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modular synthesis, audio engineering, recording technology, music in Turkey, ethnomusicology, organology, production
United States, United Kingdom

Biography

Eliot Bates, an ethnomusicologist by training, has contributed new approaches to the study of music’s instruments, materialities, technologies, infrastructures, and production workflows. From 2004-2016 Bates researched these within Istanbul’s recording studios, luthieries and music industry; since 2013, the work has broadened geographically to consider European, North American and Australian audio technology gear cultures. Committed to social science and ethnographic methods, Bates also incorporates an experimental practice-led research design, whether that entails their ongoing studio-based audio engineering work, collaborative recordings featuring the ud, Eurorack performances for the New York Modular Society, and microtonal electronic music productions as the artist Makamqore. Bates has authored two books: Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul’s Recording Studio Culture (OUP, 2016), and Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (OUP, 2011), and with Samantha Bennett coedited Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Before joining the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center Bates taught at the University of Birmingham (UK), at Cornell University (as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow and adjunct fellow of the Society for the Humanities), and at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Activities

Employment (5)

CUNY The Graduate Center: New York, NY, US

2020-06 to present | Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology (Music)
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The Graduate Center, CUNY: New York, New York, US

2017-08-01 to 2020-05 | Assistant Professor (Ethnomusicology)
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University of Birmingham: Birmingham, Birmingham, GB

2013-01 to 2017-07-30 | Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies (Music)
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Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, US

2010-07 to 2012-05 | ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Music (Society for the Humanities)
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University of Maryland at College Park: College Park, MD, US

2008-08 to 2010-06 | Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology (Music)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2002-08 to 2008-06 | PhD in Music (Music)
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Wesleyan University: Middletown, CT, US

1995-08 to 1997-06 | MA in Ethnomusicology and Interactive Computer Media (Music)
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University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

1990-09 to 1994-06 | BM in Music Composition (Music)
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Professional activities (2)

Society for Asian Music: Ithaca, NY, US

2017-11 to 2021-05-01 | Vice President
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Society for Ethnomusicology: Bloomington, IN, US

2014 to 2016 | Treasurer
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Funding (3)

Social interactions, networks, and the production of digital audio in an Istanbul recording studio

2006-06 to 2007-03 | Grant
American Research Institute in Turkey (Philadelphia, PA, US)
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Fulbright IIE dissertation research grant

2005-09 to 2006-05 | Grant
Fulbright Commission (Washington, DC, US)
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Turkish Ministry of Education Higher Education Grant

2005-09 to 2006-05 | Grant
Turkish Ministry of Education (Ankara, TR, Middle East, TR)
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Works (31)

Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia

Cultural Sociology
2024-09-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1749-9755
Part of ISSN: 1749-9763
Contributors: Eliot Bates; Sophie Delphis; Rômulo de Carvalho Moraes Barbosa; Julia Santoli
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Technological and Methodological Assemblages: Analyzing the Production of Culture in Istanbul’s Recording Studios

Ethnography of Recording Studios
2024-04-13 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788896445273
Contributors: Eliot Bates
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Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Eliot Bates; Samantha Bennett
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The interface and instrumentality of Eurorack modular synthesis

Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies
2021-05 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780429268830
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Agency and Contemporary Recording Production

The Oxford Handbook of the Creative Process in Music
2020-07-09 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780190636197
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Resource ecologies, political economies and the ethics of audio technologies in the Anthropocene

Popular Music
2020-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0261-1430
Part of ISSN: 1474-0095
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Recording Studios since 1970

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production
2020-02-06 | Book chapter
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Technological Encounters in the Interculturality of Istanbul’s Recording Studios

El Oído Pensante
2019 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2250-7116
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Vinyl as event: Record Store Day and the value-vibrant matter nexus

Journal of Cultural Economy
2019-09-23 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1753-0350
Part of ISSN: 1753-0369
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Actor-Network Theory and Organology

Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society
2019-03 | Journal article
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Producing TV Series Music in Istanbul

Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
2018 | Book chapter
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The Production of Music and Sound: A Multidisciplinary Critique

Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
2018 | Book chapter
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Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

Bloomsbury Academic
2018-01 | Edited book
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Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture

Oxford University Press
2016 | Book
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Simon Zagorski-Thomas , The Musicology of Record Production (review)

Twentieth-Century Music
2016-09 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 1478-5722
Part of ISSN: 1478-5730
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Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music (1923–1938) by John Morgan O’Connell (review)

Music and Letters
2015-08 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 1477-4631
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Music, Mobility and Distributed Recording Production in Turkish Protest Music

Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies
2014 | Book chapter
Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia, ed. by David D. Harnish and Anne K. Rasmussen (review)

Indonesia
2013 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 2164-8654
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Popular Music Studies and the Problems of Sound, Society and Method

IASPM@Journal
2013 | Journal article
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2079-3871

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music.

World of Music-New Series
2012 | Journal article
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0043-8774

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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The Social Life of Musical Instruments

Ethnomusicology
2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.3.0363

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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What Studios Do

Journal on the Art of Record Production
2012 | Journal article
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1754-9892

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Global Music Series
2011 | Book
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9780195394146

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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Recorded Music: Performance, Culture and Technology

Notes
2011 | Journal article
Part of ISSN:

0027-4380

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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Mixing for Parlak and Bowing for a Buyuk Ses: The Aesthetics of Arranged Traditional Music in Turkey

Ethnomusicology
2010 | Journal article
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10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.1.0081

Part of ISSN:

0014-1836

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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The World Map of Music: The Edison Phonograph and the Musical Cartography of the Earth

Ethnomusicology
2010 | Journal article
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0014-1836

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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West Asia

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
2010 | Other
Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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Ron’s Right Arm: Tactility, Visualization, And The Synesthesia Of Audio Engineering

Journal on the Art of Record Production
2009 | Journal article
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1754-9892

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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Social Interactions, Musical Arrangement, and the Production of Digital Audio in Istanbul Recording Studios

Music
2008 | Supervised student publication
Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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"You better work": Underground dance music in New York City.

Ethnomusicology
2005 | Journal article
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0014-1836

Contributors: Bates, E
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Glitches, Bugs, and Hisses: The Degeneration of Musical Recordings and the Contemporary Musical Work

Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate
2004 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN:

9780415943659

Contributors: Bates, Eliot
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