This seminar emphasizes current and emerging aesthetic trends in composition. This course includes reading, listening, score study, and analysis relating individual works to current trends. The seminar welcomes all aesthetics but requires students to position their works within the current cultural context. Topics include: post-digitalism/post-internet aesthetics; hybridization and pop influence on the avant-garde; new approaches to rhythm, harmony, melody, and texture; sound mapping and sonification; appropriation, collaboration, and inspiration; spectral and post-spectral technique; computer-assisted composition; gesture and timbre.