Artist Biography
Melike Ceylan (she/her) is a sound artist and interdisciplinary researcher specialized in electroacoustic music, radio art, and voice. Her works have been showcased in art exhibitions, radio broadcasts, theatre productions, and live performance settings in Canada and Europe. In her current work, she focuses on reproductive health advocacy and awareness in sound- and music-making contexts. Melike holds a PhD in Sonic Arts from the University of Calgary. She teaches music technology, radio broadcasting, and audio programming.
Artist Statement
My artistic work draws on the practice of experimental radio. Radio’s intimacy, familiarity, diversity of aural forms, and technology provide the foundation for my sound works, which (almost always) feature the human voice. I play with language to tell stories through multilayered narratives using singing and spoken word, as well as syllables, phonemes, mouth sounds, hums, and various other vocalizations.
Part documentary and part song, Flow is a new work for +15 Soundscape that explores a constellation of symptoms associated with menstrual pain. In this sonic environment of field recordings and voices, I invite you to disregard taboos, feel comfortable, and share knowledge about widely common but often dismissed menstrual conditions; because, as a triage nurse once told me, knowledge is power.