Do chords that swapp thirds and sevenths retain the same \harmonic feel\ read more →

What's Symbolic Optimization A while ago I was entertaining problems in the intersection of symbolic manipulation of expressions and Deep Learning. In particular I was interested in finding "optimal" expressions in some way. So, imagine you ... read more →

Intro I want to continue the discussion in the last post about transformations of modes and sets of tones. I want to explore the following question: what are transformations that make sense and what are they effect on scales, tone sets and modes. The ... read more →

Intro Recently I've been listening to a 12tone video on YouTube about negative harmony, a concept recently popularized by musician Jacob Collier. On the related links I found a bunch of videos from this channel with "negative harmony" versi ... read more →

A few years ago I was very impressed for learning the Boehm-Berarducci encoding, which is a way for encoding Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) into a kind of lambda calculus that is well typed called System F. The first thing I asked myself was in which la ... read more →