Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Etkileşimli Bestecilik
	English	Interactive Music Composition
Course Code	MYL 5037E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Konstantınos Vasılakos
Course Objectives		1. To acquaint students with the necessary programming skills to create bespoke interactive music software. 2. To introduce students efficient mapping strategies between hardware to software optimised for physical interaction with computer based musical environments. 3. To raise students’ awareness in improvisation techniques using live coding techniques and web based networked music systems. 4. To introduce students the aesthetics and improvisation paradigms within the range of electroacoustic music composition aided by computer based musical environments.
Course Description		Advanced tools and techniques for electroacoustic music composition, real time improvisation techniques with interactive systems using diverse performance paradigms, digital interfaces and mapping strategies, sound synthesis techniques, sonification of non-musical raw data.
Course Outcomes
Pre-requisite(s)		MYL 843E Preparatory Studies in Sonic Arts.
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook
Other References		Vasilakos, K. et al. 2020. Sonification of High Energy Physics Data Using Live Coding and Web Based Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 388–393. Vasilakos, K., 2018. GREAP: An Interactive System For Gestural Manipulation of Sonic Material Using a Leap Motion Device. Anon 2016. Musical instrument in the 21st century. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Konstantinos Vasilakos, 2016. An evaluation of digital interfaces for music composition and improvisation. (Doctoral dissertation, Keele University). Wilson, S., Lorway, N., Coull, R., Vasilakos, K. and Moyers, T., 2014. Free as in BEER: Some Explorations into Structured Improvisation Using Networked Live-Coding Systems. Computer Music Journal, 38(1), pp.54–64. Wilson, S., Collins, N. and Cottle, D. eds., 2011. The SuperCollider book. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Hugill, A.,2012. The digital musician. Second edition ed. New York?; London: Routledge. Collins, N. and Escrivan Rincón, J. d’, 2011. The Cambridge companion to electronic music. [online] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Miranda, E.R. and Wanderley, M.M., 2006. New digital musical instruments: control and interaction beyond the keyboard. The computer music and digital audio series. Middleton, Wis: A-R Editions. Manning, P., 2004. Electronic and computer music. Rev. and expanded ed ed. Oxford?; New York: Oxford University Press. Emmerson, S., 2000. Music, Electronic Media and Culture. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. Sloboda, J.A. ed., 2000. Generative processes in music: the psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition. Oxford [England]?: New York: Clarendon Press?; Oxford University Press.

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