Michael’s research aims firstly to explore fundamental relationships between music, mathematics, consciousness, and reality itself, and secondly to apply this perspective both psychologically and technologically to extend the radius our of creative expression in music and in life.
In order to achieve this goal a combination of techniques are employed, including intuitive-perceptual investigation, logico-mathematical analysis, philosophical reflection, imaginative formation, and computational modelling.
Music exhibits a unique capacity to depict the order of reality precisely in terms of qualitative experience. It is a microcosm through which the macrocosm of existence can be understood and related with. Just as we can use languages such as English or mathematics to describe and interact with the phenomena of music, we can use the language of music to describe and interface with reailty at the most basic of relational levels. The genetic structure of consciousness and existence share common harmonic archetypes, and this yields the often mentioned behavior of music as a universal language.