Department Colloquium - William Sethares: "William Sethares (U. Wisconsin) will be giving a colloquium talk on Topology of Musical Data Thursday, March 8 at 3:30 pm in SSM A104. Everyone is welcome.
Abstract: Techniques for discovering topological structures in large data sets are now becoming practical. This talk argues why the musical realm is a particularly promising arena in which to expect to find nontrivial topological features. The analysis is able to recover three important topological features in music: the circle of notes, the circle of fifths, and the rhythmic repetition of timelines, often pictured in the necklace notation.
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