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Istanbul, where Europe meets Asia, is known as a cosmopolitan city that is pulsing with life. Now the Turkish composer Mehmet Erhan Tanman has taken the sounds of the city and transformed it into an orchestral work called "Traffic". Now it’s about to debut at the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Arts.21 met the young composer and the youth orchestra that will be performing his work during rehearsals in Istanbul.