In the organizer's words:

Psychedelic exotica or pop folk for the whole family?
Transcultural connections in pop music
A Visual Sonic Lecture
Speaker: Tuncay Acar

Location: Schauburg Labor, Rosenheimer Str. 192, 81669 Munich
Date: 07.02.26
Time: 19.30 h
Free admission
Link: https://triptown.de/?tribe_events=visual-sonic-lecture-psychedelic-exotica-oder-popfolk-fuer-die-ganze-familie

Music plays an essential role in the formation of human identity. Even seemingly very individual tastes in music are influenced by perception filters, which in turn are marked by social socialization.

Especially in pop culture, a "Western" canon still prevails worldwide. In order to successfully promote songs worldwide, they have to be adapted to a specific "cultural noise" to a certain extent.

However, this is not just a contemporary phenomenon. Over the centuries, musical archives have been passed on over great distances through migration and trade and constantly adapted to local listening habits, changed linguistically and varied again and again. As people moved across the globe, so did their musical instruments and thus the music.

Tuncay Acar's parents belong to the first generation of German "guest workers" and organized concerts for greats of so-called Anatolian psychedelic rock as early as the 1970s as part of their political commitment - among them were names such as: Cem Karaca, Selda Bagcan and Edip Akbayram. Little Tuncay was able to experience these artists and many more live at a young age and he has called the records they brought home his own ever since, having snatched them from his family's record shelf.

In this lecture, Tuncay Acar will use concrete examples to show how certain melodies and rhythms have managed to retain their popularity over long periods of time and influence current pop culture.

There will be time for questions afterwards. So come along and bring your own perspective.

Tuncay Acar is a DJ, musician, blogger and cultural activist. Growing up in two "Funky Towns" - Munich and Istanbul - he explores the deepest depths of Northern Talism as Dj Süperfly, constantly crossing the boundaries of cultural, ethnic, geographical, chronological and fictional regions and musical genres. The aim is to deconstruct the omnipresent dominance of identity concepts in dance music in order to make room for unbiased transcultural ecstasy.

He expands his exquisite vinyl collection with digital finds from various genres: Kurdish Halay, Gazinomüzik, Arabesk, Anatolian & Arabian Psychedelia, Electro and Hip Hop mashups, edits and remixes of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern psychedelic classics, hits from Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, Israel, Egypt, Maghreb, North Africa, the Balkans and also from Memphis/Tennessee amalgamate together with a pinch of Latin Boogaloo in the brew of passion and the heat of the Southeast.