Who Are @Fungistanbul
Fungistanbul Music Band I Trash Oriental Project
Music with Upcycled Instruments from Waste Materials
Potsaz & Cansaz : Roni Aran
Potbass & Tarbasin & Talking Can : Serhat Ayebe
Candrum, Pipebongo & Whistle Bottle : Herman Artuç
Fungistanbul music group, founded in Istanbul, released their ethnic & instrumental music album called ‘Phenology’ in 2014, in which they played with professional musical instruments. With the music video titled Trash Oriental / Çer Çöp Havası, which they released in 2019, the band started a new upcycling and art project, which they named the same as the video.
Fungistanbul team members, whose musical performances and concerts they made with instruments they produced by upcycling waste materials within the scope of the project and the documentaries and music videos they published on the Fungistanbul – YouTube channel, attracted great attention in Turkish and world media, diversified the events they organized and met with individuals from different disciplines, social classes and age groups. They started to organize face-to-face events where they could come into closer contact and where participants could experience upcycling.
Aiming to ensure the sustainability of the project and to reach a wider audience through sponsorship agreements and collaborations with public institutions, non-governmental organizations, schools, universities and the private sector, the group members purchased the curious waste stage instruments of Fungistanbul and the stage costumes Ruken Adıbelli designed and produced for the group members. While they continue to organize upcycling exhibitions featuring stage costumes, they come together with children and adults in instrument making and music workshops from waste, and seminars and conversation events on music with waste instruments.
While group musicians Roni Aran, Serhat Ayebe and Herman Artuç continue to be the voice of waste by using instruments made of waste materials in all of their compositions and interpretations of Anatolian and World folk music, starting from the album titled Trash Oriental/Çer Çöp Havası, which they released at the beginning of 2022, they reveal the creativity within today’s people. It invites us to find environmentally friendly solutions while producing, consuming and transforming, and to imagine a livable, nature-friendly future.
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We in the Press
Fungistanbul is in the TRT World Documentary! Seeds of Change ‘Seeds of Change’
> Featuring Fungistanbul’s music story with waste instruments and music from Trash Oriental’s ‘Çer Çöp Havası’ album, directed by award-winning documentary director Susan Gray and presented by famous Hollywood actor Adrian Grenier, the effects of global climate change on Turkey and the world and this The new documentary, which raises awareness in the field and includes extraordinary projects, as well as the innovative and sustainable steps taken by Turkey in the fight against the global climate change problem, is on air on TRT World – YouTube channel!
> TRT World / 23.07.2023
Special clip from Fungistanbul and Okay Temiz for #WorldEnvironmentDay!
> Fungistanbul music group, which produces songs and videos with instruments made from waste materials, continues to make a difference with its latest song “Kalenin Bodies”, released together with Okay Temiz, one of the pioneers of jazz music in Turkey. While many institutions, organizations and non-governmental organizations are working to raise zero waste awareness, the Fungistanbul music group aims to raise awareness on this issue with the instruments they produce from waste materials.
> Çevre TV / 05.06.2023
The Music of Recycling
>Fungistanbul music group aims to draw attention to the concepts of recycling, re-evaluation, upcycling and architectural transformation of idle buildings, re-functioning and bringing to life the buildings that have lost their functions over time and remaining dilapidated and neglected, protecting natural resources and transferring cultural heritage to future generations, leading to a nature-friendly, sustainable life. The music video, which was shot at the old Silahtarağa Power Plant, which was transformed into the Santral Istanbul Energy Museum, was prepared by the Fungistanbul music group for the June 5th World Environment Day and Environment Week, and featured percussion master Okay Temiz as a guest, in order to emphasize that it will contribute to the on air.
> FOX TV / 11.06.2023
In order to draw attention to the drought problem in Turkey, the Fungistanbul music group released their music video called ‘Lament for Water’, shot in Karapınar, Konya.
> NTV News / Drought Danger in Turkey / 09.01.2023
Concert with Musical Instruments Made from Garbage Waste
> Fungİstanbul group collects waste in the trash and turns it into instruments in order to raise awareness against environmental pollution.
> The group that makes ethnic music by addressing nature, art and life issues; They also give concerts with instruments they create from discarded waste such as metal, plastic bottles and canisters.
> VOA / Voice of America / 11.08.2022
On the special stage, Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they called “trash oriental” in 2019
> and designed musical instruments from waste via upcycling…”
> – Daily Sabah / Upcycle Istanbul Art & Design Festival / June 07, 2022
They perform their songs with “zero waste
> – Anadolu Agency / 31.05.2022
Fungistanbul’s Emphasis on Waste-Free Living’
> – Jazz Magazine / 18 May 2022
Fungistanbul, a group that defines themselves as upcyclers, organized a campaign to draw attention to plastic pollution
> They prepared the album ‘Trash Oriental’ with instruments they upcycled from waste materials.”
> – Radio Voyage 107.4 / Album of the Month / 6 March 2022
Members of the Turkish band ‘Fungistanbul’ made their musical instruments using discarded plastic items
> – Reuters / 26.06.2021
Fungistanbul finds music in landfill. – TRT World Turkey / 28.06.2021
Turkish musicians make ‘trash music’ to promote recycling.
> – Agence France Presse (AFP) / 18.11.2021
Meet the music of Fungistanbul, a band that upcycles waste into instruments
> – BBC Turkish / 21.06.2021
Music made by Fungistanbul with plastic waste found in garbage: Upcycling’
> – Deutsche Welle (DW) / 23.06.2021
Notes from the garbage
> – NTV /