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Welcome to eliotbates.com! This site covers my teaching, recording, and academic work.
You can find out more about my electronic and electro-acoustic creative work at musiq.com.
academic work
I teach ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and have a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the
University of California, Berkeley, where I wrote a dissertation entitled
Social Interactions, Musical Arrangement, and the Production of Digital Audio in Istanbul Recording Studios (click here for the abstract).
Besides my research into Turkish contemporary music making (particularly, the music industry centered in Istanbul, and the production of traditional/folk/art musics in the recording studio context),
I have also published papers on aesthetic issues in contemporary electronic music movements.
With Graham St. John, I created the dancecult.net website, featuring a comprehensive collaborative bibliography of electronic dance music,
alongside annotated web resources and an EDM scholar listing service. We're also launching Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture,
the world's first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the research of EDM: the first issue will be going live in the summer of 2009.
performances and musical activity
I've been playing the 'ud (oud, al-'ud) for 17 years, during which time 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 specializing in Turkish,
Ottoman, Arab, Persian classical, Armenian, Greek rebetic and folk, Romani and more experimental forms. 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 compositions/performances include my solo project Kaderci, and duet collaborations under the name Warrior Caste.
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