Complexity and the Structure of Music: Universal Features and Evolutionary Perspectives Across Cultures - Speakers

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Complexity and the Structure of Music: Universal Features and Evolutionary Perspectives Across Cultures
December 7 - 9, 2020 — Zoom

Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

University of North Texas - USA

Bio: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas: composer, flutist, computational materials physicist, and a member of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, and iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics, an Associate Fellow of IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University, and a Parma Recordings artist.

Miguel Fuentes

Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis; Santa Fe Institute - USA

Bio: Miguel Fuentes seeks to understand the behavior of Complex Systems from a fundamental-conceptual point of view, focusing on anomalies that are often important ingredients for the emergence of new emerging characteristics. He works in interdisciplinary research, from mathematical physics, with a focus on statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics and the use of information theory and complexity measures to characterize and understand complex behaviors in closely related systems with highly interdisciplinary interest, from hard physical models to social systems, the spread of information, ecology, public policies, etc.

Another important aspect of his research is the epistemological study of complex systems. This study focuses on the analysis of the evolution of scientific theories and the dynamics of innovations.

Miguel Fuentes holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, and also a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the National University of La Plata, Argentina.

He has worked and studied at places such as the Pierre et Marie Curie University, the Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice, the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute.

Gilberto Bernardes

University of Porto

Bio: Gilberto Bernardes has a multifaceted activity as a musician, professor, and researcher in sound and music computing. He holds a Ph.D. in digital media from the University of Porto and a Master of Music, cum laude, from the Amsterdamse Hogeschool Voor de Kunsten. His research agenda focuses on sampling-based synthesis techniques and cognitive-inspired pitch spaces, whose findings have been reported in over 40 scientific publications. His artistic activity counts with regular concerts in venues with recognized merit, such as Asia Culture Center (Korea); New York University (USA); Concertgebouw (Holland); and Casa da Música (Portugal). Bernardes is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Porto and a fellow researcher at INESC TEC, where he now leads the SMC Group.

Stefani Crabtree

University of Utah; Santa Fe Institute

Bio: Stefani Crabtree

Scot Gresham-Lancaster

composition, data sonification, performance

Bio: Scot Gresham-Lancaster
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The focus of my current research is on the unrealized potential of Listening to Data or sonification
• Visiting Researcher CNMAT UC Berkeley
• 1st Frank & Marjorie Malina Art/Science Research Fellow
• The HUB - 2018 Winner of the ZKM GigaHertz Lifetime Achievement Award
• Sound Designer/Composer [https:/https://www.deadwhitezombies.com deadwhitezombies.com]
• Dallas Observer, Best Theatre Company 2017
• Performer/Composer/Designer Talking Trees with Bert Barten
• 10+ Cellphone Operas "A new type of online experience" Cellphonia with Steve Bull

As a member of the HUB, Scot is an early pioneer of networked computer music and has developed many "cellphone operas". He has created a series of co-located international Internet performances and worked developing audio for several games and interactive products. He is an expert in educational technology.

Collaborator with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Pierre-Alain Hubert and many others. He was a student of Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, John Chowning, Robert Ashley, Terry Riley, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, David Cope among others.

Chris Kempes

Santa Fe Institute

Bio: Specific theories developed for individual processes or contexts are important and useful, but finding general principles that apply across vast amounts of phenomena is a central goal in science. In the broadest terms, this is Chris’ goal, to find theories and principles that apply to a wide range of biological scales and hierarchies.

Chris generally focuses his work on biological architecture—which may include phenomena ranging from explicit biological morphology to metabolic and genetic network structure—as an intermediate between organism physiology and environmental conditions. Mathematical and physical theories lie at the heart of his methodologies to predict how evolution has shaped architecture and how this, in turn, forms a foundation for reliable predictions of environmental response and interaction. His work spans the scales of genetic information architecture to the morphology of microbial individuals and communities to the regional variation of plant traits and their feedback with climate and available resources. In so doing, he aims to connect these first-order trends to the limitations imposed by environments in order to predict specific evolutionary events and consequences. Several collaborations with experimentalists and theorists have led to models that inform experiments and assimilate empirical data in fields including single-cell experimental biology and forest dynamics.

For example, Chris’ work on trees has applied a theory of plant architecture to derive individual physiology, interactions with the environment, and the unique whole forest structure of specific regions. This is theory that goes from individual branches to planetary-scale energy balance, but does so in a way that uses a small set of common principles and assumptions.

Roger Malina

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University of Texas, Dallas

Bio: Roger Malina

Elizabeth Margulis

Princeton University

Bio: Elizabeth Margulis is Professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab. Her research approaches music from the combined perspectives of music theory/musicology and cognitive science. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (Oxford University Press) received the 2014 Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, and the 2015 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Her latest book The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) was published in 2018 and has been translated into Spanish, Hungarian, and Japanese. Her cross-cultural research on narrative perceptions of music is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. She has been a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar. She is President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition.

Gustavo Martínez-Mekler

UNAM

Bio: Gustavo Martínez-Mekler

Tyler Marghetis

University of California, Merced

Bio: Tyler Marghetis studies the stable regimes and sudden ruptures of human thought and action. His research explores moments of insight in mathematicians, creative leaps in improvising musicians, and the shared conceptions of entire cultures. He is Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, and an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. A native of Montreal, Canada, he studied mathematics and philosophy as an undergraduate (Concordia) and cognitive science for his PhD (University of California, San Diego), and completed postdoctoral training at Indiana University Bloomington.

Helena Miton

Santa Fe Institute

Bio: Helena Miton

Marc Santolini

CRI Research, Paris

Bio: Marc Santolini

Caroline Shaw

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composition, performance

Bio: Caroline Shaw

David Stout

University of North Texas

Bio: David Stout

Dmitri Tymoczko

Princeton University

Bio: Dmitri Tymoczko is a composer and failed former philosopher who loves to think about how music works. On this site you can listen to my music, learn what I think makes music sound good, find links to writing both technical and non, download jazz transcriptions, and check out various pieces of software I have written. My newest CD is called Fools and Angels (Panoramic/New Focus, 2018) and contains four eclectic pieces for vocals, live instruments, and electronics.

Sølvi Ystad

CNRS-PRISM, Marseille

Bio: Sølvi Ystad

Damian Zanette

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CONICET, Bariloche - USA

Bio: Damian Zanette

Robert Zatorre

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McGill University

Bio: Robert Zatorre