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  • We see 7 rectangles , portraits of composers, stacked on top of each other, three above showing Angélica Negrón, inti figgis-vizueta and Rose Bond, four below showing Leilehua Lanzilotti, Gabriel Kahane, Nathalie Joachim and Alev Lenz.
    2022-08-16

    Roomful Of Teeth and Friends !

    I am delighted to join Roomful Of Teeth at their residency this year at MassMoca as once of their composers for new work. Which they will indeed perform for the very first time tomorrow at MassMoca (aka the most awesome place).

    Read a little about the residency here: Berkshire Eagle

    And find some more info about the show here: MassMoca.org

    For my pieces we needed planetary tuning forks as they are not in concert pitch and we need to tune to the planets instead. The image you can see below is a resonator I have built just for this...

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  • 2022-06-24

    Anoushka's wonderful new single

    The incomparable Anoshka Shankar has a new song out today, announcing an upcoming album!
    The song Land of Gold (originally the title-track of her 2016 Grammy-nominated album) is out now in a lush new orchestral avatar via Leiter Verlag.

    Credits:
    Performed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago, Metropole Orkest and conductor Jules Buckley.
    Composed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago and me
    New orchestral arrangement by: Jules Buckley

    Enjoy and also find it on my collabs Spotify playlist which is ever growing and changing!

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  • 2022-06-17

    'Eggshell' movie debut!

    If you catch this movie, see if you can spot my song 'Eggshell' ! How very fitting for it to appear in a movie about Peter Pan and growing up - or not ;)
    The Lost Girls directed by Livia De Paolis starring Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen, Julian Ovenden, Louis Partridge and more is out now! And 'Eggshell' is here (or any other of your favorite streaming service)!

  • We see a white ampersand on a red circular background and in bolx black letters next to it the company name Wise Music group while group is italic and not bold
    2022-05-31

    I signed a thing

    I am delighted to join the Bosworth and Wise music international family and such an inspiring, impressive and diverse roster. I wish that together we further connect my musical worlds and expand the network of connections to spark new and exciting musical electricity!

    Read more at CMU (EN) or MusikWoche (DE).

    xx
    Alev

  • Full moon in a red tint on a black sky, in handwriting written acorss 'What If I wait for tomorrow?'
    2022-05-13

    What If I Wait Lyric Video OUT NOW!

    It's here! The lyric video for "What If I Wait" is here!

    The movie’s title theme is visually captured by Amy Chiniara, Illustrator & graphic designer and Ali J. Dalloul, Editor, filmmaker and video essayist, from Beirut in an incredibly touching piece of work.

    Amy Chiniara is a Lebanese freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Beirut. She works on different projects, from layout, to poster and logo design, and editorial illustration and comics. She recently animated a music video for Palestinian artist Ruba Shamshoum for her song “Winti Hon”.

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  • A collage of different images, most prominent in the middle a New York traffic light on it's head, we can read half the street sign saying WAY on it's head - cut out letters M I L K Y on top of the rest of the street sign creating the album name Milky Way. To the right we see tiles with animals to the left part of a flower and diamonds, the edges of the images colored with purple paint. There is glitter all across the image and a starry night image to the back.
    2022-04-12

    Milky Way is OUT TODAY!

    ‘Milky Way’ is here!!!! This record was born out of the search for healing and friendship, kinship …
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  • water, a black to brownish tint, light reflections on the water, light rays to the bottom left. White text with glitch on the lower half, central reads ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK above the movie’s title IM NACHTLICHT and underneath MUSIC BY ALEV LENZ
    2022-04-07

    Im Nachtlicht OUT TODAY!

    Whooo this is very exciting! My very first feature lenght score is OUT TODAY! It is called 'Im …
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  • 2022-04-02

    World Soundtrack Academy

    Thanks so much to the World Soundtrack Academy for welcoming me into their international community of composers for screen and film music industry professionals! Check out my profile here!

  • An aerial shot of three fully dressed people lying on a bed forming a trianhle, above it the title
    2022-03-17

    Funeral For A Dog

    My song 'Pieces' from my album '3' is in this! It was very meaningful how director Barbara Albert placed the song in her episodes and a pleasure to get to work together again after her 2012 film "The Dead and The Living". Watch and listen to 'Pieces' here and find the series 'Funeral For A Dog' here. Read more for the direct video access and a lovely scan of...

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  • 2022-03-09

    Collaborations Break the Ice

    Hi all!
    Last week, Against The Ice was released on Netlfix and you can hear my vocals on it. I have worked with Volker quite a bit over the recent years and recently made a little playlist called Collaborations make the Heart Grow Fonder to collect some of the work - with Volker and more wonderful colleagues. Enjoy!