HÜMA UTKU

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Watch the music video for the first single ‘Comfort of the Shadows’
by Marco Ciceri

New single “ Ayaz’a ” is out now.


DRACONES
 out now 
on Editions Mego


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		<title>About</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:26:42 +0000</pubDate>

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Hailing from Istanbul, the composer and sound artist Hüma Utku delves into the possibility of how raw sonic textures, electronic experimentation and acoustic composition can be used as means to conduct artistic introspection, sonic expression and conceptual exploration.

Highlighted as ‘a very singular artist’, she fuses field recordings, analog synthesisers and atmospheric ambience; into harmonious noise woven into harsh ritualistic rhythms, as means to utilise sound for storytelling. Combining her self-taught practice of music with her higher education in psychology; Utku's work as a whole draws inspiration from various layers of human condition and the complementary nature of dualities. She primarily engages with musical composition, sound for visuals, performance and installations. Since 2025, Utku runs her own record label and artistic platform, Mercurial Cycles.

In August 2018 Şeb-i Yelda (EP/12'') was released by Karlrecords, which presented Utku (as R.A.N.) with an authentic sound and strong conceptual theme to a wide audience. Following the international success of her EP, she released her debut full-length album Gnosis in July 2019 via the same label. This release gained Utku recognition for her unique approach of creating sonic story plots by merging concepts with experiments in electronic music. 

Her sophomore album, The Psychologist, was released on Editions Mego in May 2022. Loaded with analog synthesisers, string composition, gnarly vocals and a raw artistic force, this album has been cited as ‘Utku's most ambitious, authentic and complex work yet’, in which her academic background and her current practice as a conceptual music composer are intertwined.
Her latest album, Dracones, released on Editions Mego in April 2025, revolved around the theme of motherhood and matrescence and received high regard by the international press and among which her work has been praised for its ‘’Lynchian’’ sonic qualities (taz zeitung)&#38;nbsp; and has been called&#38;nbsp; ‘’innovative for the unpredictability of its sounds and the honesty with which she mediates...Dracones embraces the shadows and the dissonance and is gripping for it‘’ (PopMatters).
On September 2025, Utku launched her experimental music label , Mercurial Cycles,&#38;nbsp; as a platform for sonic arts and interdisciplinary practices.&#38;nbsp; Mercurial Cycles holds a bi-monthly radioshow on the Berlin based Refuge Worldwide.&#38;nbsp;

Since 2016, Utku presented her work and performed across the world; including in Elbphilarmonie, Atonal Berlin ,&#38;nbsp; Le Guess Who?, Hamburger Bahnhof, CTM Festival, Donaufestival, Dark Mofo,&#38;nbsp; Lunchmeat, Kunsthaus Zürich, Sonic Acts, Weltmuseum Vienna, MONOM, Stockholm Royal College of Music, Salon IKSV Istanbul among many other acclaimed music events and cultural institutions. 

Her work has received notable press from platforms such as The Wire, Noisey, RollingStone, Redbull Music, Groove Mag, HHV Mag, A Closer Listen, Gonzo Circus, BantMag, Scene Noise among others, as well as getting broadcasted by seminal radio stations such as BBC Radio 3, ORF, TRT, NTS radio, RAI 3, YLE and Sveriges Radio.

She has received numerous scholarships, residencies and fellowships; including from the Goethe Institut, SHAPE (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe) platform (2021), EMS Stockholm, Submarine Cairo and Musicboard Berlin among others
After 14 years of residing in Berlin, Utku is&#38;nbsp; currently based in the town of Urla in the western coast of Türkiye.AiR + Scholarships 
+ Fellowships

Musicboard Berlin


Received scholarship for the year of 2023
Artist in Residence at Monom
Berlin/DE
17-21 January, 2023

Neustart Kultur 2022
Musikfonds e.V.

Guest Composer at Elektronmusikstudion 2022
Stockholm/SWEDEN
22.11- 12.12. 2022

Neustart Kultur 2021
GEMA Scholarship Program

SHAPE Platform 2021
Platform for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from Europe

Musikfonds Scholarship Program
Scholarship between January - June 2021

Guest Composer at Elektronmusikstudion 2020
Stockholm/SWEDEN

Scholarship by Goethe Institute Sweden

Musicboard Berlin 2019
 Artist in Residence in&#38;nbsp;Tehran/IRAN

in collaboration with Goethe Institut Teheran
Daire Residency Program 2019
Mardin/TURKIYE

K2 Contemporary Art Center
Project by European Union &#38;amp; Republic of Turkey

Amplify 2019Berlin/GERMANY

Amplify Berlin Artist in Residence


Submarine Studio Artist in Residence 
2017, Cairo/ EGYPT


Notable Performances11.11.2023- MIRA Festival, Barcelona/ES
17.08.2023 - Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin/DE

16.06.2023 - Dark MOFO, Hobart/AU
26.05.2023 - Heart of Noise, Innsbruck/AT
12.03.2023 - Eric Ericsonhallen , Stockholm/SE
28.01.2023 - Monom x CTM Festival 2023, Berlin/DE
07.12.2022 - Work presentation at Royal College of Music, Stockholm/SE
22.10.2022 - La Casa&#38;nbsp; Encendida,&#38;nbsp; Madrid/ES08.10.2022 - Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterdam/NL

01.10.2022 - Lunchmeat,&#38;nbsp; Prague/CZ

29.05.2022 - CTM Festival,&#38;nbsp; Berlin/DE22.10.2021 - Insomnia Festival,&#38;nbsp; Tromso/NO
14.10.2021 - Berlin Atonal presents Metabolic Rift, Berlin/DE07.10.2021 - Musikprotokoll, Graz/AU25.09.2021 - Today's Art, The Hague/NL
23.08.2020 - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin/DE
03.05.2019 - Donaufestival 2019, Krems/AU
13.04.2019 - Radialsystem, Berlin/DE
01.11. 2018 - DICE Festival, Berlin/DE
09.03.2018 - Salon IKSV, Istanbul/TR
16.12.2017 - Yukunkun, Beirut/LB
07.12.2017 - El Warsha, Cairo/EG
24.06.2017 - Forte Prenestino, Rome/IT
28.03.2017 - Ausland, Berlin/DE
25.06.2017- Kantine Am Berghain, Berlin/DE
	
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		<title>Works</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>

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SELECTED RELEASES
[CLICK ON TITLES FOR MORE INFORMATION &#38;amp; STREAMING]


DRACONES
2025[LP/DL]
THE PSYCHOLOGIST
2022[LP/DL/CD]


GNOSIS
2019
[LP/DL]


ŞEB-İ YELDA
2018[12’’ EP/DL]

SOUND FOR PICTURE
Pink Ribbon Finland / Roosa NauhaCinematic ad by Jan Sederlöf2025

[music composition]


Disconnected
Short Film by&#38;nbsp;Masa Zia Lenardic &#38;amp; Anja Wutej2018[sound design, music composition]


COMMISSIONED WORKS &#38;amp; SOUND ART PROJECTS
Rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash 


2024[sound design and composition for the performance pieceby Alexis Blake]

RÜYA
2023[installation]

TECUITLATL
in collaboration with Fara Peluso
[installation]
2023

BEARERS OF FALSE GIFTS
2022[performance / installation]


Sounds of X (Berlin)
Video&#38;nbsp; Art by Ali Demirel2022[field-recordist]


UZAK
2021
[performance]


OTHER WORKSre-LEAF (Earthquake Relief for Türkiye and Syria)
[released by Injazero Records and Phantom Limb, 2023]
Curator and contributing artist with the track
‘’Vast Fields of Light’’


Live Dangerously[The Wire Magazine,&#38;nbsp; 2021](Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2021,&#38;nbsp; DL)
Wherein All Things Are Like The Void[released by AREA Z, 2020](Uncanny Valleys Vol. II, DL)


Struggle For Pleasure[released by&#38;nbsp;InFiné, 2019](INLAND Reworks by Vanessa Wagner, DL)
 

She Walks/That Sword [released by Forward UK, 2019](These Are Our Friends V/A, DL)

No Crystal Ocean[released by Deep Electronics, 2017]
(Deep Diversity Vol.5, CD/DL)
What Hath Night To Do With Sleep?

[released by In The Void, 2015](In The Void V/A, CD/DL)

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