Usmanbaş: Modernist

Usmanbaş: Modernist (—)

N/A 40 min Movie
DocumentaryMusic

Music is mathematics, science, and modernist openness.

A portrait of İlhan Usmanbaş, one of the most radical pioneers of contemporary music in Turkey. Through handwritten scores, personal archives, fragmented memories and experimental imagery, the film explores a century-long devotion to musical freedom, modernism and the relentless pursuit of new sounds. An intimate encounter with a composer who never stopped questioning the boundaries of music.

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Cast

İlhan Usmanbaş İlhan Usmanbaş

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