Every Body Hears / Her Beden Duyar” Performances in Eskisehir Anadolu University (8th January and 23rd May, 2008) and “Every Body Hears / Her Beden Duyar” performances in Pecs-Hungary.       

TUGAY BAŞAR

He graduated from Mimar Sinan University Ethnomusicology Department in 1989. He completed his masters degree at Ethnomusicology Department in 1993. He took his psychodrama coleader certificate in 1997. Since 1997, he has been attending seminars in the fields of music and movement training on the basis of Orff approach. He has been giving music education in kindergardens since 1982. Between 1992 and 1998, he studied on music therapy with different groups such as autistics. Between 2002 and 2007, he gave lessons on music and movement and body percussion in Ayışığı Atölyeleri. He has been preparing performances in the fields of body percussion, music and movement training with children and adults. He’s been working as a consultant at Orff Schulwerk Education and Consultancy Center. He worked with music groups Ezginin Günlüğü, Rönesans, Bezmara, Emin İgüs Grup and Uçan Halı. In the late 2003, he founded body percussion trio KeKeÇa. He was also the music and rhythm director of ‘Aksak İstanbul Hikayeleri’ which was written and directed by Yeşim Özsoy Gülan in 2004-2005. In 2007, together with Timuçin Gürer and in Zekiye Doğan’s leadership, he has founded and still is directing the Anadolu University KeKeÇa Ensemble, comprising 35 university students who are hearing impaired. The ensemble has performed in Pecs, Hungary on May 2008, with the motto ‘Her Beden Duyar/Every Body Hears.

TİMUÇİN GÜRER

He studied engineering but was also involved in folk music, folk dance and theater performances during university years. Currently he works part time for an engineering company where he is one of the partners, as a strategic planning consultant and new business developer. Beginning from the early 80's, he took part in music groups playing the percussions as well as singing. He is still a member of a music group who have released two records and performed in several concerts in domestic and international festivals. Since 2002, he has been working on Body Music with his Tugay Basar who has developed a new approach in the Body Percussion field, which he names as "KeKeÇa". He is assisting Tugay in various workshops, school or company training programs and performances. They are working with disabled and non-disabled children, youngsters and adults of all ages. In the last 2 years they have been working with hearing impaired university students under a project titled "Every Body Hears/Her Beden Duyar". They made several workshops and 3 performances in 2008, one of which took place in Hungary-Pecs. Timuçin Gürer is concentrated on the interface of body music field with music, percussion, improvisation; as well as with theatre and dance. As a body percussionist, he believes every body can join in the music.

  
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