Our album BETTER ME is out today! @neos.music
We’re very happy to finally share this music with you.
Available now on all platforms.
Listen, share and enjoy!
Vanessa Porter & Emil Kuyumcuyan
@daniel_mudrack@tunc_cakir_perc_drums
#BetterMe #Percussion #Electronics #NewMusic #AlbumRelease
BETTER ME ✨
Release: 15 May !
Our first album together — featuring original compositions for percussion & electronics.
Available on all platforms.
Stay tuned 🖤
Vanessa Porter & Emil Kuyumcuyan
#BETTERME #Percussion #Electronics #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic
On 15 May 2026, the percussionists Vanessa Porter and Emil Kuyumcuyan will release their first duo-album BETTER ME on the Label Neos. BETTER ME exclusively presents compositions by both artists that move between contemporary music, electronic sound art, and performative energy. At its core is a wider understanding of percussion: noises, resonances, and impulses become as important as harmony, melody, and rhythm. The electronics don’t function as add-on, but as an equal musical partner. A defining element of the album is the tension between control and openness. Composed passages seamlessly transition into improvisational spaces where decisions are made in the moment. Thus, listening itself becomes a process - characterized by movement, intensification, and dissolution. The album invites the listener to delve into details while simultaneously perceiving larger sonic movements. Thematically, the project reflects central questions of our time: the desire for self-determination, identity, and visibility. BETTER ME deliberately remains open—as music in the making, between acoustic physicality and electronic expansion, between presence and possibility.
@_vanessaporter@emil.kuyum@neos.music #firstduoalbum #contemporarymusic #electronicsoundart #performativeenergy #percussionists @schimmer_pr
PILGRIM Trance — my composition for 10 percussionists — is now on YouTube. Commissioned by @montforterzwischentoene .
A very special world premiere, created together with students from Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Feldkirch at Stella Vorarlberg, with my partner in crime Vanessa Porter.
Grateful for this powerful collaboration.
https://youtu.be/4Ol2yDXpQ80
#pilgrimtrance #percussion #contemporarymusic #worldpremiere #newmusic
Der Recap-Film von 58 Minuten ist online!
Hier anschauen: https://youtu.be/0nBaI7hCyBU?is=LwMWV3eWTz7NhwGA
In ihrem Konzertformat blicken Pianistin Nina Gurol (@nina_gurol ) und Schlagzeugerin Vanessa Porter (@_vanessaporter ) auf ein alltägliches und oft tabuisiertes Problem in Deutschland: Suizide.
Das Konzert fungiert als Raum für Emotionen, Erfahrungen, Reflexion durch Musik und Klang. Ein ganz besonderer Abend mit Kompositionen unter anderem von
💫Sophie Emilie Beha @sophiemiliebeha
💫Vincent Stange @vincent_stange
Im wundervollen @tonalisaal in Hamburg.
Excited for „Schöne Töne Live“ on March 13!
Featuring the spectacular percussion duo
Vanessa Porter & Emil Kuyumcuyan
and harp virtuoso Julie Campiche.
With the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
conducted by Stefan Malzew.
Also presenting music by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Julia Wolfe.
📍 Großer Sendesaal, Berlin
🎟 Tickets: link in bio / DSO-Berlin.de
//\\ Memories of Rebecca Saunders’ Void — for two percussionists & orchestra — with @staatskapelle_halle conducted by Fabrice Bollon.
What a piece.
Captured by Anna Kolata
#music #art #concerto #rebeccasaunders #percussion
Entropie beschreibt in der Thermodynamik die Unordnung oder den Grad der Unkenntnis in einem System. In künstlerischen Prozessen ist sie bedeutsam für die Balance zwischen Struktur und Auflösung, Ordnung und Chaos. Diese kontrastierenden Elemente fließen in εντροπία zu einer polyrhythmischen multisensorischen Performance zusammen.
É𝗡𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣í𝗔
📅 𝗙𝗿. 𝟬𝟲.𝟬𝟮. ⏰ 𝟮𝟮:𝟯𝟬
📍 @theaterhaus.stuttgart , T2
Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Éndropía
für Percussion solo, Elektronik und Video (2025) UA
mit:
Vanessa Porter @_vanessaporter , Schlagzeug
Klangregie Andrei Cucu @andreicucucucu
Video @samir_odehtamimi
🎫 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 & 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼: eclat org (Link in Bio)
📸 Fotos: privat, Oliver Look, Andra Salaoru
