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From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
TU-Dresden, 16-17/04/2021

       From Music to Mathematics
            and backwards:
some perceptual and cognitive implications of algebraic,
      topological and category-theory models in
            computational music analysis

                      Moreno Andreatta
             CNRS / IRMA / Université de Strasbourg
              CNRS / IRCAM / Sorbonne Université
          http://repmus.ircam.fr/moreno/smir
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The double movement of a ‘mathemusical’ activity

 MATHEMATICS
          Mathematical                             General
                               generalisation
           statement                               theorem

                                                     application
               formalisation

                                    OpenMusic

            Musical                     Music       Music
 MUSIC      problem                     analysis    theory

                                                    Composition
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The double movement of a ‘mathemusical’ activity

 MATHEMATICS
             Mathematical                            General
                                 generalisation
              statement                              theorem

                                                       application
                 formalisation

 OpenMusic

               Musical                    Music       Music
 MUSIC         problem                    analysis    theory

                                                      Composition
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The double movement of a ‘mathemusical’ activity

 MATHEMATICS
          Mathematical                             General
                               generalisation
           statement                               theorem

                                                     application
               formalisation

                                OpenMusic

            Musical                     Music       Music
 MUSIC      problem                     analysis    theory

                                                    Composition
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The double movement of a ‘mathemusical’ activity

 MATHEMATICS
               Mathematical                                        General
                                               generalisation
                statement                                          theorem

                                                                     application
                   formalisation

     Tonnetz                       Hexachord    OpenMusic

                 Musical                                Music       Music
 MUSIC           problem                                analysis    theory

                                                                    Composition
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
Some examples of ‘mathemusical’ problems
  M. Andreatta : Mathematica est exercitium musicae, Habilitation Thesis, IRMA University of Strasbourg, 2010

 - The construction of Tiling Rhythmic Canons
 - The Z relation and the theory of homometric sets
 - Set Theory and Transformational Theory
 - Neo-Riemannian Theory, Spatial Computing and FCA
 - Diatonic Theory and Maximally-Even Sets
 - Periodic sequences and finite difference calculus
 - Block-designs and algorithmic composition
                                       Rhythmic Tiling
                                              Canons

                                                                                         Z-Relation and
                                                                                        Homometric Sets

                                                                                                               Finite Difference Calculus
                                                         Neo-Riemannian Theory
                                                         and Spatial Computing

                                                                                 Diatonic Theory and ME-Sets         Block-designs
Set Theory, andTransformation Theory
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The SMIR Project: advanced maths for the working musicologist
                                                                                                Signal-based
                                                                                                       Music
                                                                      Algebraic                 Information
                                                                        models                     Retrieval
                                                                  C
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                                                         B                      A
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                                                             G                 C#

                                                                 F#       B♭
                                                                      Topological
                                                                          models
                                                                          Categorical
                                                                              models

   Computational models
 Cognitive models
 Symbolic Music Information Research
è Andreatta, M. (2018), « From music to mathematics and backwards: introducing algebra, topology and category
theory into computational musicology », in M. Emmer and M. Abate (eds.), Imagine Math 6 - Springer, pp. 77-88
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
Neurosciences and Mathemusical Learning

                                          E. Bisesi   J.-L. Besada   C. Guichaoua

The Tonnetz Environment: A Web Environment for Computer- Aided “Mathemusical” Learning
and Research (paper to be presented at Computer Supported Music Education 2021, online)
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The galaxy of geometrical models at the service of music
From Music to Mathematics and backwards: IRCAM
The galaxy of geometrical models at the service of music
The galaxy of geometrical models at the service of music
The galaxy of geometrical models at the service of music
The galaxy of geometrical models at the service of music
« Musique et mathématiques »: a pedagogical film

è www.morenoandreatta.com
The three main symmetries in the Tonnetz
The Tonnetz as a simplicial complex
      L. Bigo, Représentation symboliques musicales et calcul spatial, PhD, Ircam / LACL, 2013

• Assembling chords related by some equivalence relation
   – Transposition/inversion: Dihedral group action on P(Zn)                                         Louis Bigo

                                                                                          …
                                                                                                 C
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Intervallic
structure                                                                                                         A
                                      major/minor triads                          B                  F
                                                                                             KTI[3,4,5]
                                                                                      G                       C#

                                                                                          F#
                                                                                                      B♭
Mixing Algebra, Topology and Category Theory…

                                                 A. Popoff

         C
                 E

B                          A
             F                                  A. Ehresmann

    G                 C#

        F#       B♭
                                                  C. Agon

…in a computational environment
The categorical vs paradigmatic action-based approach

                     Anton Webern, Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11/2
Combining Algebra and the theory of Lattices
                                           Zalewski / Vieru / Halsey & Hewitt         352
                    Cyclic group
                                                 Forte/ Rahn                       224
                                                 Carter
                                                           Morris / Mazzola     158
                                                                         Estrada         77

                     Dihedral group
                                                                                              Julio Estrada

          Affine                    Symmetric group
          group

                                                                                                       77
1     2   3    4     5    6    7      8      9      10    11    12
1     6   19   43    66   80   66     43     19     6     1     1
1     6   12   29    38   50   38     29     12     6     1     1
1     5   9    21    25   34   25     21     9      5     1     1
1     6   12   15    13   11   7      5      3      2     1     1
Permutohedron and Tonnetz: a structural inclusion
                           R

                                                              P

                                    L
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                                P

                                        R
                               L                     P

                                            1   =   (3 4 5)
                                            2   =   (4 3 5)
                                            3   =   (3 5 4)
                                            4   =   (4 5 3)
                                            5   =   (5 3 4)
                                            6   =   (5 4 3)
Classifying Tonnetze as Simplicial Chord Complexes
P. Lascabettes, Homologie Persistante Appliquée à la Reconnaissance de Genres Musicaux, Master 1, ENS Saclay

                                                                                             Paul Lascabettes
è https://guichaoua.gitlab.io/web-hexachord/
The style...is the space!
3                               2
Spatial music analysis via Hexachord

èhttp://www.lacl.fr/~lbigo/hexachord
The geometric character of musical style
                                                                                                                                                                        Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV 328
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            è Bigo L., M. Andreatta, "Musical analysis with simplicial chord spaces", in D. Meredith (ed.),
            Computational Music Analysis, Springer, 2015
Symmetries in Paolo Conte’s Madeleine
     Lab Reb Sib   Mib Si   Mi   Reb Fa# Re   Sol Mi   La   Re   Lab Reb Do Mib

                                                                                  !
Almost total covering of the major-chords space
La sera non è più la tua canzone (after Mario Luzi)
                   La sera non è più la tua canzone,         Le soir n’est plus ta chanson,
                   è questa roccia d’ombra traforata         c’est ce rochet d’ombre transpercé
                   dai lumi e dalle voci senza fine,         par les lumières et les voix sans fin,
                   la quiete d’una cosa già pensata.         la paix d’une chose déjà pensée.

                                                             Ah, cette lumière vive et claire vient
                   Ah questa luce viva e chiara viene        uniquement de toi, tu es si proche
                   solo da te, sei tu così vicina            du vrai d’une chose connue,
                   al vero d’una cosa conosciuta,            tu as pour nom une parole qui est passée
                   per nome hai una parola ch’è passata      dans l’intimité du cœur où elle s’est
                   nell’intimo del cuore e s’è perduta.      perdue .
Gilles Baroin                                                Tombé est plus qu’un signe de la vie,
                   Caduto è più che un segno della vita,     tu te reposes, du voyage tu es revenue
                   riposi, dal viaggio sei tornata           à l’intérieur de toi même, tu es
                   dentro di te, sei scesa in questa pura    descendue dans cette
                   sostanza così tua, così romita            pure substance qui est si tienne,
                   nel silenzio dell’essere, (compiuta).     si éloignée
                                                             dans le silence de l’être, achevée.

                   L’aria tace ed il tempo dietro a te       L’air se tait et le temps derrière toi
                   si leva come un’arida montagna            se lève tel une montagne aride
                   dove vaga il tuo spirito e si perde,      où plane ton esprit et se perd,
                   un vento raro scivola e ristagna.         un vent rare glisse et stagne.
                                                             (tr. Antonia Soulez, philosophe et poète)

                                                          Music: M. Andreatta
                                                          Arrangement and mix: M. Bergomi & S.
                                                          Geravini
                                                          (Perfect Music Production)
                                                          Mastering: A. Cutolo (Massive Arts
                                                          Studio, Milan)
                           M. Luzi (1914-2005)
Reading Beethoven backwards

                              time
Gilles Baroin
From poetry to song writing:
                   hamiltonian compositional strategies
A part (Andrée Chedid, poème tiré du recueil Rhymes Collection Poésie/Gallimard (n. 527), Gallimard, 2018)

À part le temps
Et ses rouages
À part la terre              Intro               Refrain Riff               Refrain Refrain              Refrain
En éruptions
À part le ciel
Pétrisseur de nuages
À part l’ennemi
Qui génère l’ennemi

À part le désamour                   Couplet 1                  Couplet 2                   Instrumentale          Coda
Qui ronge l’illusion
À part la durée
Qui moisit nos visages

À part les fléaux
À part la tyrannie
À part l’ombre et le crime
Nos batailles nos outrages

Je te célèbre ô Vie
Entre cavités et songes
Intervalle convoité
Entre le vide et le rien
Exploring Hamiltonian trajectories in song writing
Exploring Hamiltonian trajectories in song writing
Rotation of the trajectory and Negative Harmony

èhttp://www.lacl.fr/~lbigo/hexachord
è DEMO

12 rotations
 (=12 inversions)
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