COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPOSITION FOR ELECTROACOUSTIC MEDIA 1

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZK 3051 COMPOSITION FOR ELECTROACOUSTIC MEDIA 1 ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Composition

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EBRU GÜNER CANBEY

Offered to

Composition

Course Objective

This course will begin with an introduction to making music with a digital audio workstation. Once proficiency is developed, students will begin composing works modeled after early music concrete examples from the 1950 s and 1960 s. Final compositions will be performed in public.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will develop an understanding of the nature of electroacoustic composition in relation to acoustic composition.
2   Students will gain a broad understanding of the components of musical textures in audio.
3   Students will learn a broad range of signal processing techniques.
4   Students will be able to conceive of original electroacoustic compositional material.
5   Students will learn to operate and program a Digital Audio Workstation
6   Students will gain an understanding of how acousmatic music performances differ from acoustic music performances.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 How do we listen to electroacoustic music How is electroacoustic composition different from acoustic composition
2 Handling audio in the Digital Audio Workstation.
3 Basic audio manipulations. Listening: Pierre Schaeffer
4 Panorama and depth. Listening: Stockhausen.
5 Frequency and dynamic ranges. Using EQ.
6 Building structures. Listening: Harvey
7 More advanced use of Digital Audio Workstations
8 In-class performances of short pieces.
9 Introduction to structural musical functions.
10 In-class listening and analysis. Listening: Risset, Chowning.
11 Present opening gesture of the final composition and analyze its implications in class.
12 Electroacoustic composer portraits
13 Present first half of final project in class.
14 Present complete final projects in class. Critique and revise.
15 Final Performance/presentation of revised projects.

Recomended or Required Reading

Hewitt, Michael, Composition for Computer Musicians, Centage Learning, 2009
Roads, Curtis, The Computer Music Tutorial, MIT Press, 1996
Roads, Curtis, Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic, MIT Press, 2015 Collins, Nick, Electronic Music, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Manning, Peter, Electronic and Computer Music, Oxford University Press, 2013
Collins, Nick and d Escrivan, Julio (eds.),The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures will consist of listening to electronic music pieces, software programming examples, as well as examinations and trials of different compositional techniques.

Assignments will consist of small electronic composition projects, as well as one larger final electronic composition project.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE
3 RST RESIT
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE RST


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

There will be weekly creative assignments, many of which will be presented in class .
The final project will be an electronic composition.

Assessment Criteria

The assignments will be evaluated on the basis of timeliness, creativity, adherence to the assignment s parameters, and on clarity of musical function.

The project will also be evaluated on the basis of timeliness, creativity, adherence to the assignment s parameters, and on clarity of musical function.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0 535 760 25 07 psnapper@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Tutorials 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Design Project 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 13 1 13
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.211321122
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LO.6333211223

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