Music Composition & Mathematical Thinking

ISBN-13: 9783659421624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str.

Hadjileontiadis Leontios

Opis

Creative and critical thinking has always been the driving force of compositional activity. Combined with advanced signal processing, an integrative and creative framework can be flourished, leading to the origination, conception and discovery of musical ideas. In this book, the way mathematical-based approaches, such as non-linear dynamics, stochastic analysis, game theory and neural networks, could be used as organisational basis of the sound characteristics is explored, creating abstractions (both in macro- and micro-structural level) from which potential structural relationships are made. To this end, sophisticated control of effective pre-compositional planning, by employing computer-based programming, is presented, in an attempt to develop models and strategies with a high degree of generalisation, directly transferable into a music-generating outcome. The realisation procedure of these models and strategies into actual musical works unveils hidden procedural relations and behaviours and controls effectively the statistical characteristics of the compositional building units, such as their distribution in time, frequency and space domains.

O autorze

Born ( -1966) in Kastoria, northern Greece. He holds Diplomas in Guitar Performance & Composition, in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE-AUTH, Greece), in Musicology and PhDs in ECE and Music Composition (Univ. of York, UK). He currently serves as a Professor at the ECE and teaches composition at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.