Eliot Bates
Biographic Data
| ID | 90447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliot Bates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliot |
| FAMILY NAME | Bates |
| SIGNATURE | BATES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3012-1949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gear Culture Methods
Gear cultures are a novel kind of social formation around specific kinds of fetishised objects (e.g., recording studio equipment, digital cameras, guitar pedals, espresso machines, synthesisers, overclocked computers, mechanical keyboards). Gear typically represents technologies that nominally were made obsolete by software simulations or mass market commodities but that gained new meanings, uses and practices through transnational networks of on…
Livestreaming a doitocracy
Earth Modular Society (EMS) is a cross-platform community dedicated to live hardware modular synthesis, with their primary efforts going into a 24/7 modular “radio station” that livestreams on Twitch and YouTube, and a supporting Discord chat server. Although part of the broader modular synthesis gear culture (a large-scale social formation that coalesces around specific classes of fetishized technical objects), EMS represents a new development i…
Assembling Hyperpop
In this article, we analyze how a music genre is reciprocally defined online, through the crowdsourced 'facts' of Wikipedia. What are the traditional implicit and explicit exclusionary practices in this sort of genre formation? And how can internet-specific sociabilities create new exclusionary practices in the process of defining music? By analyzing the edit history of Wikipedia's 'hyperpop' page, we locate ongoing debates, controversies, and co…
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes
Despite a predominantly digital, 21st century music production landscape, analogue hardware professional audio technologies persist. In the discoursal throes of the leading online audio technology message forum Gearslutz, such technologies are routinely objectified, sexualized, fetishized and socialized into gear. Situated in a contemporary critical, interdisciplinary framework of fetish, masculinity and sexuality studies, this research interroga…
Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey
Reviewed by: Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey: An Ethnography of Musicultural Memory by Burcu Yıldız Eliot Bates (bio) Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey: An Ethnography of Musicultural Memory. Burcu Yıldız. Istanbuler Texte und Studien 35. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016. 187 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, mediagraphy. ISBN: 978-3-95650-165-4 (hardcover), $58.00; ISBN: 978-3-95650-207-1 (e-book), $58.00. This book is a study…
Resource ecologies, political economies and the ethics of audio technologies in the Anthropocene
Understanding how recorded and amplified stage musics contribute towards producing the Anthropocene necessitates attending to complex transnational flows of material, capital and labor, and how they coalesce into technological objects. This is complicated by the wide array of sites, practices and knowledges involved during various stages of the production process, from initial resource extraction, to smelting, component manufacturing, technology …
Vinyl as event
Why would anyone purchase expensive, natural resource-intensive, and seemingly obsolete material carriers of music when streaming providers provide unlimited access to over 40 million songs for a small monthly fee? As I will show, we can no longer assume that contemporary interest is driven solely by a collector’s market or because of the audible qualities of the vinyl listening experience, and must attend to the many ways people engage with reco…
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Who produces sound and music? And in what spaces, localities and contexts? As the production of sound and music in the 21st Century converges with multimedia, these questions are critically addressed in this new edited collection by Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound features 16 brand new articles by leading thinkers from the fields of music, audio engineering, anthropology and media. Innova…
Digital Tradition
Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture is a study of the recording and production of traditional music in Istanbul. Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry that supplies global demand for Turkish, Kurdish, Lazuri, and other Anatolian ethnic language productions. Every year, many of the largest production budgets, top 100-selling CDs, and widely distributed film and TV show so…
Alaturka
John Morgan O’Connell is one of the pre-eminent scholars conducting archival research into the music of Turkey during the late Ottoman/early Republican era. This monograph, rather than providing a general introduction to this dynamic period of Turkish music history, primarily examines debates surrounding the recorded and concert performances of Münir Nurettin Selçuk during fifteen years of the singer’s forty-year career (ignoring, for the most pa…
The Social Life of Musical Instruments
Research Article| September 01 2012 The Social Life of Musical Instruments Eliot Bates Eliot Bates Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2012) 56 (3): 363-395. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.3.0363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
The World Map of Music
Book Review| October 01 2010 The World Map of Music: The Edison Phonograph and the Musical Cartography of the Earth The World Map of Music: The Edison Phonograph and the Musical Cartography of the Earth, produced by Ulrich Wegner. CD-ROM, 2007. Distributed by the Ethnologisches Museum SMB (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Arnimallee 27, D-14195, Berlin. http://www.smb.museum/smb/. Eliot Bates Eliot Bates Cornell University Search for other works by …
Mixing for Parlak and Bowing for a Büyük Ses
I n this paper I explore the production aesthetics that define the sound of most arranged traditional music albums produced in the early 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey. I will focus on two primary aesthetic characteristics, the achievement of which consume much of the labor put into tracking and mixing: parlak (“shine”) and buyuk ses (“big sound”). Parlak, at its most basic, consists of a pronounced high frequency boost and a pattern of harmonic disto…
The Social Life of Musical Instruments
Research Article| September 01 2012 The Social Life of Musical Instruments Eliot Bates Eliot Bates Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2012) 56 (3): 363-395. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.3.0363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
Digital Tradition
Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture is a study of the recording and production of traditional music in Istanbul. Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry that supplies global demand for Turkish, Kurdish, Lazuri, and other Anatolian ethnic language productions. Every year, many of the largest production budgets, top 100-selling CDs, and widely distributed film and TV show so…
Resource ecologies, political economies and the ethics of audio technologies in the Anthropocene
Understanding how recorded and amplified stage musics contribute towards producing the Anthropocene necessitates attending to complex transnational flows of material, capital and labor, and how they coalesce into technological objects. This is complicated by the wide array of sites, practices and knowledges involved during various stages of the production process, from initial resource extraction, to smelting, component manufacturing, technology …
Vinyl as event
Why would anyone purchase expensive, natural resource-intensive, and seemingly obsolete material carriers of music when streaming providers provide unlimited access to over 40 million songs for a small monthly fee? As I will show, we can no longer assume that contemporary interest is driven solely by a collector’s market or because of the audible qualities of the vinyl listening experience, and must attend to the many ways people engage with reco…
Mixing for Parlak and Bowing for a Büyük Ses
I n this paper I explore the production aesthetics that define the sound of most arranged traditional music albums produced in the early 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey. I will focus on two primary aesthetic characteristics, the achievement of which consume much of the labor put into tracking and mixing: parlak (“shine”) and buyuk ses (“big sound”). Parlak, at its most basic, consists of a pronounced high frequency boost and a pattern of harmonic disto…
Assembling Hyperpop
In this article, we analyze how a music genre is reciprocally defined online, through the crowdsourced 'facts' of Wikipedia. What are the traditional implicit and explicit exclusionary practices in this sort of genre formation? And how can internet-specific sociabilities create new exclusionary practices in the process of defining music? By analyzing the edit history of Wikipedia's 'hyperpop' page, we locate ongoing debates, controversies, and co…
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Who produces sound and music? And in what spaces, localities and contexts? As the production of sound and music in the 21st Century converges with multimedia, these questions are critically addressed in this new edited collection by Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound features 16 brand new articles by leading thinkers from the fields of music, audio engineering, anthropology and media. Innova…
The World Map of Music
Book Review| October 01 2010 The World Map of Music: The Edison Phonograph and the Musical Cartography of the Earth The World Map of Music: The Edison Phonograph and the Musical Cartography of the Earth, produced by Ulrich Wegner. CD-ROM, 2007. Distributed by the Ethnologisches Museum SMB (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Arnimallee 27, D-14195, Berlin. http://www.smb.museum/smb/. Eliot Bates Eliot Bates Cornell University Search for other works by …
Mixing for Parlak and Bowing for a Büyük Ses
I n this paper I explore the production aesthetics that define the sound of most arranged traditional music albums produced in the early 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey. I will focus on two primary aesthetic characteristics, the achievement of which consume much of the labor put into tracking and mixing: parlak (“shine”) and buyuk ses (“big sound”). Parlak, at its most basic, consists of a pronounced high frequency boost and a pattern of harmonic disto…
The Social Life of Musical Instruments
Research Article| September 01 2012 The Social Life of Musical Instruments Eliot Bates Eliot Bates Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2012) 56 (3): 363-395. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.3.0363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
Alaturka
John Morgan O’Connell is one of the pre-eminent scholars conducting archival research into the music of Turkey during the late Ottoman/early Republican era. This monograph, rather than providing a general introduction to this dynamic period of Turkish music history, primarily examines debates surrounding the recorded and concert performances of Münir Nurettin Selçuk during fifteen years of the singer’s forty-year career (ignoring, for the most pa…
Digital Tradition
Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture is a study of the recording and production of traditional music in Istanbul. Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry that supplies global demand for Turkish, Kurdish, Lazuri, and other Anatolian ethnic language productions. Every year, many of the largest production budgets, top 100-selling CDs, and widely distributed film and TV show so…
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Who produces sound and music? And in what spaces, localities and contexts? As the production of sound and music in the 21st Century converges with multimedia, these questions are critically addressed in this new edited collection by Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound features 16 brand new articles by leading thinkers from the fields of music, audio engineering, anthropology and media. Innova…
Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey
Reviewed by: Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey: An Ethnography of Musicultural Memory by Burcu Yıldız Eliot Bates (bio) Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey: An Ethnography of Musicultural Memory. Burcu Yıldız. Istanbuler Texte und Studien 35. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016. 187 pp., illustrations, photographs, bibliography, mediagraphy. ISBN: 978-3-95650-165-4 (hardcover), $58.00; ISBN: 978-3-95650-207-1 (e-book), $58.00. This book is a study…
Resource ecologies, political economies and the ethics of audio technologies in the Anthropocene
Understanding how recorded and amplified stage musics contribute towards producing the Anthropocene necessitates attending to complex transnational flows of material, capital and labor, and how they coalesce into technological objects. This is complicated by the wide array of sites, practices and knowledges involved during various stages of the production process, from initial resource extraction, to smelting, component manufacturing, technology …
Vinyl as event
Why would anyone purchase expensive, natural resource-intensive, and seemingly obsolete material carriers of music when streaming providers provide unlimited access to over 40 million songs for a small monthly fee? As I will show, we can no longer assume that contemporary interest is driven solely by a collector’s market or because of the audible qualities of the vinyl listening experience, and must attend to the many ways people engage with reco…
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes
Despite a predominantly digital, 21st century music production landscape, analogue hardware professional audio technologies persist. In the discoursal throes of the leading online audio technology message forum Gearslutz, such technologies are routinely objectified, sexualized, fetishized and socialized into gear. Situated in a contemporary critical, interdisciplinary framework of fetish, masculinity and sexuality studies, this research interroga…
Assembling Hyperpop
In this article, we analyze how a music genre is reciprocally defined online, through the crowdsourced 'facts' of Wikipedia. What are the traditional implicit and explicit exclusionary practices in this sort of genre formation? And how can internet-specific sociabilities create new exclusionary practices in the process of defining music? By analyzing the edit history of Wikipedia's 'hyperpop' page, we locate ongoing debates, controversies, and co…
Gear Culture Methods
Gear cultures are a novel kind of social formation around specific kinds of fetishised objects (e.g., recording studio equipment, digital cameras, guitar pedals, espresso machines, synthesisers, overclocked computers, mechanical keyboards). Gear typically represents technologies that nominally were made obsolete by software simulations or mass market commodities but that gained new meanings, uses and practices through transnational networks of on…
Livestreaming a doitocracy
Earth Modular Society (EMS) is a cross-platform community dedicated to live hardware modular synthesis, with their primary efforts going into a 24/7 modular “radio station” that livestreams on Twitch and YouTube, and a supporting Discord chat server. Although part of the broader modular synthesis gear culture (a large-scale social formation that coalesces around specific classes of fetishized technical objects), EMS represents a new development i…
Art (8 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Musical (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)