commissioned

The PMS Project (2023) Sound design and music for short animations

The PMS project is an attempt to create a dialogue on the premenstrual syndrome that has been declared "taboo" or "unreal" for years. In collaboration with GIPHY Arts, PMS multi-episode series (01· taboos, 02· bodily changes, 03· mood swings, 04· in harmony) touches upon different aspects of the PMS by featuring 12 artists around the world.

Project Team: Meltem Sahin - artist, project manager, Evrim Karacan - coordination, communication, Mert Kocadayı - sound designer

Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Activism (2022) Music for video+performance

''I listened to the recent history of LGBTI+ struggle in Diyarbakır from activists, researchers, and artists in the city. I discovered Kurdish literature with the books of Mehmed Uzun and Baki Kosar.I wrote essays and stories inspired by these conversations, my romantic escapades, and my reading. I wandered around Diyarbakır like a long-term tourist and photographed the city with my Sony DSC-HX350 camera.'' N.Sönmez

Funded by EU's CultureCIVIC: Culture and Arts Support Program.

performed in Istanbul Fringe Festival 2022, Berlin Apartment Project 2023, in various venues of Ankara, Diyarbakir and Mardin

Landscape Study / Tum Sonitu (2022) Music for dance film

A sea of sound invades the room, bringing forth layers and planes of multiple times that struggle to merge and materialise.

Choreographer & dancer: Felix Urbina Alejandre, Music: Mert Kocadayi, Cinematography & editing:Steve Lorenz

Premiered as part of Íslenski Dansflokkurinn 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Birinin acısı Öbürüne Geçmiyor/ The Pain of One Doesn't Bleed into the Other (2021) Sound Design for Exhibition

Meltem Sahin's 3rd solo exhibition in Turkey, "The Pain of One Doesn't Bleed into the Other" was at Istanbul Kıraathane in 2021.

Curated by Meltem Sahin and Elvin Eroglu, with the exhibition design of Evrim Karacan and sound design by Mert Kocadayı, the exhibition focuses on the poem of Birhan Keskin and Aslı Serin about femicide, accompanied by Meltem Sahin's performance, drawings, and installations.

Flow (2016) - Music for animation by Meltem Sahin

This animation is inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s book The Birth of Tragedy, and specifically his ideas on Apollo and Dionysus. Apollo is the God of reason and rationality—of the intellect and thought. Dionysus is the god of the irrational and chaos—of emotions and instincts. Nietzsche establishes his aesthetics theories from the archetypes of Apollo (order) and Dionysus (passion) and offers, specifically that art is based on polarities and tensions rather than delight and imitation. The main character in this animation is a sculptress who travels through Apollonian and Dionysian states.

Wherever the Dionysian prevailed, the Apollonian was checked and destroyed.” F. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy