A new update on the max msp version of the delta system has allowed for exciting features to be musically explored including multi-variable control, poly-microtonal modulation, a matrix harmonizer, and an interval sequence iterator. The multi-variable control allows a musician to play at various intervallic levels with multiple keyboards to control either one pitch variable...
Harmonic math can be first understood by means of analogy: art is to geometry (as a sub-discipline of mathematics) as music is to harmonics. The field of geometry endows us with powerful conceptual tools to model situation, design structures, and solve problems in reality. It is able to do so because as a language, re-enforced...
Psychoharmonics represents an initial attempt to systematize a developmental method and integrated theoretical paradigm in order to account for a complex series of experiential investigations and insights into the harmonic or musical operation of consciousness, imagination, and creative will. Though in its early stages as a discipline, it offers a methodology to develop and explore...
The Delta System emerged from a mathematical and philosophical analysis of the nature of musical transformation and the techniques of mathematical representation where numbers can symbolize either positional/absolute or relative musical values. This reflects the two primary orientations towards music perception of absolute and relative pitch. The name of the delta system has been based...
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,...
The formulation of this sequence of ideas has come in response to a thought experiment recently posed to me by saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman. He proposed the consideration that one was able to travel back in time and interact with former stages of human civilization. Assuming that one were not immediately killed or incapacitated...
An objective of my interest in musical geometry is to create musical objects that are based on cross-modal perception or thought. Conceptualizing and experiencing music in terms of multi-sensory relationships has been one of the most stimulating exercises of cognition I have encountered to date. I hypothesize that by invoking other senses, the mind and...
As of the beginning of 2021, having reached a certain level of infrastructure development with my recording studio, I am turning my attention back to compositional and instrumental considerations as well as digital marketing to a limited degree. As a musical creator concerned with meaning, I am doing a lot of thinking, listening, research, and...
In recent years, a combination of personal realization, experience, and the influence of friends have guided me down the path of modern audio technology to develop an appreciation for the aesthetic value of what has become a mainstay of our current infrastructure for music listening. This began working on music in an isolated context, removed...