** The Music and Science list is managed by the Institute of Musical Research (www.music.sas.ac.uk) as a bulletin board and discussion forum for researchers working at the shared boundaries of science and music. **

MESSAGE FOLLOWS:



Dear all,

On Wednesday, 4th July at 2:00pm, Louis Bigo will present the seminar 
'Different uses of space to analyze harmonic structures'.

Please note that the talk will take place in Eng.2.09 in the Electronic 
Engineering building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, 
London E1 4NS.

Directions on how to access the building can be found at 
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus-map.php. If you are coming from 
outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one is stuck 
outside the doors. Details of future seminars can be found at 
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.

If you wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list, please send me 
an email and I'll be happy to do so.


Wednesday's seminar (4th July, 2:00pm):

Title:

Different uses of space to analyze harmonic structures

Speaker:

Louis Bigo

Abstract:

This presentation proposes different ways to use the notion of space for 
visualization and analysis of symbolic harmonic structures. Our approach 
is motivated by researching symbolic spaces exhibiting the singularity of 
a musical sequence by its representation. This motivation is central in 
spatial computing, which we use with the help of the dedicated programming 
language MGS. After a quick presentation of this language, we will propose 
two kinds of pitch space to represent harmonic structures: Irregular pitch 
spaces, in the form of simplicial complexes resulting from a computation. 
The second kind of space comprises regular pitch spaces (well known as 
Tonnetze). We use them to analyze geometrical properties associated with 
musical progressions.

Bio:

Louis Bigo is a PhD student at IRCAM, Paris and at LACL (Université Paris 
12). He began his PhD research in 2010 after he graduated from the ATIAM 
Masters programme (Acoustics, Signal Processing, Computer Science applied 
to Music) at IRCAM. Prior to IRCAM, he worked as an Engineer for the 
Computer Science company Axway after graduating from the Engineering 
school Polytech'Lille.