2/5 BZ september 2003 tour
5 th friday mares / maastricht ' project-ctrl-alt-del 's openning act . other participiants played in istanbul ( merzbow, kim cascone , scanner , matt wand ,..
9 th tuesday astrastube / hamburg http://www.astra-stube.de
berlinOPUA tour
11th thursday eschschloraque / berlin haus-schwarzenberg rosanthaller str . 39
12 th friday '' crashcourse '' in rungestr. 20 // berlin-mitte / meinebank
13 th saturday http://dienstbar.de.vu / salon bruit berlin Schliemannstr. 40
14 th ssunday sama cafe 32, squat berlin-friedrichshain
16 th thusday http://www.sparwasserhq.de gallery torstrasse 161 , 10115 berlin
17 th wendesday automatenbar / berlin
2/5 BZ
Since 1986, Serhat Koksal aka 2/5 BZ has been performing with tapes, samplers, saz, electronics ,darbouka and spoken word. The style varies between traditional music via experimental electronic sounds to improvisation with elements that stem from Turkish cinema. He also makes
audiotapes, photocopy zines, stickers, CDR, flyers, DVD-R, posters, and video cut-up works as collages of 70s and 80s Turkish melodrama and action films, political propaganda and media imageries of social phenomena. 2/5 BZ performed 'No Turistik No Egzotik Improvise/Electro Folk Cut' in 38 cities
in different geographies such as in Switzerland, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Poland. With '2/5BZ union in eurOPUA Tour' he recently participated to some international festivals like Berlin Clubtransmediale, 03 Festival, Istanbul Phonem Festival, St Petersburg SKIF 7 Festival, Amsterdam WorldWideVideo/RGB Festival , Rotterdam Music Bienal and have been aired on countless radio stations around the world (WMFU, BBC, RCV,VPRO ) . 2/5BZ aka Serhat Koksal composed musics some
international experimental films from Germany,Iran,Switzerland and living/working in Istanbul .
http://2-5bz.com
2/5 BZ news ;
DE:BUG.73 07/08.2003 magazine CD reviewed ***** ( ja ) about BerBat Zoksal 's '' No Touristik No Egzotik '' album .
2/5BZ played in ' i am too sad to kill you ! ' exhibition opening act in proje4L gallery 10 july 2003 istanbul .
2/5 BZ trent roportaj
http://www.trendsettermag.com/template.asp?baslik_idU2
2/5BZ played Video and Audio performance in international World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam 23 may 2003 .http://www.wwvf.nl/2003/0rgb.htm
This live performance in Radio VPRO 's audio archive '' No Touristic No Exotic Turkish Sound Terrorist '' ;
http://pages.vpro.nl/3voor12/concerts/concert.shtml?2534202+2584688+2584508+12204428+12204363
2/5BZ aka Serhat Koksal in John Peel Session BBC Radio 1 in 6 may 2003