The composition seminar  meets weekly offering students an opportunity to listen to new works, engage with peers and faculty, and discuss important issues of contemporary music and composition.  Prepared attendance at every weekly seminar is required.

Recent topics we have engaged:

Discussion of the relationship between improvisation and composition
Discussion of Cox and Warner, Audio Culture
Discussion of Miranda and Wanderley, New Digital Musical Instrument
Discussion of Roger Reynolds, Form and Method
Discussion of Trevor Wishart, On Sonic Art
Discussion of Bob Snyder, Music and Memory: An Introduction
Discussion of contemporary music notation and means of communicating with performers
Discussion of analytical approaches to pitch control across the 19th and 20th centuries
Discussion of current approaches to live interactive processing in concert settings
Discussion of improvisation, open form, and composition in contemporary music