Musical Chords and Mathematical Necklaces: Composing Scores for an Electronic Piano

Fri, 24 Feb 2012

Musical Chords and Mathematical Necklaces: Composing Scores for an Electronic Piano

6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday 1 February 2005

Speaker: Alan Sutcliffe, co-founder CAS

BCS London HQ
First Floor - The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London WC2E 7HA

The Davidson Building is on the east side of Southampton Street about 50m from the Strand.

The number of necklaces of 12 beads each black or white is the same as the number of chords of 0 to 12 notes from an octave of semitones.

Peter Zinovieff and Alan Sutcliffe are collaborating on a system to compose printed scores and realise them on an electronic piano.

One piece will use all the chords there are.

The context of this project will lead to talk of composition and improvisation and of music that no-one would compose.

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