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Welcome to eliotbates.com! This site is the next generation of my informational sites at wesleyan and berkeley, covering my
teaching, recording, and academic work.
You can find out more about my electronic and electro-acoustic creative work at
musiq.com, myspace [basquerole] and 3spell.com, too.
academic work
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at the Music Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
I've published papers on aesthetic issues in contemporary electronic music movements, and spoken at colloquia and conferences about the Turkish recording industry and broader issues of mediation in music recording practices.
With Graham St. John, I created the dancecult.net website, which includes a comprehensive collaborative bibliography of electronic dance music, annotated web resources, and scholar listing service.
I'm finishing up a doctorate dissertation entitled Interactions, Networks, and the Production of Digital Audio in an Istanbul Recording Studio based on 2 years of research in Turkey,
where I am investigating innovations in traditional/folk music performance practice (particularly, "Karadeniz" music forms) that emerged from specific problems in the act of recording and the context of the recording studio.
I presented some of my findings at conferences and universities in Turkey, and am working on a number of research articles (in English and Turkish).
my performances and musical activity
On the performance side, I've been playing the 'ud (oud, al-'ud) for 16 years, during which I've developed a distinctive contemporary style influenced by Anatolian traditional musics (Anadolu halk müzik) and Ottoman art music (Osman sanat müzik).
Over the years, I've performed and recorded extensively in North America and Turkey with groups doing Turkish, Ottoman, Arab, Persian classical, Armenian, Greek rebetic and folk, Romani and more experimental forms.
Currently, I'm consumed with solo performances, playing in the Bay Area-based group Kervan, and fronting the Istanbul-based group I founded in 2006 called Nerelisin (formerly Eliot Bates and the Kaliforniya Saz Arkadaslari).
If you want to keep up with the websites I've been reading the most, check out my del.icio.us links. Please stop on by!
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