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Adnan Saygun, one of the two leading composers of the Turkish Five, was a serious ethnomusicologist who led the fieldwork in gathering folk material, and collaborated with prominent musicological researcher and composer, Béla Bartók. Like Bartók, Saygun used folk elements extens…

Voices of the Earth was the composer’s first large-scale work attempting to interweave musical styles from across global history with natural soundscapes, combing natural and primordial sounds (like thunder, rockfalls, and animal calls) that are gradually transformed into sounds…