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Course Name	Turkish	İleri Elektronik Müzik Besteciliği
	English	Advanced Electronic Music Composition
Course Code	MDP 629E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Emmanouıl Ekmektsoglou
Course Objectives		1. To modify existing compositional techniques or provide new ones, in response to a series of guided compositional challenges, as a means of forging an individual compositional style. 2. To provide students’ own perspective on contemporary electronic music discourse through analysis of current debates. 3. To help students to respond to this discourse by suggesting possible future practices and aesthetic trends through further writing and discussion.
Course Description		An in depth study of the aesthetic and technical challenges facing composers of electronic music today. Students will confront a series of compositional challenges, and through their responses formulate the elements of a personal approach to electronic music making. Issues specific to electronic music composition are explored through weekly workshop sessions and analysis of genre defining works composed since 2000.
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully pass this course gain the following knowledge skills and competencies; 1. The competency on moving beyond mastery of foundation compositional skills towards the development of an individual voice in electronic music making. 2. The ability to develop their own techniques and responses to specific compositional problems. 3. Advanced skills in sound design, algorithmic composition and interactive systems. 4. The competency on articulating their own approach to compositional style in the context of current aesthetic debates in electronic music making.
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Other References		Pierre Boulez. 1977. “Technology and Composer,” The Times Literary Supplement (May 6th, 1977). Luigi Nono. 1960. “The Historical Reality of Music Today,” The Score (July 1960). J. Dack,. 1999. “Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte and Narrativity,” eContact 2(2) H. Vaggione, H.. 2001. “Composing Musical Spaces By Means of Decorrelation of Audio Signals,” in Addendum of the COST G-6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Ireland D. Smalley. 1997. “Spectro-morphology: explaining sounds-shapes,” Organized Sound 2(2)

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