Thursday, April 13th, 2017:

• 6:00 pm: Dinner with Maria and friends (location: Siam Orchid, Bellevue, KY)
  • Maria
  • Roger
  • Brooke
  • Lisa
  • Andy

Friday, April 14th:

"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom; Wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best" -- Frank Zappa (thanks, Richard)

• 9 am -- 10 am (MEP 292):
  • 9:00 -- Mobius musical welcome (Andy Long: Take Five).

• 10 am -- 11 am (MEP 292): Sequential Music
  • 10:00 -- Duk Lee and Debbie Burgess (Asbury College), Part I: Affinity of Math and Music (throughout history)
  • 10:30 -- Duk Lee and Debbie Burgess, Part II: Computer Music Inspired by the Fibonacci Sequence.

• 11 am -- 12 am (MEP 292):
  • 11:00 -- Permutations, linear algebra, and music (Steve Wilkinson)
  • 11:30 -- Markovian Music (Christopher Groppe: Shared work with Richard Fox)

• Noon-1:00 pm: Lunch (MEP lobby, 4th floor atrium)

• 1 pm -- 2 pm (BC 111): The AI hour
  • 1:00 -- AI-based music (Richard Fox: Using AI to compose music has been a research topic for decades. Early rule-based approaches lacked originality while later approaches of trained neural network, genetic algorithms or stochastic generation from Markov chains all lacked the "composition" perspective, leading to somewhat random, incoherent output. Combining a rule-based approach for planning, stochastic generation for an initial sequence, and genetic algorithms to evolve better sequences of music is an approach being tried at NKU. I will introduce these AI approaches, talk about how they are being combined and share some results to date.)
  • 1:30 -- The Music of Neural Networks and Deep learning (Kevin Kirby: Kevin and I are still working out the details of his title, but he has tentatively accepted my tentative title Kirby's deep learning music thing, with Information Geometry to make it more mathy)

• 2 pm -- 3 pm (BC 111):
  • 2:00 -- Patterns in Folk Music (Dan Curtin: An Introduction to Structural Patterns In Music, a Discussion and Demonstration. Examples from Irish Dance Music that illustrate basic structural patterns as a start to studying the structure of musical phrasing.)
  • 2:30 -- Recursive music (Kristen Ghouse)

• 3:05 pm: Maria Mannone: Art Helps Math, Math Helps Art (BC 111) (please share the flyer).

• Pause

• 5:30 pm: Dinner with Maria and friends (location: Guru India Restaurant, 2303 Buttermilk Crossing, Crescent Springs, KY) (We'll plan to eat around 6:15).
  • Maria
  • Steve W.
  • Kevin K.
  • Duk Lee and Asbury friends
  • John Gardner
  • Andy