Salih Demirtaş

Research Fellow

Tel.: +90 – 212 293 60 67 / 119
Email: 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).