Dennis Aydemir is a songwriter and front man in the indie art rock genre band Deniz of The Beez, and director and producer of the three-part documentary trilogy, Time Travels Through Sound. Dennis was born in California and grew up in Istanbul. At two-and-a-half years old, he had favorite artists--REM and Eric Clapton. He started playing keyboard at seven, piano at 11 and when he received a guitar on his twelfth birthday, he decided his music career had begun.
By the age of 15 he was a go-to guitarist, bassist and vocalist in several Istanbul music scenes, and in 2015, graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He had the honor of subbing for one of Turkey’s most influential jazz bassists, and had the pleasure to open for Nick Cave, who he lists as one of his musical influences. He also worked as lyricist and translator for the award-winning band Women of the World in a project discussing the socio-political issues surrounding the 2011 Fukushima power plant disaster.
Aydemir is fluent in Japanese, Spanish, Turkish and English and his current creative impulsions are rooted in his belief that when a language dies, humanity loses wisdom, but also that there is hope, so long as music is still sung. His non-narrative documentary trilogy, Time Travels Through Sound explores music that faces extinction due to language death. The first film of this trilogy, The Elements, was shot over two years in communities throughout Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Japan, China, Turkey, Vietnam and Russia. His films are not stories to be told, but stories to behold. They are not about grasping, or necessarily finding resolution but about letting go and losing oneself in one’s own depths through sound.
CONTACT DENNIS AYDEMIR
Website: https://www.dennisaydemir.com/
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