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Eda Er is a contemporary classical composer, new media artist, and vocalist. Her work spans live electronics, audiovisual and multimedia performance, and extended vocal techniques, exploring embodiment, feminist storytelling, and the relationship between sound, image, and physical gesture. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley (CNMAT/BCNM) and recipient of the Prix de Paris. Her music has been performed internationally by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Multilatérale, Ensemble Crash, and the Nordic Trombone Quartet.

Eda Er is a contemporary classical composer, new media artist, and vocalist working at the intersection of live electronics, audiovisual performance, and feminist storytelling. Her practice develops works in which sound functions as a narrative agent — shaping the experience of time, space, and identity through immersive and interdisciplinary forms. Her compositions integrate extended vocal techniques, electronic sound, and visual media, often placing the performer within systems that blur the boundaries between instrument, body, and environment.

A central focus of her current work is Fluid Narratives, an interdisciplinary research project that transforms the traditional Turkish art of Ebru (marbling) into a performative instrument for live composition. Combining live video, multichannel sound, and algorithmic processes, the system translates physical gesture into sonic and visual structures in real time — proposing alternative models in which material processes and embodied actions function as compositional frameworks. Her background in chemistry informs this material approach: surface tension, viscosity, and pigment suspension are treated as compositional parameters.

Her work draws on feminist new media studies, postcolonial theory, and the philosophy of technology to interrogate what it means to compose with systems that remember, listen, and respond. She is particularly interested in the design of augmented instruments as sites of feminist practice — tools that reconfigure the relationship between performer, material, and audience.

Eda Er is currently completing her PhD in Music Composition with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at the University of California, Berkeley (CNMAT / BCNM). She is the recipient of the Prix de Paris and Chercheuse doctorale invitée at the Université de Strasbourg. Her work has been performed internationally by ensembles and institutions including the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Multilatérale, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Crash, Ensemble Musikfabrik, and the Nordic Trombone Quartet. Recent 2026 premieres include Echopraxia (GMEM, Marseille), The Ceremony of Almost Saying (HEAR, Strasbourg), I Kept the Voice You Left Behind (Berlin · Istanbul, Nicholas Isherwood), and Instructions for Not Disappearing (CCRMA Stanford · ZKM Karlsruhe). She also performs as ΞDΛ, an experimental dark-pop project that extends her compositional practice into electronic audiovisual performance.