Salih Demirtaş

Tel: +90 212 293 60 67 / 119
Mail: demirtas@oiist.org

Salih Demirtaş has worked for the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) project as a research associate at the Orient-Institut Istanbul since September 2019. He is a PhD candidate in the Musicology and Music Theory program at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and studying the auditory history of Istanbul (1623-1774) grounded on acoustemological and multisensorial approaches. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the IMS Study Group “Auditory History” with Tin Cugelj (University of Bern). Demirtaş received his MA degree in ethnomusicology at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) at ITU in 2019 with his thesis “Critical Edition of Hampartsum Manuscript YZPER2 in the Private Archive of Ali Rifat Çağatay”. He also holds a BA in journalism and received a sound engineering education at SAE Amsterdam. He is an editor in the Turkish Music Academic Circle (TUMAC) and researcher at ITU Ottoman-Turkish Music Research Group (OTMAG).

  • Historical musicology
  • History & historiography of Turkish music
  • Manuscript studies: codicology, paleography, iconography and art history
  • Historical sound studies: auditory history, historical acoustemology

03.01.2024: “Seyr ü temâşâ: Evliya Çelebi’nin İstanbul’a Dair Çok-duyulu Atmosferleri”. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi İstanbul Devlet Konservatuarı Müzikoloji Bölümü Etnomüzikoloji Anabilim Dalı Seminerleri. Istanbul, Turkey.

13.10.2023: “Seyr ü temâşâ: Evliya Çelebi’s Multisensorial Atmospheres on Istanbul”. Atmospheres – Multisensorial research in Istanbul: Artistic and academic research in Dialogue. Orient-Institut Istanbul, Turkey.

21.09.2023: “Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Music Manuscripts” at the Orient-Institut Istanbul Panel on “Materiality in Textual Studies”. GTOT Turkologentag 2023: The Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies. University of Vienna, Austria.

25.08.2023: “Hearing Sonic Memories of Evliyâ Çelebi: Ottoman Guilds of Seventeenth-century Istanbul”. Sound, Language and the Making of Urban Space conference. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

29.06.2023: “Sensory Experiences of Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul”. EMSE 2023: Early Modern Sensory Encounters conference. Kellogg College – University of Oxford & The Open University, UK.

24.08.2022 (with Nihan Tahtaişleyen): “The Example of the Ottoman Context: Historical Transcriptions of Performative Repertoires across Ethnic Borders and Borders of Time”, Roundtable respondent at the 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Athens-Greece.

23.08.2022: “Attributions to Acemler in the Ottoman Notational Sources”, Study Session “Persian Music in Foreign Sources” chaired by Judith I. Haug at 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Athens-Greece.

22.06.2022 [with Dr. Neslihan Demirkol): “Osmanlı Müziğinin Tarihi Kaynakları Üzerine Uluslararası Bir Proje: Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae”, Uzaktan Kısa Kısa Akademik No. 99 (Online Lecture), 22 June 2022.

30.05.2022 (with Dr. Esther Voswinckel Filiz): Chair of the workshop Experience of a City: Multisensorial Approaches to Past and Present. Orient-Institut Istanbul, online.

28.10.2021: “Aesthetics and Semiotics of Mevlevi Ayin Tradition In The Corpus of Turkish Makam Music”, “Sacred Music of Istanbul – Special Topics in Middle Eastern Musics” undergraduate course supervised by Alexander Khalil (Online Lecture), School of Film, Music and Theatre – University College Cork, Ireland.

29.05.2021: “Hamparsum Yazmaları Üzerine Edisyon Kritik Çalışmaları”. Müzikte Değişim Çevrimiçi Sempozyumu. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü Geleneksel Türk Müzikleri Anabilim Dalı (online).

7.5.2021: With Prof. Ruhi Ayangil. „Cemil Bey’in Taksimi Işığında Mukayeseli Bir Kuram ve Uygulama Modeli Olarak Irak Makamının Yapısı Ve Seyir Özellikleri„, Uluslararası Üstâd-ı Cihân Tanbûrî Cemil Bey Çevrimiçi Sempozyumu, Türk Müziği Akademik Çevresi.

5.02.2021: „Historical Resonances of Nichori„, MIAM Online Colloquium 2020 Fall: Current Research In Music, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi.

4.02.2021: “Critical Report on the Ongoing CMO Edition of TR-Iam 1537”, CMO Online Panel: Reconstructing the Ottoman Music Corpus: Interpretational Issues of Hampartsum Sources, Orient-Institut Istanbul.

23.09.2019: “Cataloging Private Archives of Turkish Music: Case Studies of OTMAG”, CMO Workshop Series on Cataloging, Editing, and Performing Ottoman Music: Archives and Catalogues of Written Music and Sound Recordings, Orient-Institut Istanbul.

Scientific Edition

Codex TR-Içağatay YZPER2. Critical Edition of Hampartsum Manuscript YZPER2 in the Private Archive of Ali Rifat Çağatay: Transcription & Commentary. Münster: Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae 2022 (Series VI: Single Manuscript Sources from Various Collections, 2). DOI: 10.60670/CMO.00000914.

Conference Proceedings

Özen, E. & Demirtaş S. & Baysal O. (2019). Musical Keywords in The Mevlevi Ayin Tradition. In International Music and Sciences Symposium Proceedings (pp. 577-586), Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music State Conservatory, Istanbul, 17-19 April 2019.

Demirtaş, S. & Özen E. & Baysal O. (2018). Edvar Geleneğinde Müzikötesinin Müzikle İlişkisi ve Mevlevi Ayini Repertuarına Yansımaları. In IX. International Hisarlı Ahmet Symposium Proceedings (pp. 322-331), Afyon Kocatepe University State Conservatory, Kütahya, 10-12 May 2018.

Özen, E. & Demirtaş S. & Baysal O. (2018). Beste-i Kadimler’den Dede Efendi’ye Mevlevi Ayinlerinde Söz Boyama. In IX. International Hisarlı Ahmet Symposium Proceedings (pp. 106-116), Afyon Kocatepe University State Conservatory, Kütahya, 10-12 May 2018.

Project Reports

“Mevlevi Ayinlerinde Söz Boyama”, TÜBİTAK Project, Program Code: 1001, Project No: 117K383, Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Ozan Baysal, 2017. https://trdizin.gov.tr/publication/project/detail/TVRnd01UWTI=

 Edited books

 Ass. Editor

Doğrusöz, N. ed. (2018). Rauf Yekta Bey’in Musiki Antikaları. Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı Yayınları.

 Editor

Ayangil, R. ed. (2016). 100. Ölüm Yıldönümünde “Üstâd-ı Cihân” Tanbûrî Cemil Bey’e Armağan. Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları.

Blogpost

“Historical Resonances of Nichori”. Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 9 April 2021. https://www.oiist.org/historical-resonances-of-nichori/

  • Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO): Source Catalogue and Critical Editions of Near Eastern Music Manuscripts (Research associate position at the DFG Project CMO, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

  • IMS Study Group “Auditory History”: Co-founder, co-chair with Tin Cugelj (University of Berne) since January 2023