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academic work
I'm an ethnomusicologist specializing in digital audio recording cultures and the production of contemporary music in Istanbul, Turkey. My book
Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture was published by Oxford University press.
I teach at Cornell University in the music department in conjunction with the Society for the Humanities
(a position made possible through a 2-year New Faculty Fellows postdoc from ACLS). I taught at the
University of Maryland, College Park, and did my Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Besides my research into Turkish contemporary music making (particularly, the music industry centered in Istanbul, and the production of traditional - folk - art musics in recording studios),
I have also published papers on aesthetic issues in contemporary electronic music movements.
Along with Graham St. John, I confounded the dancecult.net collaborative bibliography project and the open source, peer-reviewed journal entitled
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
performances and musical activity
I've been playing the 'ud (oud, al-'ud) since 1992, during which time I've developed a distinctive contemporary style influenced by Anatolian traditional musics
(Anadolu halk müzik) and Ottoman art music (Klasik Türk müzik). Over the years, I've performed and recorded extensively in North America, Europe and Turkey
with groups specializing in Turkish, Ottoman, Arab, Persian classical, Armenian, Greek rebetika, Roman oyun havasi -- and more experimental forms.
Since Fall 2009 I've been collaborating with David Tibet and Current 93 for the albums Baalstorm: Sing Omega,
Honeysuckle Æeons and the supporting European tours.
I also perform with the Cornell Middle Eastern & Mediterannean Music Ensemble and CAGE (the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble).
Some of the groups I've fronted include
Nerelisin (formerly Eliot Bates and the Kaliforniya Saz Arkadaslari) and 3spell, and I've also performed extensively
with Kinetik Trance, Kervan, Basquerole, Farabi, and Zambra.
My electroacoustic work includes my solo project Kaderci, and duet collaborations under the name Warrior Caste.
upcoming events
Voicings: "Denk and Renk: The (digital) Aesthetics of Balance and Color In Contemporary Arranged Anatolian Folk Music ". American Anthropological Association conference (Montreal), November 16, 2011, at 2:15 (session# 02-0305).
Voicings: "What Studios Do." Art of Record Production conference (San Francisco), December 4, 2011.
Soundings: performance with the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble at Lincoln Hall, December 1, 12:30 PM
Voicings: University of Rochester, music department colloquium series (title TBA), February 16, 2012.
recent events
Voicings: "Sensoriums of the Recording Studio: Arranger, Engineer, Studio Musician". Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center, October 4, 2011
Voicings: Lecture-demonstration of Turkish oud music. Boston University, October 5, 2011.
Soundings: Ithaca Soundscape Project solo inaugural performance as part of the Society for Humanities annual conference "Sounding cultures: from performance to politics"
Soundings: Ithaca Soundscape Project group performance, and concert with CAGE. Johnson Art Museum (Ithaca, NY), October 30, 2011.
recent multimedia work
Current 93 at Katowice's OFF Festival - complete audio recording, and concert footage on youtube
With the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble at the State of the Art Festival (audio recording)
Solo performance at the George Mason University Noise-a-Thon, organized by Thomas Stanley
Niemandswasser and Invocation live @ the HMV Forum (with Current 93)
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