Salih Bademci - Sesler

Age Rating: 8+
On stage, a young man speaks directly to us about a very personal fascination: sounds.
He addresses the audience as if giving a presentation.
At the center of the stage stands a long table — almost like a control desk — filled with various devices, objects, photographs, and recordings.
He talks about the impact sounds have had on his life.
Starting from his childhood, he shares how this fascination began and slowly took shape.
At first, his story feels deeply personal.
But as it unfolds, we begin to realize how profoundly sound lives within our collective memory.
We don’t just hear the sounds he describes — we sense them.
With our memories, our emotions, our intuition.
Even sounds we’ve never actually heard before feel strangely familiar.
Sounds from the present, from our childhoods, from centuries past…
They merge, separate, collide, transform — and carry us on a journey.
The young man follows the sounds of the city he lives in, and we follow him.
Personal history turns into shared memory.
Through what we hear, we confront what we’ve forgotten, notice what we’ve grown used to, and listen again to what we’ve long passed by.
We rediscover a city — through sound.

Written by: Kerem Kurdoğlu
Directed by: Mehmet Birkiye
Performed by: Salih Bademci
Set & Lighting Design: Cem Yılmazer
Sound & Effects Design: Oğuzhan Akalın
Music: Şahin Kureta
Producers: Şermin Ekinci – Sercan Apak
Production Coordinator: Elif Naz Atmaca
Assistant Director: Gozel Rovshanova
Poster Design: Ayşe Zeynep Satıcı, Hüseyin Demirkan
Lighting Technician: Özgür Karaböcek
Assistant Directors: Ata Şimşek, Su Özdemir
With special thanks to: Devrim Erbil, Gün Zileli