Courses
Upcoming Offerings
projected for 2024 and so on
Graduate Seminars
Noise and Silence (Re)imagined: Theory and Practice
Listening: Philosophical and Empirical Approaches
Auditory Politics of Sustainable Futures
Philosophy of Music: Post-50s, Deleuze, and Non-futures
Materialism-s of Sound: Historicities of the New and Dialectic
Acoustic Ecologies of the Middle East: Historicities and Practice
Acoustic Ecologies of Southeast Asia: Historicities and Practice
Research Methodologies of Electroacoustic Music Composition
Mathematical Foundations of Vibration Mechanics
Sound and Posthumanistic Prospects
Current Compositional Techniques
Advanced Topics in Electroacoustic Music
Advanced Field Recording and Analysis
Introductory and Advanced Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Notation and Engraving Software
Advanced Notation Techniques
Introduction to Instrumentation and Arranging
Introduction to Orchestral Scoring
Introduction to Film and Game Music in DAW and VST plugins
Advanced Topics in Film and Game Music Scoring
Counterpoint I & II
Composition and Improvisation with Partimenti and Galant Schemata
Introduction to Turkish Music
Introduction to Pure Data
Introduction to Max 8
Advanced Sound Design with Graphic Programming Environments
Music with Electric Circuits and Arduino Integrated Developing Environment
Orchestration I & II
Electroacoustic Music I & II
Soundscapes and Bioacoustics
Introduction to Field Recording Techniques
Logic Pro Basics
Pro Tools Basics
Ableton Live Basics
Survey in Python 3 Audio Libraries
Musical Creation with C and C++ based Programming Environments
Music Analysis with Open Source Programming Environments
NeoRiemannian Theory Basics
Field Recording and Editing Techniques
Integrated Theory and Aural Skills
Studio Band: Experimental
Studio Band: Rock
Studio Band: DIY
Guitar Studies
Improvisation Ensemble
Environmental Sound Studies
Topics in Music Cognition
Past Courses
Lecturer, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Bilkent University
Fall 2020
MSC 213 Advanced Orchestration I: Tracing Eco–Cosmopolitanism in 18th
Century Orchestral Timbre
MSC 113 Techniques of Notation and Instrumentation
Composition: Individual Music Studies I
Spring 2020
MSC 214 Advanced Orchestration II: Scoring for Stage, Film, and Games
MSC 114 Fundamentals of Orchestration: Mozart’s Orchestral Technique
in 1778–1781
Composition: Individual Music Studies II
Fall 2019
MSC 213 Advanced Orchestration I
MSC 113 Techniques of Notation and Instrumentation
Composition: Individual Music Studies I
Lecturer, Department of Music, Cornell University
Fall 2015
Music 3103 Musicianship III
Lecturer, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Bilkent University
Spring 2014
MSC 904 Ear Training II
MSC 912 Individual Music Studies: Composition for Non-Majors
Tonal Harmony, Bilkent Music Preparatory High School
Fall 2013
MSC 903 Ear Training I
MSC 911 Individual Music Studies: Composition for Non-Majors
Fall 2004 – Spring 2006
Individual Music Studies: Classical Guitar for Non-Majors
(advised by Prof. Kursad Terci undergraduate level, no code available due to curriculum revision, equivalent to MSC 911 and 912 Individual Music Studies)
Assistant Conductor, Department of Music, Cornell University
Spring 2016
Assistant Conductor for the Cornell Symphony Orchestra
with conductor Kisun Sung, and Graduate Teaching Assistant for Music 3621.
Responsibilities included teaching and conducting orchestral sectionals; orchestral administration, financing, and organization; and management of publicity materials, program notes, and webcasting.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, Cornell University
Spring 2019
Music 3621, Orchestra with conductor Adrian Slywotzky
Responsibilities included a composition commission, rehearsing, tutoring in subjects of orchestral repertoire, program notes, and webcasting.
Fall 2018
Music 2101, Theory Materials and Techniques 1
with Professor Roger Moseley Subjects included Fuxian Counterpoint and Galant Schemata
(a program in Cornell University Active Learning Initiative)
Spring 2017
Music 2102, Theory Materials and Techniques 2
with Professor Roger Moseley Subjects included Neo-Riemannian Theory
(a program in Cornell University Active Learning Initiative)
Fall 2016
Music 1421, Introduction to Computer Music
with Professor Kevin Ernste
Subjects included practical and theoretical exploration of signal processing, Max MSP, Pure Data, Ableton Live, Reason, Arduino coding, recording, editing, and mixing.
Fall 2015
Music 3101, Tonal Theory III with Professor Roger Moseley
Responsibilities included designing and teaching weekly sections, tutoring, and grading. (a program in Cornell University Active Learning Initiative)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Bilkent University
Fall 2012 – Fall 2013
Tonal Harmony, with Professor Gokce Altay
(primarily for Bilkent Music Preparatory High School music program, and additional undergraduate level support)
Responsibilities included teaching weekly sections, tutoring, and grading.