Gökhan Kirdar
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Gökhan Kırdar, born on June 2, 1970 in Aydın
, is a Turkish
musician and film score
composer
.
He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul
to study architecture in 1988. However, he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack, released in 1993. Then he released two highly successful albums titled "Serseri Mayın" and "Tutunamadım". During this period, his single "Yerine Sevemem" became a hit and even shadowed the name of its creator. He, then, decided to go to İzmir
where he studied musicology
at Dokuz Eylul University.
He established his own music company "Loopus Entertainment" in 1997, and released the first Turkish electronic music
album Trip with under this label. This was a risky move but proved to be efficient, at least for creating a new view for the Turkish audience.
Kırdar composed film scores for movies and TV series which received various awards and became very popular. Meanwhile, he contributes to a Turkish project titled "Self Project" with his work "Tüür" on the synthesis of Turkish musical instruments since 2000 BCE
with electronic music.
After the Marmara earthquake in 1999, he contributed in charity projects for victim children with “Furby 3 Doo” which is released in collaboration with Hasbro Intertoy. This project, designed as a talking robot created in real time with an album, was very interesting for the public attention. The soundtrack for the movie “Namaste”, the winner of 1999 Ankara Film Festival as the best short movie was one of the other projects of him in the same time period. In 2000, Gokhan Kirdar released his first library project “Ethnotronix”. The project was introduced to 14 different countries by Müzikotek and in 2003 it was released as an album too...
The documentary called “Tekfur Palace and Istanbul” which he made soundtrack for won 2002’s Audience Special Award in Istanbul Documentaries Festival. The same year he designed another documentary soundtrack this time for “Aliya”. The work won the Documentary of the Year Award in Documentary Authors Union. Gokhan Kirdar composed the music for the movie “Crude” in 2002. The movie won a lot of prizes including The Best Movie Award in Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2004, he brought together all the music from the movie in an album called “Pleasure” and it was released in Greece, Poland and Lebanon. The song ‘Pleasure’ from the album was also released in a compilation all around the world by EMI...
Gokhan Kirdar has been designing the music for the Turkish TV series “The Valley of The Wolves” since 2002 and he released the soundtrack albums in 2004 as “The Valley of The Wolves Vol.1” and “The Valley of The Wolves Vol.2”. in the same year he signed a contract with English Warner-Chappel company for a new library work project. As being in the spotlight because of his TV soundtrack projects since 2002, he released the music he designed for the series called “June Night” in his January 2005 release “The Rain”...
In November 2004 he completed the work for the movie “Tell Me Istanbul” which was due to release in March 2005. He still designs the soundtrack for the series like “The Valley of The Wolves”, “June Night” and “Foreign Groom”. The album “Don’t Strike Me Over” which also included the music designed for “Foreign Groom” was released on June 2, 2005 in some other European countries as well as in Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey...
In 2004, he was a contributor with his music project titled “Tuur” in ‘Self Project’ held in Luxemburg which also hosted some other Turkish designers. The same project was released July 18, 2005 as an MC/CD/DVD and video film in Turkey and all around Europe. “Tuur” is entitled as a unique piece with a history coming from 15.000 B.C. and based on ancient Asian Turkish music instruments mixed together with electronic and industrial music In the second half of the same year, he prepared the soundtrack of the movie, “The Bath”...
In December 2005, he released the album, “Don't Love Anyone/Best of Generic Vol.1”. This album entitled as the first multi-formatted album ever made for having a very rich visual content. This album has become a very good example of work that he compiled his music that he made for TV serials and films throughout his musical career...
In October 2005, Kirdar started to work on his soundtrack project for The Valley of the Wolves-Iraq, the movie released in Turkey first, then in Europe and the Middle East in February 2006. Receiving good reviews both with its content and music, the film, will be shown at theatres soon in USA, Latin America and Russia. In the album, “Golden Nosering”, a traditional Kirkuk song is very special for being Kirdar’s first and maybe the last folk song performance throughout his musical career...
Lately, Gokhan Kirdar’s music has contributed in a Discovery Channel /America documentary project “Not Your Average Travel Guide/Turkey”, directed by American director Shane Reynolds. Besides he started to create music for new Turkish TV series like “The Bridge” and “Present Tenses” and “Dede Korkut's Stories”...
The new websites for Loopus Entertainment www.loopus.net and www.gokhankirdar.info officially released on June 14, 2007. On these websites you can find all the latest info about Loopus. You can download to pc, listen, watch or download to mobile phones the Loopus content such as albums, videos and concerts in many different formats...
Aydin
Aydın is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of Büyük Menderes River at a commanding position for the region extending from the uplands of the valley down to the seacoast...
, is a Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
musician and film score
Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
.
He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
to study architecture in 1988. However, he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack, released in 1993. Then he released two highly successful albums titled "Serseri Mayın" and "Tutunamadım". During this period, his single "Yerine Sevemem" became a hit and even shadowed the name of its creator. He, then, decided to go to İzmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
where he studied musicology
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
at Dokuz Eylul University.
He established his own music company "Loopus Entertainment" in 1997, and released the first Turkish electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
album Trip with under this label. This was a risky move but proved to be efficient, at least for creating a new view for the Turkish audience.
Kırdar composed film scores for movies and TV series which received various awards and became very popular. Meanwhile, he contributes to a Turkish project titled "Self Project" with his work "Tüür" on the synthesis of Turkish musical instruments since 2000 BCE
Common Era
Common Era ,abbreviated as CE, is an alternative designation for the calendar era originally introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century, traditionally identified with Anno Domini .Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for Before the Common Era Common Era...
with electronic music.
Notable works
Gokhan Kirdar was born in Aydın in 1970. After primary school he lived in İzmir and after been accepted in Yıldız University Architecture Faculty, he moved to İstanbul for good. He released his first album “Floating Mine” in 1994. The album immediately had a great success especially because of the hit single ‘Don't Love Anyone’. In 1995 the second album “I Couldn't Hold On” was released including his first film music project single from 1993, ‘Night Angel and Our Chaps’. Kirdar started his study in 9 Eylül University, Fine Arts Faculty of Musicology in 1997 and in the same year he established his own label and music company Loopus. His 1997 release “Trip” was accepted as the first electronic/triphop album for Turkish modern music...After the Marmara earthquake in 1999, he contributed in charity projects for victim children with “Furby 3 Doo” which is released in collaboration with Hasbro Intertoy. This project, designed as a talking robot created in real time with an album, was very interesting for the public attention. The soundtrack for the movie “Namaste”, the winner of 1999 Ankara Film Festival as the best short movie was one of the other projects of him in the same time period. In 2000, Gokhan Kirdar released his first library project “Ethnotronix”. The project was introduced to 14 different countries by Müzikotek and in 2003 it was released as an album too...
The documentary called “Tekfur Palace and Istanbul” which he made soundtrack for won 2002’s Audience Special Award in Istanbul Documentaries Festival. The same year he designed another documentary soundtrack this time for “Aliya”. The work won the Documentary of the Year Award in Documentary Authors Union. Gokhan Kirdar composed the music for the movie “Crude” in 2002. The movie won a lot of prizes including The Best Movie Award in Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2004, he brought together all the music from the movie in an album called “Pleasure” and it was released in Greece, Poland and Lebanon. The song ‘Pleasure’ from the album was also released in a compilation all around the world by EMI...
Gokhan Kirdar has been designing the music for the Turkish TV series “The Valley of The Wolves” since 2002 and he released the soundtrack albums in 2004 as “The Valley of The Wolves Vol.1” and “The Valley of The Wolves Vol.2”. in the same year he signed a contract with English Warner-Chappel company for a new library work project. As being in the spotlight because of his TV soundtrack projects since 2002, he released the music he designed for the series called “June Night” in his January 2005 release “The Rain”...
In November 2004 he completed the work for the movie “Tell Me Istanbul” which was due to release in March 2005. He still designs the soundtrack for the series like “The Valley of The Wolves”, “June Night” and “Foreign Groom”. The album “Don’t Strike Me Over” which also included the music designed for “Foreign Groom” was released on June 2, 2005 in some other European countries as well as in Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey...
In 2004, he was a contributor with his music project titled “Tuur” in ‘Self Project’ held in Luxemburg which also hosted some other Turkish designers. The same project was released July 18, 2005 as an MC/CD/DVD and video film in Turkey and all around Europe. “Tuur” is entitled as a unique piece with a history coming from 15.000 B.C. and based on ancient Asian Turkish music instruments mixed together with electronic and industrial music In the second half of the same year, he prepared the soundtrack of the movie, “The Bath”...
In December 2005, he released the album, “Don't Love Anyone/Best of Generic Vol.1”. This album entitled as the first multi-formatted album ever made for having a very rich visual content. This album has become a very good example of work that he compiled his music that he made for TV serials and films throughout his musical career...
In October 2005, Kirdar started to work on his soundtrack project for The Valley of the Wolves-Iraq, the movie released in Turkey first, then in Europe and the Middle East in February 2006. Receiving good reviews both with its content and music, the film, will be shown at theatres soon in USA, Latin America and Russia. In the album, “Golden Nosering”, a traditional Kirkuk song is very special for being Kirdar’s first and maybe the last folk song performance throughout his musical career...
Lately, Gokhan Kirdar’s music has contributed in a Discovery Channel /America documentary project “Not Your Average Travel Guide/Turkey”, directed by American director Shane Reynolds. Besides he started to create music for new Turkish TV series like “The Bridge” and “Present Tenses” and “Dede Korkut's Stories”...
The new websites for Loopus Entertainment www.loopus.net and www.gokhankirdar.info officially released on June 14, 2007. On these websites you can find all the latest info about Loopus. You can download to pc, listen, watch or download to mobile phones the Loopus content such as albums, videos and concerts in many different formats...
Soundtracks
- Pleasure (2002)
- Valley of the Wolves Vol.1 (2004)
- Valley of the Wolves Vol.2 (2004)
- The Rain (2005)
- Don’t Strike Me Over (2005)
- Don't Love Anyone/Best of Generic Vol.1 (2006)
- Valley of the Wolves Iraq (2006)
- Valley of the Wolves Vol.3 (2009)
Documantary Works
- Aliya (2002)
- Tekfur Palace and Istanbul (2002)
- Not Your Average Travel Guide (2007)
Contribute Albums
- My Longing (1994 İzel’s album)
- I'm Ready (1995 Candan Erçetin’s album)
- Asya (1996 Asya’s album)
- Silver (1996 Nükhet Duru’s album)
- A Small Story (1999 İzel’s album)
- Innocent (1999 Asya’s album)
- Breathe (2000 Ayşegül Aldinç’s album)
- CNN Turk Musics (2003)