“Creating Small Worlds – The Craft of Narrative Instrumental Music” Seminar Held at ARUCAD
The seminar titled “Creating Small Worlds – The Craft of Narrative Instrumental Music,” organized by the Sound Arts and Design Department at Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD), was held on Tuesday, 13 January 2026, at BA SIN03. The event brought together students and academics with Asst. Prof. Dr. İnal Bilsel, Head of the Sound Arts and Design Department at ARUCAD.
During the seminar, instrumental music was approached as a narrative space shaped through sound, memory, and atmosphere. Asst. Prof. Dr. Bilsel discussed how emotionally resonant musical worlds can be constructed without words, focusing on compositional strategies such as recurring motifs, imagined artifacts, lo-fi aesthetics, and production limitations.
Held as an academic gathering, the seminar also addressed interdisciplinary production practices at the intersection of music and visual arts. Emphasizing that narrative instrumental music involves not only technical decisions but also conceptual and intuitive processes, the session fostered an in-depth discussion with contributions from academic staff.
Concluding with an interactive exchange, the seminar offered students—particularly those working in composition and sound design—a reflective and production-oriented perspective on contemporary instrumental music.
During the seminar, instrumental music was approached as a narrative space shaped through sound, memory, and atmosphere. Asst. Prof. Dr. Bilsel discussed how emotionally resonant musical worlds can be constructed without words, focusing on compositional strategies such as recurring motifs, imagined artifacts, lo-fi aesthetics, and production limitations.
Held as an academic gathering, the seminar also addressed interdisciplinary production practices at the intersection of music and visual arts. Emphasizing that narrative instrumental music involves not only technical decisions but also conceptual and intuitive processes, the session fostered an in-depth discussion with contributions from academic staff.
Concluding with an interactive exchange, the seminar offered students—particularly those working in composition and sound design—a reflective and production-oriented perspective on contemporary instrumental music.
