İpek Görgün

Ipek Gorgun is a Turkish experimental musician who has been associated with the Red Bull Music Academy. She has opened for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and collaborated with Egyptrixx, Ryoji Ikeda and Otomo Yoshihide.

Life Gorgun was born in Ankara. Her first degree was in political science at Bilkent University and she then studied at Galatasaray University, where her master's degree in philosophy looked at the implications of Martin Heidegger's work. In 2014 she attended the Red Bull Music Academy and this led to her playing with the Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda and the Japanese composer Otomo Yoshihide. She was (in 2018 Her debut album, Aphelion, was released in 2016. She went on to play for BBC Radio 3's Open Ear and she played her electronic adaption of Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird as a prelude to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Oggimusica Acousmonium.

In 2018 her second album, Ecce Homo, was released by Touch. She was again playing with the Red Bull Academy, playing at Berlin’s Dystopie Sound Art Festival and preparing an exhibition of her photography.