Music and sound

Recorded pieces, live sets, and small experiments in listening, all orbiting around space and acoustics.

A cozy, contemporary living room designed as an experimental listening space, captured in photographic realism. A low modular sofa in muted teal fabric faces a wall of floating wooden acoustic panels with irregular, playful geometry. On a sleek sideboard below, small reference speakers flank a glowing audio interface and a laptop displaying colorful waveforms, screen softly reflected on the matte surface. Late afternoon golden-hour light enters through a large window with sheer curtains, casting elongated shadows that emphasize texture in the panels and textiles. The mood is inviting and curious, as if the room itself is a quiet laboratory. Shot at eye level with a wide lens, the composition balances foreground plants and background shelving, keeping everything in crisp focus to showcase the harmonious meeting of interior design and sound.

Sounds & spaces

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A narrow, reverberant corridor in an old cultural building, transformed into a temporary acoustic research site, rendered in vivid photographic realism. The long space is lined with mismatched doors, peeling pastel paint, and high ceilings adorned with simple moldings. Along the corridor floor, small omnidirectional microphones on slim stands and bright-colored tape markings trace a playful zigzag measurement path. At the far end, a compact loudspeaker on a tripod faces down the hallway. Overcast daylight seeps in from a single high window, creating a soft, slightly moody atmosphere with gentle reflections on the worn terrazzo floor. Captured from a low-angle, vanishing-point perspective, the composition emphasizes the corridor’s depth and echoic character, conveying the feeling of listening to architecture and exploring cultural spaces through sound.
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An intimate photographic close-up of a scale model of a performance space on a clean white table. The model features pale wooden balconies, tiny sculpted diffusers along the walls, and a stage with a miniature grand piano rendered in matte black. Around the model lie scattered tracing paper overlays with sketched acoustic diagrams and frequency-response plots, slightly curled at the edges. Cool, diffused studio lighting from above creates soft, even illumination, with subtle highlights on the model’s wooden surfaces and delicate shadows in the balcony recesses. The atmosphere is playful and exploratory, as if caught in the middle of a creative experiment. Captured at a low, slightly oblique angle with shallow depth of field, the foreground edges of the model are razor sharp while the background charts melt into pleasing bokeh, emphasizing design details and research thinking.

Hope D.

Her sets feel like walking through a building by ear; every room has its own mood, texture, and small surprise.

A night-time city rooftop transformed into an outdoor listening lab, overlooking a dense urban fabric, rendered in crisp photographic realism. On the gravel surface, a portable field recorder, directional microphones on compact stands, and a small array of reflective acoustic panels form a playful experimental setup. Low parapet walls frame views of varied building facades, some with illuminated windows, others dark and textured. The scene is lit mainly by sodium-vapor streetlights and distant neon, casting warm, cinematic glows and cool shadows across equipment and rooftop pipes. A long-exposure feel creates subtle light trails from passing traffic far below. Captured at eye level with a moderate lens, the composition uses the rule of thirds, keeping the recording setup in sharp foreground focus while the cityscape softens into a bokeh of color, emphasizing urban soundscapes as both research subject and cultural ecosystem.

Hope D.

Ceyda hears venues as ecosystems; playing here, I felt the space supporting the music instead of fighting it.

A warmly lit rehearsal room that doubles as an acoustics playground, captured in photographic realism. The space features honey-colored hardwood floors, perforated wooden wall panels for diffusion, and a high ceiling with suspended acoustic clouds in irregular, whimsical shapes. In the center stands a polished upright piano with its top open, strings exposed, while a cluster of small contact microphones, cables, and a portable recorder rest on a nearby stool. Soft tungsten pendant lights cast cozy pools of light, creating gentle reflections on the piano’s lacquer and subtle shadows between the ceiling clouds. The mood is playful and experimental, as if music and research blend seamlessly here. Shot from a slightly elevated corner with a wide lens, the image includes a chalkboard wall filled with abstract diagrams in the background, slightly blurred to keep focus on the instrument and space.

Hope D.

Listening on headphones, you can still sense the architecture underneath, like the tracks remember which walls they first bounced off.

A cozy, contemporary living room designed as an experimental listening space, captured in photographic realism. A low modular sofa in muted teal fabric faces a wall of floating wooden acoustic panels with irregular, playful geometry. On a sleek sideboard below, small reference speakers flank a glowing audio interface and a laptop displaying colorful waveforms, screen softly reflected on the matte surface. Late afternoon golden-hour light enters through a large window with sheer curtains, casting elongated shadows that emphasize texture in the panels and textiles. The mood is inviting and curious, as if the room itself is a quiet laboratory. Shot at eye level with a wide lens, the composition balances foreground plants and background shelving, keeping everything in crisp focus to showcase the harmonious meeting of interior design and sound.

Hope D.

A rare blend of rigor and play—her research, mixes, and notes all invite you to listen more carefully to everyday spaces.