Ufuk Önen   Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Recording Engineer and Filmmaker
Music for Film, and Visual,
Interactive and Other Media
(Selected Works)


Light (TR, 2011, film)

Screened at:
- 4th Annual Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, WA, USA, 2011.
- 7th Annual SoCal International Film Festival, Huntington Beach, California, USA, 2011.
What Is and What Should Be (2009)



Programmed in New Media Fest 2010: SoundLab VII, Cologne, Germany.

Programmed in Zeppelin 2009 Festival: Sounds of Power/Listening to Fear, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain.
Feeding Back Through the Door (2009)

Commissioned by the national programme Vilnius, Lithuania, European Capital of Culture 2009, as part of Talking Doors (2009), interactive art project and sound art installation.

Selected for the Award of "Distinction in the Interactive Arts" category of Prix Ars Electronica 2010.

Jury Recommended Work, 14th Japan Media Arts Festival 2010, Tokyo, Japan.

Honorary mention in Participative Media, Live 2011 Grand Prix, Turku, Finland.
Change (TR, 2008, film)

Screened at Mid Ulster Film Festival, Northern Ireland, 2009.
Change (mp3)
Dogruya Dogru (TR, 2006, TV)

Program ID, ATV.
Dogruya Dogru (mp3)
Turbo (CH/TR, 2005, animation)

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; educational animation/multimedia project.
Children.
Turbo (mp3)
SHCEK (TR, 2005)

Turkish Social Services and Child Protection Agency; nationwide public awareness campaign 2005-2006.
Strings/Orchestral.
Theme A (mp3)
Theme B (mp3)
CG Reel (TR, 2004-2005)

Cem Gül; digital media artist, 2004 and 2005 portfolios.
Distorted Electric Guitars, fast paced loops and some electronic elements.
CG Reel 2005 (mp3)
CG Reel 2004 (mp3)
BBC World Service (United Kingdom, 2004)

Radio spots for BBC World Service's Shubuo Campaign.
Modern sounding pieces.
Theme 1 (mp3)
Theme 2 (mp3)
Cause and Defect (USA, 2004, film)

Screened at Hawaii Digital Independent Film Festival, Hawaii, USA, 2004, and New York Asian American Film Festival, NY, USA, 2005.

Slow theme with loops, strings, piano, and synth pads and sounds.
Cause and Defect Theme (mp3)
Yazu (TR, 2004, multimedia)

Educational multimedia project.
Children.
Yazu Title Theme (mp3)
Yazu Summer (mp3)
Yazu Fall (mp3)
Yazu Winter (mp3)
Yazu Spring (mp3)
BmbTV! (USA, 2004, TR)

Program ID.
Fast paced, heavily distorted electric guitars, hammering drums and lots of weird electronic sounds.
Torture (mp3)
Machine (mp3)
One Wish (USA, 2003, film)

Themes with wide range of musical styles, form contemporary film score moods to some eastern melodies and rock elements.
Main Title Theme (mp3)
Let's Go on With the Play (mp3)
Man of Stars (mp3)
Finale (mp3)
Kim Unutur (TR, 2002, film)

Mixtures of strings & piano pieces with some loops, guitars and other sounds.
Opening Title (mp3)
Lab (mp3)
Back to Lab (mp3)
Last Time, Promise (mp3)
Wake up (mp3)
Closing credits (mp3)

Heaven I Lost (TR, 2002, film)

Slow and dark-ish theme featuring strings and choir.
Heaven I Lost (mp3)
TripOut (TR, 2001, film)

Electronica meets heavy metal.
TripOut Soundtrack (mp3)
Loadrunners (Australia, 2001, film)

Riff-based pieces with distorted guitars, electronic loops, enriched with strings, piano, alittle bit of brass and some more.
Planet Earth (mp3)
Chase Over Sydney (mp3)
2 Parça (TR, 1999, film)

Rather "uncomfortable" and "tense" soundign pieces with strings, percussion and some more.
Fall and the Saw I (mp3)
Fall and the Saw II (mp3)






Sound Design and Mix for Film, and Visual and Interactive Media
(Selected Works)


Light (TR, 2011, film)
Screened at:
- 4th Annual Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, WA, USA, 2011.
- 7th Annual SoCal International Film Festival, Huntington Beach, California, USA, 2011.

Sound design, music recording and mix, and final mix.
Calling the Minstrel (Canada, 2009, film)

Vancouver 2010: XXI Olympic Winter Games official selection.

Screened at Atlanta film Festival, USA, 2010.

Sound design, music recording and mix, and final mix.
Mustafa (TR, 2008, film)

Screened at:
- Nurnberg Film Fest, Germany, 2008.
- Berlin Turkish Film Week, Germany, 2008.
- ACORT, 6eme Semaine du Cinema Turc, France, 2008.
- Deutsch-Turkische Filmtage, Germany, 2008.
- Semaine Turque a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France, France, 2008.

Sound design and voice-over recording.
Paper Plane (Germany, 2008, film)

Screened at:
- Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2009.
- Detmold International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2009.
- !f Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.

Sound design.
Dore Giderken (TR, 2008, film)

Screened at:
- Kan Film Festival, Poland, 2009.
- Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey, 2009.
- !f Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.
- Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey, 2009.

Sound mix.
Butterflies Under the Rainbow (TR, 2008, film)

Screened at Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.

Sound design and mix.
The Old Man and the Black Bird (TR, 2008, film)

"Best Film", Sinepark Film Festival, Galatasaray University, 2008.

Screened at:
- Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey, 2008.
- Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey, 2009.
- Yildiz Teknik University Short Film Festival, Istanbul Turkey, 2009.

Sound mix.

Change (TR, 2008, film)
Screened at Mid Ulster Film Festival, Northern Ireland, 2009.

Sound design and final mix.


Producer, Audio Recording Engineer
and
Mixer Discography
(Selected Works)

Özlem Ömür (2011)

Journey with Turkish Composers
Gecegece (2009)

Duymadin mi? (Consultant)
Aaaarrghh (2009)

Aaaarrghh (2009)
Dimness Through Infinity (2004)

Nymph
Aaaarrghh (2004)

Ruhlar Fisildiyor
Deli Gömlegi (2002)

Böyle Buyurdu Berdus
Prestige Quintet (2001-2002)

Live Shows and Studio Sessions
Hazy Hill (2000)

8800
Bayt Gadol (2000)

Clemency
Tayga (1999)

Tayga
Sagansara (1999)

Sagansara
Dimness Through Infinity (1999)

When the Soul Weeps Alone
Hazy Hill (1995)

Torch-in' the North Pole
Hazy Hill (1992)

Fan of Your Fancy
DarkPhase (1991)

End of Lunacy
Hazy Hill (1990)

Murky Bedlam




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