Özcan Saraç is an electronic musician and artist whose genre-defying work envisions sound as an evolving organism - a self generating entity that reflects the fluidity of consciousness and the shifting relationship between organic - inorganic systems. His creative process treats narrative as something alive, capable of transformation, decay and rebirth. Through this living continuum, Saraç sees music to be experienced not as a fixed form, but as a constantly mutating field of awareness.
Since the release of his debut album Copnvvvs in 2022, Saraç developed a distinctive musical language that blends experimental, abstract, psychoacoustic, glitch and binaural forms with conceptual depth. Across seven studio albums, his innovative body of work has formed immersive sonic worlds that blur and ultimately redefine the boundaries between music, senses and thought.
Saraç's latest work, Neural Generators of the Auditory Brainstem Response, pushes this vision further, reimagining sound not just as an aesthetic experience but as a living system of cognition and perception. Through intricate sonic architectures, Saraç transforms the act of listening into an existential inquiry, inviting the audience to confront the complex relationship between being and time.
Beyond music production, Saraç's installations have been exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Istanbul, Zurich, Geneva, Basel, and Milan since 2013. He's been performing internationally.
ozcansaracinfo@gmail.com
''Wrapping one’s head around this album is not easy, especially so soon after its release. To really grasp its intricacies and nuances, each movement could potentially be explored on its own for a month. At each run through, different moments stand out and leave the listener in awe, a real feeling of “how” and “what did I just hear” that makes one doubt their own perception of sound. Since the very first listen, however, Neural Generators of the Auditory Brainstem Response makes it clear that it will keep on offering new discoveries and bottomless reflection, and that both in its abstraction, extension and depth, it is one of the best works of its kind in recent memory.''
IGLOO MAG - 2025
''Manifestations of Natural Phenomena is a furnace blast introduction to the uncompromising work of Özcan Saraç, who has proceeded over the past decade from installation artist working across the world to release his work in the physical and digital domains since 2022. The set plays to the range of Saraç’s sound, characterising fascinations with radical electronics between the head-scrambling hyper chromatic whorls of ‘Time (0,0)’ thru to crushing, militant percussion and minor key string arrangements ripe for a cyberpunk flick soundtrack on its numerous ‘Motion’ parts, and another, finer, strain of investigation in the ‘Space’ pieces that trade in deeply trippy stereo diffusions of sound on the threshold of perception.''
BOOMKAT - 2023
''The album contains strong undercurrents of glitch and noise and engages with other IDM styles to create a jagged and anxious flow over its eleven tracks. There are no melodies between the grooves and no contrast between the different elements – everything is blatantly exhibited on the same level. Özcan Saraç is an artist not inclined to compromise, resulting in an album that is blunt and direct. His riotous generative glitch brutalism hits the spot. One way for a musician to respond to centralized control is to increase the degree of radicalism in their work by deconstructing, for example, concepts such as pleasant or harmonious, Saraç does this on Copnvvvs and much more. It is a corrosive work, that comes in a limited edition black polycarbonate compact disc with a negative print on the chromatic upper layer.''
NEURAL MAG - 2022
DISCOGRAPHY + COMPILATIONS
Neural Generators of the Auditory Brainstem Response / LP + Poster
2025 FEB / Released on Evel Records (ESP)
TON / Double CD & Digital LP
2024 MAY / Released on Evel Records (ESP)
Manifestations of Natural Phenomena / Digital LP
2023 SEP / Released on Superpang (IT)
Inevitable Equalization / Digital LP
2023 APR / Released on Tokinogake (JP)
0:1 / Digital LP
2023 APR / Released on Tokinogake (JP)
OPUS H04S CELL / CD, Vinly & Digital LP
2022 SEP / Released on Kaer'Uiks (DE)
Copnvvvs / CD & Digital LP
2022 MAR / Released on Kaer'Uiks (DE)
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Time Series Processing 1 / Compilation
2023 MAY / Released on Tokinogake
KRX6CAMX / Mix: 20
2022 DEC / Releaased on INDEX
Vacant King Remixes / Vague Tomes (Özcan Saraç Remix)
2022 FEB / Released on Kaer'Uiks
EXHIBITIONS + PERFORMANCES
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art / Ethical
2024 FEB - AUG / Timeless Curiosities exhibition
Sónar Festival / Chain_Block
2020 MAR / Sonar +D exhibition
Anna Laudel Gallery / Transmisson
2019 SEP - OCT / Intergalactic exhibition
Gallery BU / G5
2019 MAY / Things of Now exhibition
Sıraselviler 35 / Über_Alles & System
2019 APR / Border_less Art Book Days
Adahan Art Space / System
2018 MAY / M.E.T.A. exhibition
Bilsart / Über_Alles
2018 APR / Crossed Destinies exhibition
Macao Milano / Artificial
2017 DEC / Confusion exhibition
Zorlu PSM / Chain_Block
2017 NOV-DEC / Across the Line exhibition
Mixer Gallery / Artificial
2017 SEP - OCT / O+oma+A exhibition
42 Maslak Art Space / G20
2017 MAY - JUN / Bang Prix exhibition
Mixer Gallery / Chain_Block
2017 JAN - MAR / Observed Truths exhibition
Mixer Gallery / System
2016 JUL / Sessions exhibition
Mamut Art Project / Generated & Labels
2016 APR / MAP16 exhibition
Haus der Elektronischen Künste / Manifestations
2015 MAR - APR - MAY / Act festival
Pinelo Gallery / Labels
2015 APR / I'm Here Project II
Haliç Shipyard / Generated
2014 JUL / I'm Here Project I
SVA Art Space / Absence
2014 SEP / Interactions exhibition
PCA Exhibition Space / Generated
2013 JUL / Codes exhibition
Blue Period Gallery / Self.titled
2013 NOV / Nostalgia exhibition
TALKS + SEMINARS
Transdisciplinary Arts & Post-Media
2022 JUN / CoBac WorkSpace
Young Names of Art
2020 JAN / MS Cultural Center
Human Consciousness and State of Knowledge
2019 SEP / Anna Laudel Gallery
Artist Talk
2018 APR / Bilsart Art Space
Post Media and Beyond
2018 MAR / Marmara University - Faculty of Fine Arts
Post Media and Beyond
2018 MAR / Öney Architecture - ChatLab I
Art and Innovation
2018 JAN / Istanbul Modern - Genç Modern
Radio Show 'Sanat Hayat'
2017 SEP / Açık Radio, Sessions
STUDIES + RESIDINCIES
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / BA Media Arts
2014 - 2016 / Zürich CH
École Parsons à Paris / BA Photography
2012 - 2014 / Paris FR
University of Essex / BSc Business Economics
2007 - 2012 / Essex UK
Liceo Italiano I.M.I. / High School
2002 - 2007 / Istanbul TR
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Alt.City by British Council / Arts Residency
2017 OCT - NOV / Zorlu Performance Arts Center
Live Academy / Sound Design and Production
2016 DEC / Live Academy
Shanghai Living / School of Visual Arts New York
2013 / SVA