Explores how music communicates emotions through various features and syntactic structures, impacting listeners' responses and performers' expressions.
Explores tonality, pitch profiles, key distance, and statistical analysis of pitch classes, using pitch spaces to analyze pitch distributions and the Tonnetz for a different tonality.
Examines the interplay between sound, architecture, and human evolution, highlighting their interconnectedness in shaping cultural and social dynamics.
Delves into the universal presence of beat, meter, and rhythm in music, exploring concepts like expressive timing, syncopation, and metrical structures.
Explores the instructor's childhood experiences during the Cultural Revolution in China, highlighting personal memories and the impact of that era on his identity.
