Tunç Çakır, born in Kırklareli-Turkey and living in Istanbul-Turkey, is a producer, drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, mixing and mastering engineer. His style is mostly based on electronic music. Thanks to the classical music and jazz education he received during his elementary school years, he is also influenced by a serious acoustic music tradition and reflects these roots in his music. He describes his own music as more Bass Music, IDM, Electronica, and Electro, while in his acoustic music projects, he performs different music styles such as Pop, Jazz, Rock, Funk, Rnb, Soul, HipHop, and Disco.

       As one of the co-founders of the company Volt Age Electronic Musical Instruments (VAEMI), Tunç Çakır is also a studio owner and provides private training in the fields of percussion and electronic music-synthesizer programming-sound design. He has his own music and albums and has participated in many concerts and festivals. Additionally, his song "Blue Room," composed and produced by him and released by the Dutch record label Wic Recordings, is included in the soundtrack of the globally famous computer game "Katana Zero." In this song, the Dutch electronic music artist LudoWic features as well.
Tunç Çakır has released a single with Hakan Kalgıdım, two remixes with Ekin Beril, and one remix with Emre Kula. He has done sound design for Osman Dinç's exhibition "Noise," sound design and drum programming for the dance project "İzole," choreographed by Tan Temel and Sernaz Demirel from Tork Dance, and made the music for the dance show "Çıkış," choreographed by Didem Ertan, in collaboration with Barış Ertürk. Between 2006 and 2023, he founded and participated in many groups and projects. The bands he founded or co-founded include "Puka," "Bir Gün Bir Adam," and "Nada." He has also been a member of groups such as Kangroove, Gevende, and Teneffüs. As a producer, he has worked with artists like Gökhan Türkmen, Ceylan Ertem, Mabel Matiz, Nükhet Duru, Ege Çubukçu, Grogi, Dyghe, Nada, Hakan Kalgıdım, Bir Gün Bir Adam, Gazla, DJ U.F.U.K, Ahmet Faik Dökmeci, Güler Tuncer, Ediz Hafızoğlu, Ufuk Atar, and Aslı Demirer. Among his productions that have reached millions of listens, examples include Tunç Çakır feat. LudoWic "Blue Room" (Katana Zero Version), Gökhan Türkmen's song "Ben Unuturum," and Mabel Matiz - Nükhet Duru's song "Nerde." He has worked as a mixing engineer on over 150 songs, a mastering engineer on more than 50 songs, and an arranger on over 100 songs.

       As a musician, he has worked and performed with artists, DJs, groups, and musicians such as Tarkan, Gökhan Türkmen, Kangroove, 123, Aşkın Arsunan, Önder Focan, Athena, Pasaporte Latino, Je-Latin, Ercüment Vural, Steve Smith, Emir Ersoy, Atiye, Sertab Erener, Athena, Can Bonobo, Bora Uzer, Stimilus, İmer Demirer, Mira, Korhan Futacı, Okay Temiz, Amik Guerra, Ceylan Ertem, Danovan Mixon, Çağrı Sertel, Genco Arı, Burak Kut, Serkan Emre Çiftçi, Evrim Özsuca, Gevende, Robby Ameen, Steve Adelson, Robert Owens, Fahir Atakoğlu, Sibel Köse, Bulut Gülen, Aslı Demirer, Emre Kula, Yaşar, Işın Karaca, Ricardo Moyano, DJ U.F.U.K, Murat Uncuoğlu, Aytekin Kurt, Main Project, Demir Demirkan, Tolga Bedir, Sarp Maden, Levent Altındağ, Oğuz Büyükberber, Serkan Özyılmaz, Aycan Teztel, Volkan Öktem, Eylem Pelit, Serdar Barçın, Şenova Ülker, Çağdaş Oruç, William Cardoso, Luis Ernesto, Jozi Levi, Ringo Jets, Eskiz, Andres Denis Macias, Alex R. Contreras, and has participated in many concerts and festivals, taking the stage. Between 2012 and 2024, he participated in Gökhan Türkmen concerts as a drummer, percussionist, and in charge of backtracks, and has given over 1500 concerts. Between 2014 and 2023, he also participated in over 300 concerts with Tarkan as a percussionist in Turkey and around the world.

       Today, he continues to give concerts with Barış Ertürk under their project "Bam" since 2023.
 

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Biography

       Born in 1987 in Kırklareli, Tunç began his musical journey at the age of 8 by playing the piano. After receiving 4 years of piano and ear training from Reha Doğruöz, he was accepted into the "Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory Percussion Instruments Department" in Istanbul in 1998, where he started working with T. Mehmet Sökmen. During this period, Tunç began to explore different musical genres in addition to classical music, and in 2001, he started his professional music career with the group "Pasaporte Latino." This group had a Cuban and Brazilian repertoire and included Latin arrangements of some famous Turkish songs. He played with this group, which featured some of Turkey's most famous jazz musicians, for about 2 years. He shared the stage with names like Cengiz Baysal, Serkan Özyılmaz, Jozi Levi, Ercüment Vural, Eylem Pelit, Şenova Ülker, Aycan Teztel, Levent Altındağ, Banu Kunt, Mehmet Vurkaç, Burak Kut, and Genco Arı. He also had the opportunity to meet and play with many foreign Cuban musicians. Tunç performed in more than 50 concerts with "Pasaporte Latino" over 2 years.

      In 2001, Tunç took ethnic and Latin percussion lessons from Engin Gürkey, drum lessons from Cengiz Baysal in 2002, Latin percussion lessons from William Richard Cardoso in 2003, and harmony and big band composition lessons from Kamil Özler in 2004. His first studio recording experience was playing percussion on Ercüment Vural and Önder Focan's album "Kırmızıya Çalıyor," and he performed with the same group in more than 100 concerts and festivals between 2004 and 2006. Additionally, in 2004, he started to take an interest in electronic music. After buying his first computer, studio monitors, and borrowing a few analog synthesizers and recording equipment from around, he felt that this could become the center of his life.

      The group "Teneffüs," formed in 2004 and continuing until 2008, featured original ethnic-jazz-ambient compositions with Tunç playing the vibraphone at concerts. Their album "Sabah İçin," recorded during those years, was released in 2020. Between 2004 and 2008, he performed as a percussionist in many concerts with "Kangroove." From 2008 to 2010, he played drums and was responsible for Back Tracks in the group "Nada," performing in many concerts and festivals. He produced, arranged, and programmed synthesizers for their first album "Oda," released in 2010, and recorded many acoustic instruments for the album. Between 2005 and 2008, he worked as a percussionist with "Aşkın Arsunan Blue Print Project," a group featuring some of Turkey's best jazz musicians. He shared the stage with Volkan Öktem, Tony Jones, Duygu Tipigil, Sibel Gürsoy, Selen Beytekin, Aydın Kahya, Şenova Ülker, Aycan Teztel, Yavuz Darıdere, Çağdaş Oruç, İmer Demirer, and Keziah Jones. He performed in more than 300 concerts and festivals with this group. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a timbalero-percussionist-drummer with the "Emir Ersoy Projecto Cubano" group, participating in two separate album recordings, "10 Şarkı 10 Şarkıcı" and "Karnaval." Together with Barış Ertürk, they formed the group "Bir Gün Bir Adam," performing original compositions and giving many concerts until 2017, which eventually led to an album. He produced this album and played vibraphone, percussion, and synthesizer during the group's concerts and on the album. Additionally, with "Tork Dans" and "B.G.B.A." they realized and staged a dance project called "İzole." "B.G.B.A." composed the music for the project, with Tunç playing drum machines and synthesizers and programming some Back Tracks. Between 2004 and 2010, he performed in many concerts with groups and artists such as "Nada," "Mira," "123," "Atiye," "DJ U.F.U.K.," "Sertab Erener-Digital," "Murat Uncuoğlu," and "Ceylan Ertem." After these years, he continued to progress more in the field of electronic music. With the group "Puka," consisting of Yasemin Özler and Burak Irmak, they performed many concerts from 2011 to 2013, playing Synthpop-Electro-Disco. In this group, he played synthesizers and drums, handled Back Tracks on stage, and produced the entire project.

      Additionally, in 2011, he started working as a percussionist with Gökhan Türkmen, and in 2013, he co-produced the album "En Baştan" with the "GT Band" and arranged the song "Yaramaz". He also did synthesizer and drum programming for many songs on the album. In 2018, he played percussion on the "Synesthesia" album and did the mixing. In 2019, he arranged, produced, and mixed the "Virgül" album. All the songs in the album were featured in a vinyl album titled "11". Additionally, between 2019-2020, he worked as a musician, recording technician, mixing engineer, and producer for four singles and the vinyl album "Romantik". In the following years, he mixed and mastered over 20 songs for Gökhan Türkmen. Since 2014, he has been responsible for Back Tracks at Gökhan Türkmen's concerts and has been playing drums for the band since 2020. Between 2013-2023, he worked as a percussionist with Tarkan, participating in world tours and concerts. Some of the venues include Hammerstein Ballroom (Manhattan Centre, New York), The Novo (Los Angeles), Max Schmeling Halle (Berlin), Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle (Stuttgart), Jahrhunderthalle (Frankfurt), Mitsubishi Electric Halle (Dusseldorf), Zenith Halle (Munich), Barclaycard Arena (Hamburg), Hammersmith Apollo (London), Sap Arena (Mannheim), Holvet (Stockholm), Afas Live (Amsterdam), Wiener Stadthalle (Vienna), Samsung Halle (Zurich), and Lanxess Arena (Cologne). In 2014, he gave concerts as a percussionist and played drum machine and synthesizer in the project "Boost" with Çağrı Sertel, Volkan Öktem, and Alp Ersönmez. He did the sound design for Osman Dinç's exhibition "Noise". Between 2014-2016, he was a member of the band "Gevende", playing synthesizer and drum machine and performing at concerts. In 2015, Gevende released an acoustic concert album titled "Live at St.Antuan". Additionally, they participated in a dance project called "Ters Okyanus" with Çıplak Ayaklar, performing live music during the show. In this project, Tunç played synthesizer and drum machine and did the programming. He worked as a percussionist with Bora Uzer between 2009-2010 and played drums at both Bora Uzer and Analog People (Stimulus & Bora Uzer) concerts between 2014-2015. He played vibraphone and percussion on Aylin Zoi's albums "Mecaz" (2014) and "Aşk Biter" (2015).

      In 2016, he started working with the Dutch record label Wic Recordings and released his first electronic album "Voltage Controlled Music" in the same year. He collaborated with the artist LudoWic on one of the songs in the album. In 2017, he featured two songs in the compilation album "Square Planning Wic, Vol.1". In 2018, he released his second album "Volt.Age". He also contributed a song titled "Blue Room" to the soundtrack of the video game "Katana Zero" by Askiisoft and Devolver Digital and released a remix for the game's remix album. Furthermore, he worked as a producer, arranger, and mixing engineer on the albums of many musicians such as Ege Çubukçu, Ediz Hafızoğlu, Grogi, Didem Ertan, Soner Sarıkabadayı, DJ U.F.U.K., Aslı Demirer, Ekin Beril, Mabel Matiz, and Hakan Kalgıdım. He also released remixes under the name Tunç Çakır with artists such as Emre Kula, Hakan Kalgıdım, Miya, LudoWic, and Ekin Beril.

      In 2017, he made an electronic remix version of a song composed by Yıldız Tilbe for Ceylan Ertem's album "Yine De Amin" and the song was released on the album. In 2018, he did productions with Gökhan Türkmen, Ege Çubukçu, Grogi, and others. He produced the album "Bir Kaç Yılın Öyküsü" by Ahmet Faik Dökmeci, which was released in 2018. He played synthesizer, percussion, and vibraphone on the album and did the synthesizer programming. In 2019, he worked as a producer, arranger, mixing, and recording engineer on Gökhan Türkmen's album "Virgül". The song "Ben Unuturum" that he arranged was listened to millions of times on various sites and platforms. In the following years, he produced the 10-song album "Romantik" released in 2019. This album was also released as vinyl. In 2020, he produced the new version of the song "Nerde" performed by Mabel Matiz and Nükhet Duru. This song was listened to millions of times on digital platforms. During this period, he also worked on productions and releases with artists such as Hakan Kalgıdım, Ufuk Atar, Güler Tuncer, and Manitas.

      One of the most important albums released by Tunç Çakır, "Volt.Age", was released by the Dutch record label Wic Recordings in 2018. He was responsible for the production, music, sound design, arrangements, and recordings of this album, which also hit the shelves across Europe in cassette format. Between 2018-2023, he released many singles and EP albums. These albums include "Overdrive" (2021), "T-Bounce" (2021), "Morning Whistle" (2021), "Aquadrum" (2021), "Gliese" (2021), "Telephone (Eski Versiyon 2013)" (2022), "Seagull In The Garden" (2022), "Far" (2022), "Leakage Electricity" (2022), "Soundscapes No:1" (2023), "T-Wonderland" (2023), and "Portray" (2023). Additionally, the soundtrack album of the video game "Katana Zero" was released in vinyl format in 2021 and met with fans worldwide. The first and second pressings were completely sold out. He performed solo at various organizations and concerts in Istanbul. In one of these concerts, he performed jointly with Serkan Emre Çiftçi. This trio, consisting of Emre Nişancı, Serkan Emre Çiftçi, and himself, performed as part of MultiRaid.

      In 2021, Tunç began working as a mastering engineer and received the Apple Digital Master certification, working professionally in this field. In 2022, he handled the mixing and mastering of the recording and video of Emil Kuyumcuyan's performance of the piece "Mutatis Mutandis" by French composer Adrien Trybucki. In the same year, he did the Back Track and concert mixing and mastering for Emil Kuyumcuyan's "Better Me" project, the "Azure" album, and the "Pigeons" album released by Wic Recordings. In 2023, he mixed and mastered the "It's Not About Me" album also released by Wic Recordings. The artists for whom he did mastering include Grogi, Gökhan Türkmen, Derbaz Çoşkun, Bostancı Dayı, Barış Ertürk (Bam), Turgut Çıgı, and Ahmet Faik Dökmeci. He did the mixing, mastering, sound design, and synthesizer programming for Gökhan Türkmen's songs "Seninle Ben" released in 2022 and "Buram Buram" released in 2024.

      Additionally, this year he recorded the music for the movie "Kendi Yolumda" with the band Athena. The "Kendi Yolumda" soundtrack album was released in 2023 when the film hit theaters, and all the soundtracks were published on digital platforms.

      In 2020, Tunç once again focused on electronic music and decided to take this work to another level. Over time, his music partnerships with his brother Efe Çakır reached a much higher level due to his brother's interest in electronic engineering. Initially, they started making various equipment and instruments for their own studio and themselves. They were upgrading the equipment in the studio and adjusting it according to their needs. This adventure, which started in 2016, turned into a company named VAEMI (Volt Age Electronic Musical Instruments) in 2020. There had been personal initiatives regarding electronic music instruments and equipment in Turkey, but until recently, there was no company that had fully succeeded in entering the global market. VAEMI is a company specialized in analog synthesizers and electronic music instruments, with customers worldwide, exporting to more than 30 countries, and producing electronic designs for standalone and Eurorack systems. Tunç, together with his brother Efe, continues to work as the founder and designer of this company.

      Since 2020, he has also been giving private lessons and training in the fields of percussion and electronic music, synthesizer programming, sound design, and mixing. As VAEMI, they also organize workshops related to the making of electronic instruments, arranged by Efe Çakır.