Berkay Tuncay: Poems from Descriptive Noise

“Berkay Tuncay manipulates words like found objects. From Poems from Relaxation Videos (2018) to Poems from Instant Messaging (2020), he sifts through, classifies, and recomposes social media and digital communication to create new significations. His latest work, Poems from Descriptive Noise (2022), extracts lines of text used to describe the background sounds of a movie or television series in closed captioning mode. [DOOR OPENS] [BREATHING HEAVILY] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]: when placed side by side, these words give expression to the unsaid and what can be revealed behind our pauses and silences.”

A collection of textual sound poems created entirely from descriptive noise subtitles ranging from sniffles, grunts and giggles to foreboding music and car horns honking, with an essay by Süreyyya Evren, published on the occasion of an exhibition at SANATORIUM in Istanbul.