Tucker M. Wiedenkeller is a writer, musicologist, and musician focusing on the Middle East and Mediterranean. He has spent several years living in Egypt, studying, working in the music scene, and writing about its music both as a journalist and as an academic researcher. He is particularly interested in the confluence of traditional and contemporary styles and the manifestation of trance and ecstasy in modern, technological contexts. He studied musicology and has been a part of multiple applied ethnomusicology initiatives. Additionally he works as a copy editor for Norient. If not in Cairo or Istanbul, he is likely in the Sonoran Desert.