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Ali Berkok composes, designs sound, and plays piano and keyboards. He has produced six albums as a leader for jazz outfit Arkana Music, and later, electro-acoustic ambient improvising group Aurochs. His solo piano album, Never Get Lost for Long, features reinvented jazz standards (“Cheek to Cheek,” Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”) and spontaneous extemporized compositions.
His music for the screen includes a self-produced chamber score for Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, short film Advances, and the comedy series You’re Never Alone (Thought4Food).
Berkok’s sound design and composition credits for theatre include Carol Shields’ 13 Hands (Alumnae), Marina & The Cryptids (Silent Protagonist), What I Call Her (Crows) and Unsafe (Canadian Stage). As well, as a more recent Ottawa mainstay, he has created music and sound for The Unplugging, Benevolence, and Beowulf in Afghanistan (GCTC).
Chief amongst his research interests is polytemporality, the simultaneous presence of two or more asynchronous rhythmic layers, for creative effects such as destabilizing listeners’ sense of pulse. Berkok holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto.
Throughout his career, Berkok has engaged in deeper collaborations or briefer sideperson appearances with Rez Abbasi, Kiran Ahluwalia, Dave Barton, Jane Bunnett, Alex Dean, Yoon Sun Choi, Andrew Downing, Nick Fraser, John Geggie, Kurt Elling, Jamie Holmes, Mike Murley, Don Palmer, Sage Reynolds, Greg Runions, Gerri Trimble, Peter Van Huffel, Pete Woods.
