Teaching
Courses and materials
Composition seminars, computational creativity and music technology at UC Berkeley; courses at the Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro. The lecture notes below were written for talks and seminars over many years and are unpublished — please get in touch before citing them.
University of California, BerkeleyComposition Seminar (203), Seminar in Contemporary Music (202), Computational Creativity for Music and the Arts (30), Music and Data (128), programming and DSP for music.
Conservatorio G. Rossini, PesaroLive electronics, mathematics for sound, digital signal processing, electroacoustic composition (2014–22).
Music, mathematics, computational creativity
- On convergence, continuity and compactness — 2023
- Does orchestration really exist? A perspective on (assisted) orchestration — 2018, slides
- Musica hic et nunc — 2017
- On room impulse response measurements with sine sweeps — 2017
- On the multidimensional Haar transform — 2016
- Hierarchical spectral clustering on scattering coefficients — 2015
- Building representations by factorization — 2015
- Logistic regression and artificial neural networks — 2015
- On the geometric interpretation of signals — 2015
- An introduction to audio features — 2015, slides; Max implementation with the external
features~: Intel macOS · Apple silicon macOS - Generalized series for spectral design (short draft) — 2013, with Max patches
- On physically-inspired synthesis of sounds — 2012, with slides and Max patches
- On compositional spaces — 2012, slides (Conservatoire de Paris)
- Introduzione alla sonificazione — 2012, slides
- Micro tutorial sulla spazializzazione — 2012, slides
- Chi ha paura dei numeri complessi? Sulla matematica del suono — 2012
- Appunti per lo studio dell'armonia — 2011
- Musica/complessità — breve glossario concettuale — 2011
- Sul tempo musicale e sulla sua percezione — 2011
- Modellazione digitale del pianoforte — 2010, slides
- Appunti sul filtro 1-polo — 2009
- Ortogonalità delle rappresentazioni esacordali — 2005
- Estensioni e sostituzioni nell'armonia jazz — 2005
- Raga indiani ed esacordi — 2005
- Microsounds — 2004, slides
- Cos'è la musica elettroacustica? — 2003
- Intelligenza del software — 2003, slides
- Dal numero al suono — 2003, slides
- Paradigmi della musica elettroacustica — 2003, slides
- G. Ligeti, Glissandi — un'analisi — 2002
- B. Truax, Wave Edge — un'analisi — 2002
Mathematical logic
- A survey on Geometry of Interaction — 2010, slides
- Lambda-calcoli e Sistema F: il progresso dell'astrazione — 2009, slides
Philosophy
- Sulla filosofia di Hegel — 2004
- Sulla filosofia di Marx — 2004
- Le descrizioni dell'infinito — 2004