Bulent Arel

Short bio Bulent Arel

Birthday: 1919 in Istanbul, Turkey

Died: 1990 in East Setauket, NY

Active: 1960s - 1980s

Genre: Classical

Period: Contemporary

Full biography Bulent Arel

Bulent Arel was a composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music , born on April 23, 1919, in Istanbul, Turkey. He wrote chamber music, vocal works, and symphonic pieces, including a series of works commissioned in recent years by the Mimi Garrard Dance Company. Arel was educated at the Ankara Conservatory and later moved to Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. He moved to the United States in 1959 and worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where he collaborated with fellow composers such as Luciano Berio and Mario Davidovsky. Arel's compositions have been described as pioneering and innovative, pushing the boundaries of traditional music composition. Some of his notable works include "Electronics I," "Music for a Sacred Service," and "Stereo Electronic Music No. 1." Arel passed away on November 24, 1990, in Stony Brook, New York, at the age of 71.

Compositions featuring Bulent Arel

#	Name	Duration	Genre	Year
1	Stereo Electronic Music for tape, No 2	14:24 min	Electronic/Computer Music	1970
2	Electronic Music No. 1	10:06 min	Electronic/Computer Music	-

Albums featuring Bulent Arel

#	Name album	Year	Music label
1	Electronic Music 1960-1973	2017	Sub Rosa
2	Untitled(CD, Compilation)	2002	Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
3	Bülent Arel & Daria Semegen – Electronic Music For Dance(LP, Album)	1978	Finnadar Records
4	Bulent Arel / Olly Wilson / Robert Stern – For Violin & Piano / Piece For Four / Terezin(LP)	1970	Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
5	Arel / Davidovsky / Ussachevsky – Son Nova 1988 Electronic Music	1963	Son Nova Records
6	Arel / Semegen – Music For String Quartet And Tape / Capriccio For T.V. / Jeux De Quatres / Music For Solo Violin(LP, Album)	-	Opus One

Videos featuring Bulent Arel

Bulent Arel, Daria Semegen, "Electronic Music for Dance" [CP-121]

Here’s a fine set of pieces, each showcasing the Buchla electric music box. Daria Semegen’s harmonic-series-rich “Arc” - composed at SUNY Stonybrook’s electronic music studio, established by mr. Arel in 1971 - at times recalls other era electron

Linear Contrasts - Vladimir Ussachevsky

Performers: Vladimir Ussachevsky, tape

Composition Date: 1958

from: Vladimir Ussachevsky: Electronic And Acoustic Works 1957-1972

New World Records 80654

http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_i

Bülent Arel - Electronic Music No. 1

Electronic Music No. 1 (1960)

The initial sound material of this piece is derived entirely from sine- and square-wave oscillators. It is composed in clearly differentiated sections, each with a carefully limited number of horizontal and vertical patterns

Daria Semegen - Arc

Arc: Music for Dancers, for electronics (1977)

The piece consists of five parts whose themes, tempos, and "orchestrations" are arranged in the shape of an arc (A B C B A). Each section is itself divided into a smaller arc (a b a). After a brief introduct