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Math + Music
Math meets music Geometry is the force that shapes both the sound of music and the novel research of Florida State University...
Sheldon Kessel
Mar 27, 20111 min read
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An Integrated Taxonomy of Musical Meaning...Finished!
I should have posted this here a long time ago. I finished this thing last summer and posted it on Scribd. This is the long-term project...
Sheldon Kessel
Feb 20, 20111 min read
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Interview with Mikel Rouse
Mikel Rouse is one of my favorite contemporary composers. I was super-excited to find this interview with him. #Rouse #interview #video
Sheldon Kessel
Jan 28, 20111 min read
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...new instruments
I came across this video of some sound-generating art objects. I’ve seen lots of videos around the internet lately of homebrew...
Sheldon Kessel
Mar 27, 20101 min read
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Sound Art
There seems to be a resurgent interest in musical robotics across the blogosphere. I've seen a number of posts about this pre-MIDI...
Sheldon Kessel
Jan 26, 201010 min read
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Crossover?
As I continue work on my massive paper relating musical meaning-creation to musical genre I become ever-more fascinated by music that is...
Sheldon Kessel
Jan 13, 20101 min read
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Fluid Piano
I recently had a discussion with one of my students about microtonal music. What a wonderful coincidence that I found this video today!...
Sheldon Kessel
Nov 24, 20091 min read
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It's Been Too Long
This blog was started as a way to disseminate a bit of my musicology research to the public, and, since my last post here back in May,...
Sheldon Kessel
Nov 22, 20092 min read
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The Supergenre Theory
As an undergraduate music composition student studying under Henry Gwiazda I became intrigued by an entire world of music I never knew...
Sheldon Kessel
May 6, 20092 min read
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Databases and Stores
I have more sites to offer that tackle the issue of musical categories. I completely forgot about them when writing the last entry here....
Sheldon Kessel
May 5, 20093 min read
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Musicological intro and stuff
One of my goals for this blog is to expound my theory of musical supergenre. My idea is one of musical taxonomy taking into account...
Sheldon Kessel
Apr 13, 20092 min read
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Greetings from a student of music
My name is Sheldon Kessel. I do music. I don't identify myself as a composer, musician, songwriter, engineer, producer , musicologist, or...
Sheldon Kessel
Apr 1, 20092 min read
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