Leap into the Void - On the Music of İlhan Usmanbaş

Aykut Köksal and Mehmet Nemutlu's book, Leap into the Void - On İlhan Usmanbaş's Music, has taken its place on the shelves as the latest publication in the Arketonses series. Aslı Uzdil edited the book, which features rich visual content.

The title of the book, "Leap into the Void," refers to İlhan Usmanbaş's work written for solo violin and four instruments between 1965 and 1966, and the radio program that inspired this work. The content of the book consists of an interview conducted by Aykut Köksal and Mehmet Nemutlu on Açık Radyo in 1999, focusing on İlhan Usmanbaş's music. Köksal and Nemutlu, who have been collaborating on studies of İlhan Usmanbaş's music for many years, presented the interview on Açık Radyo accompanied by the composer's performed works. In this book, examples from the scores of the works they discussed are included. Thus, graphic notation, an important dimension of Usmanbaş's production, accompanies the interview with direct examples. The works discussed focus on the period between 1946 and 1986, which forms the core of Usmanbaş's music.

In 2015, Aykut Köksal and Mehmet Nemutlu, accompanied by musicologist Kıvılcım Yıldız, published the Usmanbaş monograph titled Perpetuum Mobile. This monograph included articles written by musicians about Usmanbaş, as well as İlhan Usmanbaş's own explanatory texts about his works and a detailed catalog.

Leap into the Void is the third book published in the Arketonses series, based on Açık Radyo programs. Previously, Aykut Köksal and Bülent Gözkân's work "On Gödel, Escher, Bach" and Aykut Köksal and Mehmet Nemutlu's book titled Music and Open Work were published. Aykut Köksal's Baroque Transformation - The Adventure of Music's Modernization was also included in Arketon Publications.