EDA ER

Fluid Narratives is a multidisciplinary project that reimagines the traditional Turkish art of Ebru (marbling) as a living language for sound, performance, and visual storytelling. Rooted in Ottoman heritage and historically practiced by women, Ebru becomes, in this context, a method of composition—crafted with water, breath, pigment, and code.

Emerging from the borderlands—between memory and sound, tradition and glitch, silence and rupture—Fluid Narratives treats storytelling as architecture, and sound as skin. It resists containment: breaking frames, bending them, and building new ones. Through custom systems developed in Max/MSP, TouchDesigner, and algorithmic design, marbled forms are translated into sonic gestures, embodied performances, and immersive environments.

This project is an invocation—a space of grief, healing, and resistance. It carries submerged truths, ancestral frequencies, and the voices of women historically denied expression. It carries Istanbul. It carries no borders. It carries everything—and nothing.

Fluid Narratives is not only interdisciplinary, but inter-emotional, inter-political, and intergenerational. It invites a deep mode of listening—one that recognizes technology as an active presence: one that listens, remembers, and disrupts.

To perform is to transmute.
To compose is to reclaim.
To create is to survive.

This project does not translate or dilute—it alchemizes.
It submerges.
It listens deeply.
And it invites others to do the same.

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*Fluid Narrative is Eda Er's dissertation project at UC Berkeley that transforms Ebru Art into Sonic Notation and Feminist Storytelling with New Media Technology