Recording studio gear cultures
Bates, Eliot, and Samantha Bennett. 2025. Gear: Cultures of Music and Audio Technologies. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Bates, Eliot, and Samantha Bennett. 2022. “Look at All Those Big Knobs! Online Audio Technology Discourse and Sexy Gear Fetishes.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 28 (5): 1241–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221104445.
Bates, Eliot. 2020. “Resource Ecologies, Political Economies and the Ethics of Audio Technologies in the Anthropocene.” Popular Music 39 (1): 66–87.
Modular synthesis gear cultures
Bates, Eliot. 2026. “Livestreaming a Doitocracy: Platform-Jumping Participatory Practices in Modular Synthesis Gear Cultures.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565261417339
Troitski, Arseni, and Eliot Bates. 2024. “Grid Culture.” In Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People, edited by Ezra Teboul, Andreas Kitzmann, and Einar Engström, 205–24. London: Routledge.
Bates, Eliot. 2023. “Feeling Analogue: Using Modular Synthesisers, Designing Synthesis Communities.” In Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments, edited by Steven Cottrell, 54–73. New York: Routledge.
Bates, Eliot. 2022. “La Musique Dans Les Cultures Tech. La Synthèse Modulaire En Temps de Covid-19.” Translated by Emmanuelle Olivier. Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie 35:225–43.
Bates, Eliot. 2021. “The Interface and Instrumentality of Eurorack Modular Synthesis.” In Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies, edited by Christophe Levaux and Antoine Hennion, 170–88. London: Routledge.