Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922, is a UKRI-funded European Research Council Starting Grant project, focusing on the auditory histories of the late Ottoman Empire. The project considers the sonic cultures of the late Ottoman period, including: science and technology, sonic environments (including more-than-human auralities), noise and silence, sound and urban/public space, music and its mediations, sound’s role in identity formation (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability), and the ‘belliphonic’ sounds of war and political violence. In doing so, we hope both to provincialize sound studies and its Euro-American focus, while also sonifying the historiography of the eastern Mediterranean in the long 19th century leading to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the Turkish Republic.