Mathematics and Computation in Music Conference

Wednesday June 15  8.30am-9.30am: (Centre Pompidou) – Welcome and Registration of the Participants  9.30am-11.15am: (Centre Pompidou, Petite salle) – Welcome by Hugues Vinet (IRCAM Scientific Director) / Paper Session 1: Word and Scale Theory I  Karst De Jong, Thomas Noll – Fundamental Passacaglia: Harmonic Functions and the Modes of the Musical Tetractys  Norman Carey – On a Class of Locally Symmetric Sequences: The Right Infinite Word Lq  David Clampitt – Sensitive Interval Property for Scales as Words in the Free Group F2  11.30am-1.00pm : (Centre Pompidou, petite salle) – Paper Session 2: Word and Scale Theory II  Marek Zabka – Introduction to Scale Theory over Words in Two Dimensions  Julian Hook – Spelled Heptachords  David Meredith – Tonal Scales and Minimal Simple Pitch Class Cycles  1.15pm -2.15pm : (IRCAM, Salle Stravinsky) – Meeting of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematics and Music  2.30pm -3.30pm : (Centre Pompidou, Petite salle) – Paper Session 3: History, Philosophy and Epistemology  Tito M. Tonietti – Music Between Hearing and Counting (A Historical Case Chosen Within Continuous Long-lasting Conflicts)  Dmitri Tymoczko – Mazzola’s Model of Fuxian Counterpoint  4.00pm -5.30pm : (Centre Pompidou, Petite salle) – Panel Session “Bridging the Gap: Computational and Mathematical Approaches in Music Research”. With the participation of Alan Marsden, Guerino Mazzola, Geraint Wiggins. Organizers: Anja Volk and Aline Honingh.*  6.30pm -7.30pm : (IRCAM, Espace de projection) - Welcome by Frank Madlener (IRCAM Director).Pierre Boulez / Alain Connes: La créativité en musique et en mathématiques (encounter led by Gérard Assayag, director of the IRCAM/CNRS Lab). Simultaneous translation French/English. Free Entry, limited seating available.  8.30pm : (IRCAM, Espace de projection) - “Math/Music Concert”, ensemble Musikfabrik. Works by Daniele Ghisi (abroad, World Premiere), Karim Haddad (Ce qui dort dans l’ombre sacrée…), György Ligeti (Monument. Selbstportrait. Bewegung), Karlheinz Stockhausen (Kontakte).