The Future of Music Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everyt
The idea of this monograph is to present an overview of decisive theoretical, computational, technological, aesthetical, artistic, economical, and sociological directions to create future music. It features a unique insight into dominant scientific and ar
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Music Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everything
The Future of Music
Guerino Mazzola • Jason Noer • Yan Pang • Shuhui Yao • Jay Afrisando • Christopher Rochester • William Neace
The Future of Music Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everything
Guerino Mazzola School of Music University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Jason Noer Department of Theatre Arts & Dance University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Yan Pang Department of Theatre Arts & Dance University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Shuhui Yao School of Music University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Jay Afrisando School of Music University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Christopher Rochester School of Music University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
William Neace School of Music University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
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Dedicated to Ida Mazzola
Photo by Guerino Mazzola
Preface
The idea for this book came from a reading of the trilogy The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End by the famous science fiction author Cixin Liu, which was recommended to me by my student Shuhui Yao. It was less the concrete narrative of these books—spread over the entire universe in time and space—than the very category of “science fiction” which was troubling. Science fiction deals with future and more or less fictitious perspectives of the world’s physical reality, together with narratives that inhabit those fictions. It prompted the authors to ask themselves as creators, theorists, and performers of music and dance whether there was somethin
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