Tag Archives: Mathematica

Rushed Snares

Posted on 23 March, 2024 by Guy

My latest album was released yesterday. It’s the final release in Superpang’s digital-only series which started with Liminal Kicks (SP01) in 2020. Rushed Snares (SP200) is a follow-up, designed to end this first chapter of the label with a return … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Music | Tagged drumming, drums, Liminal Kicks, Mathematica, MIDI, music, OEIS, Rushed Snares, software, Superpang | Leave a comment

Hard Return Compilation

Posted on 13 March, 2024 by Guy

The Hard Return label run by Jack Chuter, for which I made its very first release, has put out a big compilation album today. 66 artists responded to Jack’s call to submit “the most repetitive thing you’ve ever done”. My … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Music, Science | Tagged genome sequence, Hard Return, Jack Chuter, Mathematica, SARS-CoV-2, sonification | Leave a comment

Permutation Entropy

Posted on 20 November, 2021 by Guy

Permutation entropy is a measure of complexity developed for application to time series data. I wasn’t familiar with this measure until Yoichi Ichikawa (peeq / nankotsuteacher, one of the Tokinogake crew) mentioned it on Twitter, noting that it could be … Continue reading →

Posted in analysis, Audio, Complexity | Tagged audio analysis, Bandt & Pompe, complexity measure, Mathematica, permutation entropy, waveform | 2 Comments

EVOL – The Chord Catalogue for Eight-O-Eight

Posted on 25 May, 2021 by Guy

I made some charts for EVOL’s latest album. The Chord Catalogue for Eight-O-Eight is inspired by Tom Johnson’s The Chord Catalogue which entails playing on a piano every possible chord for every combination of notes in an octave from 2 … Continue reading →

Posted in analysis, Audio, Music | Tagged chords, combinatorics, data visualisation, EVOL, Mathematica, Tom Johnson | Leave a comment

Sloane’s gap: cultural influences in mathematics

Posted on 22 February, 2015 by Guy

The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is a useful resource for my Tintinnabuli Mathematica music project. For each sequence, the OEIS lists the first few terms and describes the algorithm that produces it. I use these algorithms to generate … Continue reading →

Posted in Complexity | Tagged integer sequence, Mathematica, mathematics, OEIS, Sloane's gap, tintinnabuli | 3 Comments

Programming Arvo Pärt

Posted on 11 November, 2011 by Guy

Tintinnabuli Mathematica is an experiment in programming Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli method of composition. The process has two stages. Firstly, a melodic part (or M-voice) is created by generating a string of notes and timings. Then harmonic tintinnabuli parts (T-voices) are … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Complexity, Music | Tagged Arvo Pärt, computer programming, Mathematica, Synth1, tintinnabuli, Tintinnabuli Mathematica, XILS 3 | 5 Comments