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Knots, Music and DNA

2020

Musical gestures connect the symbolic layer of the score to the physical layer of sound. I focus here on the mathematical theory of musical gestures, and I propose its generalization to include braids and knots. In this way, it is possible to extend the formalism to cover more case studies, especially regarding conducting gestures. Moreover, recent developments involving comparisons and similarities between gestures of orchestral musicians can be contextualized in the frame of braided monoidal categories. Because knots and braids can be applied to both music and biology (they apply to knotted proteins, for example), I end the article with a new musical rendition of DNA.

MusicalVisual artGeneral Mathematics (math.GM)Mathematics::Category TheoryBraidFOS: MathematicsCategory theory; Composition; Musical gesture; Synesthesia; Visual artAlgorithmic compositionMathematics - General MathematicsSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSettore INF/01 - InformaticaMusic psychologyMusical gestureSettore MAT/04 - Matematiche ComplementariMathematics::Geometric TopologyLinguisticsMathematical theorySettore MAT/02 - AlgebraCategory theory Composition Musical gesture Synesthesia Visual art SettoreComputer Science::SoundThe SymbolicComputer musicMusicSynesthesiaGestureCategory theoryComposition
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Mercury$$^\mathrm{\textregistered }$$: A Software Based on Fuzzy Clustering for Computer-Assisted Composition

2019

We present Mercury, a new software for computer-assisted composition based on fuzzy clustering algorithms. This software is able to generate a big number of transitions between any two different melodies, harmonic progressions or rhythmical patterns. Mercury works with symbolic music notation. The software is, therefore, able to read music and to export the generated musical production into MusicXML format. This paper focusses on some theoretical aspects of the CFT algorithm implemented in the software in order to create those complete transitions, overviewing not only the structure of the program but the user’s interface and its music notation module. Finally, the wide variety of compositi…

Musical notationFuzzy clusteringComputer sciencebusiness.industryProgramming languagecomputer.software_genreNotationFuzzy logicSoftwareMercury (programming language)businessCluster analysisAlgorithmic compositioncomputercomputer.programming_language
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Towards Affective Algorithmic Composition

2013

Automated systems for the selective adjustment of emotional responses by means of musical features are driving an emerging field: affective algorithmic composition. Strategies for algorithmic composition, and the large variety of systems for computer-automation of such strategies, are well documented in literature. Re-views of computer systems for expressive performance (CSEMPs) also provide a thorough overview of the extensive work carried out in the area of expressive computer music performance, with some crossover between composition and performance systems. Although there has been a significant amount of work (largely carried out within the last decade) implementing systems for algorith…

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