Music 424: Musical Informatics

Spring 2019

Class notes

• Proportions
  

• Computers and Sounds
• Sets and operations with sets
• Perception of sounds
• Sound and the environment
  

• Tuning systems
  
• Scales and modes
  
• Equivalence relations
• Symmetries and group structures
• Patterns as objects
• Hierarchies
  
• Probability and stochastic distributions
  
• Time Asymmetry
  

• Chance procedures
  
• Directional processes
  
• Self-similar processes; fractals| Burnson - Incandescence.aif
• Developmental techniques| Messiaen.pdf | Varese 21.5.pdf
• Game Theory
  

• Attractors
• Cybernetics Predator and prey.gif
• Information Theory
• Information Theory
• Birkhoff's Aesthetic Measure
  
• Computer-assisted Composition
  

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