Musicians* use notes and chords as words of their personal dictionary to create musical phrases. Quite often, these phrases are shaped as tension patterns over time, drawing the attention of the listener to particular moments thanks to spec

April 3, 2015 42 min

Visualization of musical structures is a powerful tool to assist composers and improvisers in their creative processes. Interpreting the Tonnetz as a simplicial complex it is possible to visualize notes and chords as subcomplexes endowed wi

May 29, 2015 37 min

Soutenance de thèse devant un jury composé de : Mme Elaine Chew , Rapporteure M. Davide Luigi Ferrario, Rapporteur M. Massimo Ferri, Examinateur M. Jean-Louis Giavitto, Examinateur M. Moreno Andreatta, co-Directeur de thèse M. Goffred

December 10, 2015 38 min

Is it possible to represent the horizontal motions of the melodic strands of a contrapuntal composition, or the main ideas of a jazz standard as mathematical entities? In this work, we suggest a collection of novel models for the representa

December 10, 2015 49 min