Seminário: “MUSIC” for Martians (a digression on the statistical mechanics of music)

No dia 30 de setembro de 2021, às 14h00, acontece pelo Google Meet o Seminário intitulado “MUSIC” for Martians (a digression on the statistical mechanics of music) que será ministrado pelo Prof. Dr. Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Professor e Pesquisador da University of North Texas, USA.

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RESUMO DA PALESTRA

The abstraction of musical structures (notes, melodies, chords, harmonic or rhythmic progressions, etc.) as mathematical objects in a geometrical space is one of the great accomplishments of contemporary music theory. Building on this foundation, I generalize the concept of musical spaces as networks and derive functional principles of compositional design by the direct analysis of the network topology. This approach provides a novel framework for the analysis and quantification of similarity of musical objects and structures, and suggests a way to relate such measures to the human perception of different musical entities. Finally, the analysis of a single work or a corpus of compositions as complex networks provides alternative ways of interpreting the compositional process of a composer by quantifying emergent behaviors with well- established statistical mechanics techniques. In particular, I will demonstrate how tonal harmony, or any other compositional framework, emerges naturally as a property of the network topology.