Yeditepe University, Cognitive Science Master's Program is happy to announce its next lecture under COGS598: Cognitive Science Seminar course.
Shape Grammars for Musical Improvisation through the Isochrony of Turkish Language
Murat Ali Cengiz, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
Monday April 9th, 16:15
A-412 (Computer Engineering Department - Seminar Room)
Engineering Building
Improvised music, in comparison to other genres, needs defined rules and parameters to be meaningful. Thus, a musical syntax has to be constructed and agreed upon. As musicians we have to derive from various sources for inspiration and information. The relation of isochrony and musical rhythm has been long debated as one way of how language shapes music. In this study, the rhythm of Turkish language is being analyzed for its use of creating a musical syntax.
To be able to shape the musical syntax, we’re going to explore the use of shape grammars in music, an architectural concept of Prof. George Stiny (MIT, Computer Aided Architectural Design), while using the Isochrony (the spoken rhythm) of the Turkish language as source material.
Musical syntax through works of Ray Jackendoff (Tufts) (Musical Parsing and Musical Affect) and Fred Lehrdahl (A Generative Theory of Tonal Music), shape grammars in computer aided architectural design, fractal relations and generative music are going to be discussed.