Music of speech: Transferring spoken dialogue to music

This master's thesis focuses on oral conversation. Music of Speech aims to discuss emotional and interactive aspects of oral interchange through musical terminology, based on the suggestions that speaking is the most frequently used improvisational instrument among humans and each dialogue is a formed-piece in which introduction, development, and conclusion are executed, based on selected topic(s). I suggest that analyzing dialogues in such way could be useful for composers, theorists and musicians in order to bring new perspectives to their musical ideas. The main part of the project is based on a sound recording experiment. In this experiment, I perform a casual conversation with Neslihan Aker, a professional actress. This conversation is recorded with a single microphone. The analyzed part is selected from a whole conversation, which is over 50 minutes. Selected dialogue is transcribed into musical notation and observed not only through theoretical and rhythmic perspectives, but also in terms of compositional qualities.