The Seminar List

Aesthetics

• Acquisition of knowledge
• The Aesthetics of computing*
• The Aesthetics of technology*
• Analysis as a reflection of the complexity of human personality*
• Art as a reflection of the complexity of human personality*
• Art, expression and order*
• Categorisation*
• Criteria for creation*
• Expressing music
• Frames and framing*
• Homology, analogy and analysis*
• What is an instrument?
• Light, sound and synaesthesia*
• Music and madness*

Techniques

• Bach chorales
• Chance and aleatoricism
• Colour in music*
• Common composition techniques*
• Film for music*
• Harmonic rhythm
• Harmony and tonality
• Composition and improvisation*
• Introduction to microtonality*
• Minimalism*
• My Stuff*
• Notations
• Writing for the piano*
• Score formatting
• Introduction to serialism
• From sonatas to blocks

Musicology

• Music in contemporary Britain*
• Class and music*
• Music and the establishment*
• Gangster rap - music and censorship*
• Gender and technology*
• Music and the internet*
• Origins of modernism*
• Modernism and Postmodernism*
• Music and movement*
• Painting and picturing
• Performance technology*
• Psychology and music
• Roles and functions
• Self-reference*
• Introduction to serialism
• Sex and music*
• Time and music*
• Music and the USA*
• Listening to visions*

Philosophy

• An alliance of ideas*
• Cause, effect and purpose*
• Control*
• Defining music
• A conversation with Einstein's brain*
• Intuition*
• Memetically sealed pop*
• Music and morality*
• Music and intention*
• Justification*
• Music and meaning*
• Music and memes*
• Music makes us...*
• Myths, music and religion*
• Philosophy, culture and music*
• On not seeing the Wood from the trees*

Numbers

• Number theory*
• Music and Numbers*
• Seeing through the Numbers*
• Mathematics and music*
• On not seeing the wood for the trees*

Technology

• What is an instrument?
• Resonance*
• Codes and Coding*
• Performance Technology*
• Different Realms*
• Spatialisation*
• Top Down and Bottom Up*

Composers

• Music in comtemporary Britain*
• Bela Bartók
• Beethoven
• Luciano Berio
• Harrison Birtwistle
• Pierre Boulez
• John Cage
• Elliot Carter
• Gyorgy Ligeti
• Olivier Messiaen
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Igor Stravinsky
• Edgard Varese
• Trevor Wishart

Analysis

• Ligeti - Double Concerto*

Electronic and Electroacoustic Music

• Music, sound, and modernism*
• Musique Concrète*
• Seeing through the Numbers*
• Mathematics and music*
• On not seeing the wood for the trees*

Sonic Art and Performance Technology

• Introduction to Sonic Art
• The Turner Prize*
• The Origins of Installation Art*
• Notation as Art*

Papers

• Texts Index
• Computer Technology and Musical Expression
• Virtual and Musical Reality

• Metaform and Metaforming
• Evolution, Computers and the Musically Beautiful
• The Fabric of Music
• Is Music Real?

• Metaphor, Memes and the Cartesian Music-Hall
• Why do we Sing?
• The Sound Archive of the Library of Babel

• Music and Technocracy

Presentations

• Bioacoustics
• Graphic Abstraction

• Installation Art
• Metaform and Metaforming

• Notation as Art
• Painting Music

• Sonic Art
• Synaesthesia