Bates, Eliot

Eliot Bates is an ethnomusicologist and technology studies scholar who researches recording production and the social lives of musical instruments and studio technologies. A UC Berkeley graduate and ACLS New Faculty Fellow, he is currently on the faculty of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He 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). He has contributed to over 80 albums and film scores as an engineer, producer or studio musician.