Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç is an award-winning multi-genre composer, producer, and music supervisor. He is the composer of Sarmaşık and Butterflies, two films that participated at the Sundance Film Festival where Butterfly won the Grand Jury Prize. He has worked on over twenty feature films and has a repertoire of eleven albums. Several of the movies Bilgiç worked for as a music supervisor were official entries at prestigious film festivals such as Tribeca, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Palm Spring, Galway Film Fleadh, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Stockholm, as well as Maine Int. Festival. He most recently completed scoring the short film Leylak, which has been enthusiastically received within the film festival circuit winning Best Short at the Tribeca Film Festival (2021) and Galway Film Fleadh (2021). In addition to that, he is one of the executive producers of the short. His upcoming projects include a highly anticipated TV series produced by Netflix.
Bilgiç differentiates himself by being a versatile composer with a wide identity within music and the visual arts. What sets him apart is his musical talent which encompasses a wide range of different musical genres. In 2000 he founded Gevende, a leading band of avant-garde world music from Turkey. The band recorded five albums and was invited to perform at a variety of festivals around the world; Brazil, Norway, Portugal, Netherland, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Denmark, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, to name a few. Inspired by the voices of languages from different geographical regions, Bilgiç wrote songs inspired by these languages, creating his own in the process. He was dubbed a “storyteller” of non-existing language. Furthermore, Gevende’s work includes the composition of the music for the video game Monochroma. His trajectory began in 2005 while Bilgiç was studying economics at Eskisehir University where he started to compose music and work on sound design for animations. Following his passion, he won the Golden Tulip Best Music Award at the 30th International Istanbul Film Festival in 2011 for his first feature film Atlikarinca (Merry Go Round). He also worked for international features, his latest movie is the independent American film Draupadi Unleashed, which premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival and was screened at AMC Theatres in the USA. For this movie, he combined the mystical motifs of Eastern music with the classical harmony of Western music. Furthermore, in 2019 he was awarded the Best Creative Innovation in Sound award at the U.K. Theatre & Technology Awards for the sound design and music of the British production Substratum Live Dance & Mapping, which he composed and produced with Serkan E. Çiftçi. The project was also awarded the Best Live Production in European Mapping Awards organized in Lille, France.
The resourceful musician has also worked as a composer-vocalist for the largest music company in Turkey called “Jinglehouse”. He was a jury member at the 23rd Tallinn Black Night Film Festival and the 39th Istanbul Film Festival is a board member at MSG, the association for composers in Turkey, and founded his record label, LU Records, in 2018. LU Records focuses on music composed and designed for cinema and visual arts. Over twenty projects were published thus far. The company also organized events and talks focusing on cinema and music. For the last two years, LU Records has been sponsoring the Best Music Award at the Istanbul Film Festival.Bilgiç is also interested in other visual art disciplines, which gives him an extensive knowledge of music. He has composed for theater and various dance performances of Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası, Turkey’s innovative modern dance association. He accompanied them with his live improvisations. photo by Nazli Erdemirel
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FILMOGRAPGHY
2021 Yakamoz S-245 TUR Netflix Series, Composer, Music Supervisor, in progress
2021 Kin TUR – Netflix Feature, Composer, in progress
2021 Guardians Of Anatolia USA documentary , in progress
2021 Tek Yön TUR short, Composer , in progress
2021 Leylak USA short, Composer & Exe. Producer
2020 One Way Ticket Tomorrow TUR – Netflix Feature, Music Supervisor
2019 Serenade DE Theatre, Composer, Orchestrator, Actor
2019 Don’t Let Me You Keep Apart TUR – Short, Composer
2019 The Yellow, The Cat, The Kayakers and The Host TUR -Short, Composer
2018 Draupadi Unleashed USA Feature Film, Composer
2018 Substratum U.K Live Mapping Performance, Composer
2018 Bartu Ben TUR TV Series , 10 Episodes ,Composer
2018 Butterflies TUR Feature film, Composer & Music Supervisor
2018 Timsah TUR Theatre, Composer
2018 Dört Köşeli Üçgen TUR Feature Film, Musical director & Additional musics
2018 Arif V 216 TUR Feature Film, as composer of Jinglehouse
2017 Kolonya Cumhuriyeti TUR Feature Film, Composer
2015 Lemonade TUR & MKD Feature Film, Composer
2015 Ivy TUR Feature Film, Composer & Music Supervisor
2015 Ali Baba ve 7 Cüceler TUR Feature Film, as composer of Jinglehouse
2015 Kocan Kadar Konuş TUR Feature Film, as composer of Jinglehouse
2015 Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş TUR Feature Film, Composer
2014 Let’s Sin TUR Feature Film, Composer
2014 Pek Yakında TUR Feature Film, as composer of Jinglehouse
2014 Patron Mutlu Son İstiyor TUR Feature Film, as composer of Jinglehouse
2014 I.K.Y.S TUR Short Film, Composer
2013 Ben de Özledim TUR TV Series, 10 Episodes, Composer
2013 Erkek Tarafi Testosteron TUR Feature Film, Composer
2013 Bebek İşi TUR – TV Series, 37 Episodes, Composer
2013 ShipsTUR Feature Film, Composer
2012 Sen Kimsin? TUR Feature Film, as composer of Jinglehouse
2012 Semaver ve Kumpanya TUR Theatre, Composer
2012 Aquarium CZE Short Animation, Composer
2011 Merry Go Round TUR Feature Film, Composer
2010 Tales of Beyoğlu U.K. Documentary Film, Composer
DISCOGRAPHY
2020 düğümdüğüm Single Album
2019 Şey Şey Şey Single Album
2019 Draupadi Unleashed Soundtrack Album
2019 Substratum Soundtrack Album
2018 Butterflies Soundtrack Album
2017 Kırınardı (Gevende) Studio Album
2016 Sarmaşış (Ivy) Soundtrack Album
2016 Biraz Daha Sessiz Ol Single Album
2015 Live at St. Antuan (Gevende) Live Album
2014 Monochroma (Gevende) Soundtrack Album
2011 Merry Go Round Soundtrack Album
2011 Sen Balık Değilsin ki (Gevende ) Studio Album
2006 Ev (Gevende) Studio Album