Photo: Carter Jerry Qi · The Lab, San Francisco
Eda Er is a contemporary classical composer, multimedia artist, and vocalist. Her work spans live electronics, audiovisual performance, and extended vocal techniques, exploring embodiment, feminist storytelling, and the relationship between sound, image, and physical gesture.
A PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley (CNMAT / BCNM), she is the 2025–26 George Ladd Prix de Paris Fellow and 2025–27 Visiting Doctoral Researcher at HEAR Strasbourg. Her current project, Fluid Narratives, transforms the traditional Turkish art of Ebru into a performative instrument for live composition.
“A scenography and the darkness of the space… a kind of sanctuary prefiguring some morbid sacrifice… catching the eye as much as the ear.” Michèle Tosi, ResMusica · Festival de Royaumont, 2023