Studio Basan

Studio Basan is the creative web outlet of Berlin based artist Alp Seyrekbasan, whose work spans the intersection of new media, music, and technology. It's an ongoing experiment, a journal, a place to learn, share, fail, recreate, and build again. It documents projects, expresses ideas, while offering a place to exercise web design and front-end web development. It is always open for collaboration, artistic exchange, and skill-sharing.

If you see anything interesting or want to get in touch for collaborative projects, check out the contact section.

I am a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and musician originally from Istanbul and currently living in Berlin. I have a creative practice that spans web, graphic, and sound design, in which I blend these mediums to craft unique experiences.
Under the alias Basan, I produce and perform live electronic music(often in collaboration with visual artists), where I embrace an intuitive, exploratory, and experimental approach to sound. With my work I aim to call on emotions, stimulate the audience, and translate what lies inside to the external world.
Here is the spotify link to my first album: Dalınç
And here is the youtube link to one of my performances: Basan & Antonia

Transit Cadence is an audiovisual performance aimed at reinterpreting the language of the city. It explores the rhythmic nature of the urban space, as well as its phonetic quality. The cyclical nature of everyday life is bound to be repeated again and again, but never quite revealing a specific pattern. It is a combination of moments forever in collision adding new perspectives and variations to the monotonous routines of the metropolis.

Here is the seperate link to Transit Cadence Archive.

Typeface Experiment I is an algorithmic typography project based on a 5x7 grid with a scalable box structure. The idea came first as a creative challenge with the intention of being able to distort and transform basic modular lettter and number shapes. Each letter is represented through the use of a binary matrix, which tells the program to either fill the box or not thus creating the characters form. The ratio and size of each box can be adjusted through the code.

The code can be previewed and edited through this link on p5.js web editor.

New Media Artist Statement Generator was an online tool designed for new media artists and designers looking to enrich their artist statements with the help of artificial intelligence. Users could choose and describe concepts and media, guiding the AI in crafting their personalized text. It aims to work both as a useful tool for creating essential texts for artist statements and a critique against the over-complication of language used within the contemporary art world.
It has been showed as the final project of my Master's Thesis in New Media Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences.

Ecotones was a two-day long workshop aimed at building bridges between mediums of photography and sound. It was led by TimeLab and taught by Alp Seyrekbasan and Daksh Jain, who are designers and musicians working closely with soundscapes. In the workshop attendees brought their own photographs and learnt how to create soundscapes from scratch with DAW tools and field recorders. The results of the workshop have later been exhibited at Catalyst Institute of Creative Arts at Funkhaus.

Here are the three soundscape finals from the workshop on soundcloud: Andreea Cirstina-Mircea
Andrew Conklin
Federico Torres

El Cielo Es Azul is a sonic composition made for the Berlin Moabit Zine's 2024 Open Call under the concept 'Straßenleben'. Two artists Federico Torres, and Alp Seyrekbasan collaborated together to create an immersive soundscape accompanied by a drawing. The composition makes use of field recordings from the city of Berlin. Apart from being part of the Moabit Zine, it has also been feautured in the international Open Call of 'Creating Commutes' organized by Braga 25, Portuguese Capital of Culture.

The composition can be heard from this link.

Performance Anxiety is the collaborative audiovisual performance project of Antonia Angel and Alp Seyrekbasan. Starting as an improvised set at Berlin's Urban Spree for the exhibition titled 'Phenomenal Orchestra' showcasing the artist Makoto Inoue's works, the duo continued to collaborate together and performed in various spaces and events such as AVJam at Motion Lab and Nutopia at Zemin Art Gallery in Berlin.

Bloomscapes is an interactive media performance exploring the journey of the self in an unknown world. Its story unfolds in four chapters, beginning with vulnerability and confusion, and ending in resilience and tranquility. Through sound and image the body traverses different emotional states. It acts and reacts to the media, while at the same time affecting the audiovisual scenery. Improvised elements, which emerge from the interconnectedness of the sonic and visual systems contrast with the choreography and create moments of tension and release. Through the feedback loop between each performer Bloomscapes aims to break the barrier between what is in our control and what is not.

@graphic.basan
@studio.basan

seyrekbasan.alp[at]gmail.com