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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.
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