Although I love computers in music, I think the most important and least talked-about aspects of music are Gestalt perception (especially Pragnanz): http://homepages.ius.edu/rallman/gestalt.html and tuning mathematics: http://www.chrysalis-foundation.org/Manuscript.htm Western thinkers have become preoccupied with thinking of intervals as steps to be added and subtracted rather than as ratios to be multiplied and divided. But the effect they have on the brain of the listener derives from ratios, not sums.
The Gestalt principles are often forgotten by computer music researchers (as well as all kinds of musicians). I think it would be quite possible to teach a computer program to account for these grouping tendencies, and to create tension between them.
-Chuckk
On 8/1/06, Gerda Strobl gerda.strobl@student.tugraz.at wrote:
Hi Steffen,
I just got a book from the library that is quite new: "Mathematics and Music" A Diderot Mathematical Forum, G. Assayag, H. Feichtinger, J. Rodrigues (Editors), 2002, Springer Verlag Heidelberg).
It gives a very good overview about several topics that are music, maths and computer music related. Perhaps you can find it in your university library--might give you some nice ideas ;-).
Gerda
Steffen wrote:
Hey Pd-List,
Fist of all: Im sorry if this is too off-topic, i know it's on the edge.
I'm soon gonna write the final paper/thesis, before jumping to the "master" studies of mathematics. I'm not too familiar with the all educational systems in the english speaking world, but it's the part of my studies, that, when finished, gives me what's equal to a master degree in mathematics.
To the point: I'm hoping to find a topic that combines "computer music" with mathematics, or maybe more correctly; a mathematical topic on a fitting level, that has (some) relations to computer music (in a broad sense).
I'm kind of blank and lack computer music knowledge, hence i ask you lot: got any ideas?
Hope you can help. And thanks a grand.
Oh, my minor is philosophy if that matters.
Best, Steffen
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