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The Sound Project is an additional piece of the CreativeChange Arts Project which also intends to draw attention to development issues. It presents 'sounds of life' in minutes. Visitors of the traveling arts exhibition/Participants of the CreativeChange Workshops are not only able to see the artworks created by youth worldwide but also hear. The sounds aim to help the visitor/participant exercise his/her audio perception skills, visualize situations and circumstances, become curious, think, feel...

The young sound artists participated in this project were briefed on the Millennium Development Goals and information on development challenges were provided to inspire the artists expose the content and objectives of the project in their production. The compositions highlight issues such as education, HIV/AIDS and malaria, poverty, women empowerment, infant mortality, and more.

SOUND ARTISTS / COMPOSERS:

- Zeynep Bulut, Age 27, Turkey, Title of her sound production: "Natural Life"

" Through my work, I hope to present a "natural" sound atmosphere where actual sounds mingle with each other, while losing their points of reference. Sound interrupts actual reality via its invisible, enigmatic, cyclical reflections. It encourages another imagery and imagination. I believe that Sound Project will suggest new ways of reading and imagining today's world." Z. Bulut

- Sinan Yener, Age 29, Turkey, Titles of his sound production: (1) - "Fiddling" focuses on education and (2) - "Last Breath" focuses on HIV/AIDs and malaria

- Kerem Aksoy, Age 28, Turkey, Titles and Content of his sound production: (1) - Woman (2) - War

Titles and Content of his sound production: (1) - Woman "Women all around the world who are trapped under the pressures of men need freedom, rights, and happiness. In this composition the position and effects of men in women's life is being identified". (2) - War "Humanity, all the beauty and pure feelings are defeated against the ambitions of war. Everything that grows and develops in years is destroyed in seconds. Those who do not fight just witness, everything is forgotten .. the scars of many loses is left behind".

- Murat Yakin, Age 28, Turkey, (1) - Baby (2) - Rumble

Titles and Content of his sound productions: (1) - Baby "This is a one directional compassion based on a story representation with baby sounds and other sounds accompanying the situations in the story. The story can be considered as the camera zooms to different periods of short life of a baby".

(2) - Rumble "A group of sounds organized to symbolize and scan the poor conditions of a country. Piece starts with the representation of the wilderness and fly sounds which symbolize the appropriate conditions for diseases appear and spread out. Next, diseased breathings of individuals heard with rumble sounds. Rumbling because of hunger, dying because of being unable to heal simple infections even due to lacking medical support, people hopelessly crying out for help... All left behind is the beginning of this wild game".

"The world is not a perfect place to live and it may not be perfect even in the far future, because of the ego of human being. I believe that our biggest problem today is the ego-centricity. There is chance to expand the borders of ego, or at least to stretch it to the "poor conditions in human beings' existence" field.

We see, we smell, we touch, and we learn; but what we hear effects our perception most. 'Homo-sentimentalis' (as Milan Kundera says) was born with music. Today's music technology gives us the opportunity to design arts with real world sounds. Why not combine sounds with musical forms in such a project whose target is the part of the brain creates the 'homo-sentimentalis' which can be the only hope for all times, for both now and future; and perhaps for the very far future? If this sound project makes sense even for one person 'n the world, I think the project reaches its aim." M. Yakin

PROJECT CONCEPT AND MANAGEMENT: Nil Sismanyazici Navaie, Arts for Global Development, Inc.

PROJECT COORDINATORS: Soner Seker and Can Karadogan, ITU / MIAM

PROJECT SUPPORT: As Arts for Global Development, Inc. we greatly appreciate the support of Dr. Pieter Snapper, Director of MIAM, Soner Seker, Can Karadogan, Firat Ertem, and above all the composers for their efforts and contributions. We would like to thank Istanbul Technical University Centre for Advanced Studies in Music for helping this project realize.

Istanbul Technical University Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (ITÜ/ MIAM), was founded in Istanbul/Turkey in 1999 by composer Kamran Ince and violinist Cihat Askin. It offers graduate programs in a wide range of musical fields like composition, sound engineering/design (SED), ethnomusicology, historical musicology, music business and management, music theory, and performance. In conjunction with its acoustically leading studio, MIAM is able to give special emphasis in the fields of sound art and Tonmeister studies.

The sound project is created and conducted on volunteer basis.