Eda Er

Eda Er is a composer, new media artist, and vocalist working in embodied technofeminism. She builds responsive instruments from voice, material practice, and computation, most recently a live augmented instrument made from the Turkish marbling tray, and performs them herself.

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 the University of Strasbourg and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (CRR). Her current project, Fluid Narratives, rebuilds Turkish marbling (ebru) as a live augmented 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

• May 26I Kept the Voice You Left Behind — Unerhörte Musik, Berlin (Nicholas Isherwood, premiere)
• Jun 8The Ceremony of Almost Saying — CRR de Strasbourg (Ana Zelinkova, Émilie Wendling, Eda Er, premiere)
• Jun 23La Confluence — Abeceda Festival, Bled, Slovenia (premiere)
• Jun 26Echopraxia — GMEM, Marseille (Collective Lovemusic, premiere)
• Jun 27I Kept the Voice You Left Behind — Yeldeğirmeni Sanat, Istanbul (Istanbul premiere)
• Jul 9Trio — Richten25, Berlin (Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Michael Griener)
• Sep 12Un Rituel pour Oublier — Festival Ensemble(s), Théâtre L’Échangeur, Bagnolet (Ensemble Multilatérale commission, premiere)
• Oct 3Happily Ever After — Wigmore Hall, London (Schallfeld Ensemble, “Voices of Today”)

• 2025–26Instructions for Not Disappearing — Soprano, Ebru instrument, electronics, video
• 2026The Ceremony of Almost Saying — Voice, cl., euphonium, Ebru instrument, electronics, video
• 2024Beyond the Pacific Ocean — Orchestra · SF Contemporary Music Players
• 2023In This Cosmic Dance, Our Spirits Accrue — Voice solo · Royaumont
• 2022Too Much of a Woman — Solo voice, electronics, objects, video
• 2021The Year Without Summer — Orchestra · Antwerp Symphony