I will be presenting my work in algorithmic music composition at the Cascadia Composers Lecture Series on January 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM in Lincoln Hall, Room 219, at Portland State University. The presentation will cover three main algorithms; arsNova, arsMosis, and topoNova. This suite of programs generates melodies based on the fundamental concepts of…
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I will be presenting my algorithmic composition work this Summer at RacketCon 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The title of my talk is: A Mental Model for Algorithmic Music Composition. Here is the abstract:
See you at Winter NAMM 2019 in Anaheim, California! We are located at booth 8300 in the Anaheim Convention Center and showcasing our new software application for algorithm music composition called, arsNovaTM. Algorythms is a company dedicated to creating a sophisticated system for generating musical melodies. We are also dedicated to the education of music…
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Transformational music theory involves the study of how musical objects, such as chords and rhythm, can transform from one to another. The music theorist Hugo Riemann (1849 – 1919) studied transformations of chords through operators that formed a group, these operators were defined by their voice leading properties. Voice leading is essentially how individual notes…
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The axis system involves harmonic and tonal substitution, and creates a functional relationship between tones and chords. This system shows how chords and tones relate by intervals of a minor third and a tritone, which function as tonal substitutes for one another. The axis system was created by Ernő Lendvaí, who was one of the…
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We are going to compose a short piece of music, then extend the music by adding symmetry relations. This will allow us to create a tonal-atonal-tonal structure. In particular, we will be using a Klein four-group, from the field of group theory. The Klein four-group has some very interesting properties that can be directly applied…
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