Murat Çolak is a mastering and recording engineer, mixer, and producer based in Manhattan, working with artists, labels, and instituitions worldwide.

Originally trained as a composer (MA, Istanbul Technical University; DMA, Boston University), Murat approaches engineering from a strongly musical perspective, with particular interests in interpretation, acoustics, and musical memory. He focuses primarily on classical, avant-garde, and electroacoustic music, with credits on international art music labels such as KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, Jazzland, Another Timbre, Da Vinci Classics, Neuma, and New Focus Recordings. His work also extends to jazz, world music, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, allowing methods and ideas drawn from contemporary art music to inform work in genres driven by rhythm, sound design, and lyricism.

Education and artistic research are central to his practice. He teaches music composition, production, and technology at Montclair State University and with the New York Philharmonic. He has held teaching residencies and given talks at institutions including Columbia University’s Computer Music Center (CMC), Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Cornell University Music Department, Harvard University’s Group for New Music (HGNM), Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Arts, and UC Berkeley’s CNMAT.

His studio, GERYON, is located in uptown Manhattan. It is a dedicated space for mastering, mixing, and long-form production work. He also produces high-fidelity recordings in studios, concert halls, and houses of worship across New York City and beyond.

Murat collaborates with artists and institutions across a wide range of scales and practices, from intimate solo works to large ensemble and interdisciplinary projects, and is particularly drawn to work that places unusual demands on recording, listening, and interpretation.