Elif Yalvac’s introduced her first SELF-release in 8 years on 20 December 2025: “Hypnopomp EP” after valuable collaborations and solo works released with others. This s a flashcore work spanning several years. Check it out on bandcamp with 6 themes centred around Elif’s current approach to music.
About Elif Yalvac:
Based in London, Elif Yalvaç (née Hazal Elif Yalvaç) is a producer, composer and guitarist from North Western Turkey. Her journey in sound started as a young girl getting enthusiastic about electric guitar and retro game audio. She has had an over a decade long presence in music with international appearances, especially in the UK, Iceland, and Norway, through solo and collaborative works and performances, music critic reviews, and radio features.Having worked with others (including the Brooklyn-based label NNA Tapes in 2020) and independently, Elif pushes the boundaries and believes in the value of organic connections in the music scene, defying the obstacles posed by algorithms or capital-oriented PR agencies and their stakeholders.
Elif’s latest solo work, Hypnopomp EP (December 2025) features elements of flashcore, speedcore, noise, and ambient music, drawing on her versatile approaches and background in music, valuing learning, as well as making the most of constraints. Elif collaborates with others extensively, including Norwegian ambient music artist Kristoffer Lislegaard, her avantgarde metal project Diaries of Destruction; her collaborations with Jordan Muscatello, her contemporary ambient project with pianist Philamelian, and Green Drift with Expert Sleepers, and primarily with her longest standing collaborator Michael Bearpark. She has performed with a wide range of artists internationally including Eraldo Bernocchi, Colin Edwin, Jon Durant, and Jono Podmore.
Alongside her performance and production efforts, Elif curates and hosts “Talk to the Chip”, a podcast on pioneering electronic music on Resonance FM with Jono Podmore. She is the curator of the bi-monthly live electronics event series “Heart of Noise Cambridge” at Cambridge Junction, and “Electronics At Eight” series in Milton Court Concert Hall in London for Guildhall School. Elif holds an MA degree in Music from Istanbul Technical University, with a thesis on the creative and aesthetic value of limitations in the context of Chip Music. She teaches electronic music composition and production in Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she is the pathway leader for Electronic Music in EPM.
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