Eliot Bates has been playing oud since 1992, and a professional performer, recording artist, and teacher since 1994. He has performed extensively in North America and Turkey with the groups Farabi, Kinetik Trance, 3Spell, Zambra, Basquerole, and Nerelisin. He has also produced several albums of electroacoustic music based on instrumental performances as Kaderci. Most recently, he has been active as a solo artist, captivating audiences with his adaptations of Anatolian folk songs on the oud, and contributing to the new albums and 2010 concerts of the apocalyptic industrial folk rock group Current 93.

Partial Discography (electroacoustic composition and instrumental performances):
* 2008 Kaderci "Mapping Cartographic Abstractions" (iTunes)
* 1999 Kaderci "Record Space"
* 1998 Kaderci "Mapping Abstractions"
* 1996 Kaderci "Afghan Remixes"

Partial Discography (oud, vocals, percussion):
* 2010 Current 93 "Baalstorm, Sing Omega" (Coptic Cat)
* 2007 Nerelisin "Fark Etmez!" (iTunes)
* 2006 CAPE Team Mystic: "Afraid"
* 2006 Grup Yorum "Yildizlar Kusandik" [Kalan]
* 2006 for the film Beynelmilel (Besiktas Kültür Merkezi)
* 2006 Yasar Kabaosmanoglu "Rakani" [Metropol]
* 2004 CAPE Team Industry: "Burn in the Pyres"
* 2004 CAPE Team Eclectic: "If I hadn't Lied"
* 2002 Basquerole "Morning of Radiance"
* 2003 for PBS series Frontline
* 2002 Kinetik Trance "Bint al-Balad"
* 2001 3Spell "Music for Ultra Gypsies"
* 1994 Farabi "Travels with Farabi"