dennis aycicek (b. Essen, lives in Cologne) works within sound in live contexts, noise, non-music, and post-industrial soundscapes. his influence is shaped by heavy sound textures, empty spaces and the residue of function to set biographical remains in relation to the present.

aycicek is part of the cologne concert-organizing group soft rotation and co-hosts seminars and radio shows with otic radio at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. he performed and presented at blurred edges festival, stromspiesser, reiheM, CCCB Barcelona, moers festival and Anant National University in India.

//sound//noise//music//performance//

︎ SAY HEY 

* 1993           Essen, NRW, DE

+ 2014 -         freelance camera work 
+ 2014 - 2017    Mediengestalter Bild/Ton
+ 2015           Film Factory (funded by EWVA + Film und Medien Stiftung NRW)
+ 2017 - 2020    nationwide Videojournalism
+ 2019 -         freelance audio engineering / sound design
+ 2020 -         Media Art studies @ Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln (KHM)
+ 2021 -         sound engineer @ “soundings” concert series in cologne
+ 2022 - 2025    technical supervision for “Kolleg der Künste”, Montepulciano, IT


collaborating with

+ 2016 -         AWO Essen & Jugendwerk Essen
+ 2021 -         otic.radio - radio of the Academia of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)
+ 2022 -         HfMT Köln for Kolleg der Künste
+ 2023 -         soft rotation - concert series for experimental music and performance in Cologne
+ 2025 -         EDGE Neuroscience & Art e.V / Neurocamp Munich