⭒elif gülin soğuksu ⭒
Elif Gülin Soğuksu is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist, performer, and researcher born in Istanbul and currently based in Berlin. She holds her bachelor’s degree in composition and audio technology at Istanbul Bilgi University Music (TR) and obtained her master’s degree at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague (NL). Elif draws inspiration from the fugitive behavior and cross-modality of imagination in sound; her compositional practice grounds on catching the sounds of the mind. She researches essentially on the human voice as a potent force in the formation of mentally produced sounds through the polyphony of theoretical and practical frameworks. Her electroacoustic pieces and live performances bridge algorithmic approaches, including voice-driven live electronics and creative coding, digital processing, acousmatic music, and spatial sound. She traces the peripheries of sensorial and perceptual currencies of voice, auditory hallucinations, and the tactile nature of sound.
She released her debut EP Unapologetic Testimonies on Søvn Records in July 2024 and released other music on Riforma, and MIC Lithuania labels. She works as a sound designer for multidisciplinary projects and as a sound engineer and technician for live concerts. During the pandemic, she co-founded the international all womxn collective It’s Us: Ophelia. They created their debut project; a digital theater experience; So, Count Mine and premiered in December 2020. Her recent and upcoming residencies include *Topia Festival (DE), Kintai.Kitaip (LT), Sound Topographies GMEA Albi (FR), Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm (SE), NOPA sonic arts festival in Yerevan (AM) among others. She is working for Subtext Recordings with James Ginzburg and had internships previously at MONOM, spæsLab, Errant Sound in Berlin. She is affiliated as a curatorial partner for the Listening Biennial in Istanbul.
RESUME
Elif Gülin Soğuksu
Berlin/Istanbul
Language: English, Turkish
EDUCATION
2022-2024 MA, Institute of Sonology The Hague (NL)
2017-2022 BA, Istanbul Bilgi University Music (TR)
EMPLOYMENT
2023-2024 Sound technician and engineer, Electronics Workshop Royal Conservatoire The Hague (NL)
RESIDENCIES
2025 NOPA Festival, Yerevan (AM)
2025 Elektronmusikstudion EMS residency, Stockholm (SE)
2025 Micro-residency Topographies Sonores, Tekhne, GME A, Albi (FR) January
2024 Kintai Arts sound art residency, Kintai (LT) August
2021 * Topia sound art festival, Berlin/Istanbul (DE/ TR)
2021 SomaRumor II Latin American Sound Art Encounter
INTERNSHIPS
2025 MONOM, Berlin (DE)
2024 Subtext Recordings, Berlin (DE) current
2022 spæs Lab for spatial aesthetics in sound, Berlin (DE)
2021 Errant Sound, Berlin (DE)
ALBUMS / RELEASES
2025 I am Frankie, and you still love me. 2025
2024 in the perpetual circle, MIC Lithuania Label, December
2024 Unapologetic Testimonies, EP/ Tape, Søvn Records, August
2024 Rework, collaboration with Giulia Rae, Riforma Label, March
2024 I would feel nausea in my ears, Nina Hub Turkey, Nina Protocol, December
2023 peep-hole, compilation, antilounge Records
SOUND ENGINEERING/AUDIO TECHNOLOGIES
2025 Stage-hand, silent green (DE), current
2025 Sound Technician, Braille Satellite Festival (LT), July
2024 FoH engineer, Grazuole Smegduobe Festival (LT), July
2024 FoH engineer, On Air On Site Experimental Radio Festival (NL), May
2023 Sound engineer, Studio LOOS, The Hague (NL)
2023 FoH engineer, Sonology Graduation Concert, The Hague (NL), June
2021 Podcast sound editor, AHALI conversations, Istanbul (TR)
2020 Studio assistant, Bilgi Music Studios, Istanbul (TR)
AFFILIATIONS / COLLABORATIONS
2025 Sound designer, performer, White Gold, Rubber Fever, Hošek Contemporary (DE)
2025 Co-curator, The Listening Biennial, Istanbul (TR), ongoing
2025 Sound design for speaking sinkhole in collaboration with Merve Ünsal, part of Heroism is Botulism expo at Atelie397, Sao Paulo (BR)
2025 Sound design for solo exhibition, Das Leben Am Haverkamp, Den Haag (NL) 23.05-15.06
2024 Sound designer, MACBETH experimental theatre, Void the Movement, Istanbul (TR)
2023 Performer, Cross Adaptive Ensemble, Institute of Sonology (NL)
2023 Co-curator, The Listening Biennial, Müze Gazhane, Istanbul (TR), August
2022 Sound designer, Downside w/Steffi Weismann, for Villa Aurora, Silent Green, April (DE)
2020 Sound designer/Co-founder, international artist-led collective Its Us Ophelia
2020 Performer, IBULORK (Laptop Orchestra), Istanbul (TR)
2016-2019 Choir singer, Boğaziçi Jazz Choir, Istanbul (TR)