Can Bilir

Can Bilir is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar of sound studies and music. He has been commissioned for numerous interdisciplinary music programs including the MET and MUSMA: European Broadcasting Project. His compositions have been featured in leading venues and music festivals across the globe. His works challenge the modern conventions and technological extensions of complex sounds, listening and audibility, identity, materiality of sound, and acoustic ecologies. He has joined Kafka’s Transformative Communities as the Composer in Residence, commissioned for the Oxford International Song Festival, and is the Albi Rosenthal-Bodleian Fellow at the University of Oxford. For this work, he has been examining Franz Kafka’s manuscripts, publications, and secondary literature at the Oxford Bodleian Libraries and special collections, with a focus on silence and other-than-human persons in Kafka’s short stories.