MCM 2011 Program and Related Events

Saturday June 11

3pm-5pm
Palais de la Découverte, Salle des conférences

General public Maths/Music Conference (by Moreno Andreatta & Carlos Agon, in collaboration with Robin Jamet and Pierre Audin, scientific team of the Palais de la Découverte).

Wednesday June 15

8.30am-9.30am Centre Pompidou (CP)	Welcome and registration of the participants
9.30am-11.15am CP, petite salle	Welcome by Hugues Vinet (Ircam Scientific Director) Paper Session 1: Word and scales theory I Karst De Jong, Thomas Noll Fundamental Passacaglia: Harmonic Functions and the Modes of the Musical Tetractys Norman Carey On a Class of Locally Symmetric Sequences: The Right Infinite Word Λ David Clampitt Sensitive Interval Property for Scales as Words in the Free Group F2
11.30am-1.00pm CP, petite salle	Paper Session 2: Word and scales theory II Marek Żabka Introduction to Scale Theory over Words in Two Dimensions Julian Hook Spelled Heptachords David Meredith Tonal Scales and Minimal Simple Pitch Class Cycles
1.15pm-2.15pm Ircam, Salle Stravinsky	Meeting of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematics and Music
2.30pm-3.30pm CP, petite salle	Paper Session 3: History, philosophy and epistemology Tito M. Tonietti Music Between Hearing and Counting (A Historical Case Chosen Within Continuous Long-lasting Conflicts) Dmitri Tymoczko Mazzola’s Model of Fuxian Counterpoint
4.00pm-5.30pm CP, petite salle	Panel Session "Bridging the Gap: Computational and Mathematical Approaches in Music Research". With the participation of Alain Marsden (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University and editor Journal of New Music Research), Guerino Mazzola (University of Minnesota, USA), Gerard Wiggins (Goldsmiths’ College, University of London). Organizers: Anja Volk (Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University Institute for Logic) and Aline Honingh (Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam).
6.30pm-7.30pm Ircam, Espace de Projection (Espro)	Welcome by Frank Madlener (Ircam Director). Pierre Boulez / Alain Connes (a dialogue coordinated by Gérard Assayag, director of the UMR STMS) – Simultaneous translation French/English and Video recording + France Culture Broadcasting.
8.30pm Ircam, Espace de Projection	"Maths/Music" Concert, ensemble Musikfabrik. Works by Daniele Ghisi (abroad, World Premiere), Karim Haddad (Ce qui dort dans l’ombre sacrée…), György Ligeti (Monument.Selbstportrait. Bewegung), Karlheinz Stockhausen (Kontakte).

Thursday June 16

8.30am-9.30am Centre Pompidou (CP)	Welcome and registration of the participants
9.30am-10.30am CP, petite salle	Paper Session 4: Geometrical, topological and computational models I Andrew J. Milne, Martin Carlé, William A. Sethares, Thomas Noll, Simon Holland Scratching the Scale Labyrinth Nicholas Stylianou Exploding the Monochord: An Intuitive Spatial Representation of Microtonal Relational Structures
11.00am-12.00am CP, petite salle	Paper Session 5: Geometrical, topological and computational models II Louis Bigo, Jean-Louis Giavitto, Antoine Spicher Building Topological Spaces for Musical Objects Agustín Martorell, Emila Gómez Two-Dimensional Visual Inspection of Pitch-Space, Many Time-Scales and Tonal Uncertainty Over Time
12.30pm-2.30pm Ircam, niveau -2	Selected Posters Session 1 (+ Buffet sandwiches) Franck Jedrzejewski Plactic Classification of Modes [Cancelled] Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Michael Epitropakis, Michael Vrahatis Feature Extraction Using Pitch Class Profile Information Entropy [Cancelled] Tom Hedges, Martin Rohrmeier Exploring Rameau and Beyond: A Corpus Study of Root Progression Theories Richard Parncutt, Fabio Kaiser, Craig Sapp Historical Development of Tonal Syntax: Counting Pitch-class Sets in 13th-16th Century Polyphony Jocelyn Ho From 2D to 3D: Using Geometry and Group Theory to Model Motivic Structure in Musical Composition Fani Kosona, Leontios Hadjileontiadis Catastrophe Theory: An Enhanced Structural and Ontological Space in Music Composition Mika Kuuskankare Enriched Score Access for Computer Assisted Composition in PWGL
2.30pm-3.30pm Ircam, Salle Stravinsky and Studio 5	Around A Geometry of Music. An open discussion on the foundation of American and European Maths/Music-theoretical Traditions. With the participation of Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University). Session chairs: Emmanuel Amiot (mathematician, Perpignan, France) and Julian Hook (music theorist, Indiana University, USA).
4.00pm-5.30pm Ircam, salles Shannon, Stravinsky + studio 5	Parallel Workshops: Reinforcement Learning and Computational Methods in Music Cognition, by Nori Jacoby (Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University) Maximal Even Sets, by Jack Douthett (Central New Mexico Community College), Richard Plotkin (State University of New York at Buffalo), Richard Krantz (Metropolitan State College of Denver), and Peter Steinbach (Central New Mexico Community College) From Circle to Hyperspheres, when the Tonnetze go 4D, by Gilles Baroin (University of Toulouse)
6.30pm-7.30pm CP, grande salle	Alain Badiou (philosopher): Mathématique et esthétique (simultaneous translation in English).
8.30pm CP, grande salle	Concert: Webern/Nunes. Ensemble Remix. Works by Emmanuel Nunes (Einspielung 1; Wandlungen), Anton Webern (Concerto, op. 24; Symphonie, op. 21) and Bruno Maderna (Juilliard Serenade).

Friday June 17

8.30am-9.30am Ircam	Welcome and registration of the participants.
9.30am-11.30am Ircam, Espace de Projection (Espro)	Paper Session 6: Set Theory and Transformational Theory Robert Peck Nth Roots of Pitch-Class Inversion José Oliveira Martins Interval Cycles, Affinity Spaces and Transpositional Networks Thomas M. Fiore, Thomas Noll Commuting Groups and the Topos of Triads Richard Plotkin Cardinality Transformations in Diatonic Space
12.00am-1.00pm Ircam, Espace de Projection	Paper Session 7: Computational analysis and cognitive musicology I Edward Large Musical Tonality, Neural Resonance and Hebbian Learning Ian Quinn, Panayotis Mavromatis Voice-Leading Prototypes and Harmonic Function in Two Chorale Corpora
1.00pm-3.00pm Ircam, niveau -2	Selected Posters Session 2 (+ Buffet sandwiches) Aline Honingh, Rens Bod Clustering and Classification of Music by Interval Categories Mathieu Bergeron, Darrell Conklin Subsumption of Vertical Viewpoint Patterns Gilles Baroin The Planet-4D Model: An Original Hypersymmetric Music Space Based on Graph Theory Keiji Hirata, Satoshi Tojo, Masatoshi Hamanaka Melodic Morphing Algorithm in Formalism Chantal Buteau, Christina Anagnostopoulou Motivic Topologies: Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Music Analysis Atte Tenkanen Surveying Musical Form through Melodic-Motivic Similarities
3.00pm-4.00pm Ircam, Espace de Projection	Paper session 8: Computational analysis and cognitive musicology II Benny Sluchin, Mikhail Malt Open Form and Two Combinatorial Musical Models: The Cases of Domaines and Duel Alexandre Popoff Indeterminate Music and Probability Spaces: the Case of John Cage's Number Pieces [Cancelled]
4.30pm-6.00pm Ircam, Espace de Projection	Paper Session 9: Improvisation and gestures theory Clément Canonne, Nicolas Garnier A Model for Collective Free Improvisation Isaac Schankler, Jordan B.L. Smith, Alexandre R.J. François, Elaine Chew Emergent Formal Structures of Factor Oracle-Driven Musical Improvisations Guerino Mazzola, Florian Thalmann Musical Composition and Gestural Diagrams
6.15pm-7.00pm Ircam, Espace de Projection	Stephen Wolfram (Videoconference from Boston, USA): "Music from the Computational Universe". Session chair: Thomas Noll (ESMuC / TU-Berlin, co-editor en chief of the Journal of Mathematics and Music).
8.30pm Cité de la Musique	Concert "Cantates". Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart / Ensemble intercontemporain. Works by Johannes Maria Staud (Par ici! World premiere), Ivan Fedele (Animus anima), Bruno Mantovani (Cantate n°1).

Saturday June 18 (Mathematics and Art at the Palais de la Découverte)

Free entrance after booking and checking in at the MCM 2011 registration desk.
Booking required: see contact section.

10.00am-11.00am Palais de la Découverte	Reception
11.00am-1.pm Palais de la Découverte, Salle des conférences	Round Table around the creativity in Mathematics and Arts. With the participation of Jean-Marc Lévy Leblond (physicist and essayist), Claude Bruter (mathematician and president of the ESMA), Yves Hellegouarch (mathematician), Jean-Paul Allouche (mathematician), Jean-Claude Risset (physicist and composer), Tom Johnson (composer), Jacques Mandelbrojt (painter and physicist)
3.00pm-6.00pm Palais de la Découverte	Guided Tour of the "Maths/Art" Exhibition and interactive platforms on computer-aided models in music analysis and composition. With the participation of Thomas Noll (ESMuC / TU-Berlin), Martin Carlé (Humboldt University of Berlin), Gilles Baroin (University of Toulouse), Jérémie Garcia (Ircam / In Situ – University of Paris XI), Pierre Beauguitte (Ircam / UPMC) and Benjamin Lévy (Ircam / UPMC. To be confirmed).

Venues

Ircam
1, place I. Stravinsky, 75004 Paris
Metro Hotel de Ville / Rambuteau / Les Halles / Chatelet
(+33) 1 44 78 48 16
www.ircam.fr
See Venue / Travel Info

Centre G. Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
Metro Hotel de Ville / Rambuteau / Les Halles / Chatelet
(+33) 1 44 78 12 33
www.centrepompidou.fr/

Palais de la Découverte
Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008 Paris
Metro Champs-Elysées Clémenceau / Franklin Roosevelt
(+33) 1 56 43 20 20
www.palais-decouverte.fr/

Cité de la Musique
221, avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris
Metro Porte de Pantin
(+33) 1 44 84 45 00
www.cite-musique.fr

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MCM 2011 - Mathematics and Computation in Music