He produced programs of electronic music and social commentary for the noncommercial New York radio station WBAI.
He studied under the composer Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
In 1959 he settled in New York.
He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records, and created his own record label there, Finnadar Records.
He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Gungo Mimaroglu, and his stepson, Rustem Batum.
He was a music critic and radio producer in Turkey. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to study musicology and composition at Columbia University in New York City. He studied under Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music CEnter and privately with Edgard Varese and Stefan Wolpe. He returned to Turkey and returned to New York City in 1959.
Son of architect, MImar Kemaleddin Bey, who died shortly after his birth.