03.08 - DREU awardees @ MuCoaCo

Jiayun Guo of the University of Washington and Katie Wolf of the University of Minnesota are among 70 out of 500 students selected for this summer's CDC/CRA-W Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU). They will be working at the MuCoaCo Lab this summer.

03.06 - MuSA.RT @ MTSE

Elaine Chew gives a keynote lecture, Tonality Algorithms and Visualization, at the Music Theory Southeast meeting, held at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, this  year.

A large contingent of faculty and students are at the MTSE meeting from Florida State University at Tallahassee, including Clifton Callender and Joseph Kraus pictured below. Adrian Childs of the University of Georgia, a recent collaborator on the organization of MCM 2009 at Yale,  is also pictured below. It was gratifying to see the enthusiasm of the attendees for MuSA.RT, several of whom started cheering for certain tonal centers to win out over others.

03.04 - Zenph Studios

Elaine Chew visits Zenph Studios while in the Carolinas for the Music Theory Southeast meeting. John Walker gives a tour of their facilities in Raleigh, NC. MuSA.RT analyzes tonal structures as projected by Glenn Gould's 1955 performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Art Tatum's 1933 recording of Tea for Two (shown below). Anatoly Larkin plays with MuSA.RT and tests its analytical limits. We also let Mimi have a go at the Art Tatum.

Glenn Gould's 1955 performance of Goldberg Variation 8

Art Tatum's 1933 performance of Tea for Two

02.24 - Isaac Schankler works with Mimi

Composer-improviser Isaac Schankler starts working with Mimi, in preparation for Mimi's concert debut at the People Inside Electronics concert this coming June. New changes, such as color coding of pitch classes are introduced.

01.31 - MCM Reviewed in CMJ

Jonathan Bragg and Anna Huang's review the Mathematics and Computation in Music meeting appears in the Computer Music Journal 34(1): [ html ]

01.28 - Aniruddh Patel

Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego visits USC and gives a talk on "Rhythm in Speech and Music." The talk took place at Doheny Library, and was attended by over 200 people across three schools at USC — the Viterbi School of Engineering, the Thornton School of Music, and the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences — and beyond.

06.22 - MCM @ Yale University

2009.06.19-22: Elaine Chew is program co-chair, with Adrian Childs, of the Second Biennial International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, held at Yale University. Ching-Hua Chuan is Publications Chair. Together, Chew, Childs, and Chuan co-edited the refereed conference proceedings, which is published as Volume 38 of the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science series.