Mathemusical Conversations

Jordan B. L. Smith (1) , Elaine Chew (2) , Gérard Assayag (3)

1 AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2 QMUL - Queen Mary University of London
3 Repmus - Représentations musicales

The book celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music. This volume is a compilation of the invited talks given at the Mathemusical Conversations workshop that took place in Singapore from 13–15 February 2015, organized by Elaine Chew in partnership with Gérard Assayag for the scientific program and with Bernard Lanskey for the artistic program. The contributors are world experts and leading scholars, writing on the intersection of music and mathematics. They also focus on performance and composition, two topics which are foundational both to the understanding of human creativity and to the creation of tomorrow's music technologies. This book is essential reading for researchers in both music and mathematics. It will also appeal more broadly to scholars, students, musicians, and anyone interested in new perspectives on the intimate relationship between these two universal human activities. The workshop was co-hosted, and generously funded, by the Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore.

Mots clés: mathemusical science; computer music; music computing; music formalisation; computational creativity

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Informatique [cs]; Sciences cognitives

Jordan B. L. Smith, Elaine Chew, Gérard Assayag. Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition. Jordan B. L. Smith; Elaine Chew; Gérard Assayag. Mathemusical Conversation, Feb 2015, Singapour, Singapore. 32, World Scientific; Imperial College Press, 2016, Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 978-981-3140-09-7. ⟨hal-01378897⟩