Name: Mathematics and Computation in Music 2026 (MCM 2026)
Start: 2026-06-23T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-26T17:45:00-04:00
Location: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

Mathematics and Computation in Music 2026 (MCM 2026)

from Tuesday, 23 June 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 26 June 2026 (17:45)

Monday, 22 June 2026
Tuesday, 23 June 2026

08:50 Arrival, Registration Pickup, or Registration
Arrival, Registration Pickup, or Registration
08:50 - 09:15
09:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Charles Doran Mariana Montiel
Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Charles Doran
- Mariana Montiel
09:15 - 09:25
09:30 Voice Leading and Rhythm
09:30 - 12:10
Contributions

09:30 The Note at Infinity - Dmitri Tymoczko

10:05 Parsimonious Voice-Leading in Just Intonation and Hexatonic-like Cycles - Matt Klassen

11:05 Counting Rhythms Using Combinatorics on Words - Gonzalo Romero-Garcia

11:40 On Perfectly Balanced Sets: a Computational Investigation - Paul Lascabettes
12:15 Poster Session
12:15 - 12:45
Contributions

12:15 Poster: Tonnetz-Based Mathematical Invariants for the Analysis of Unequal-Tempered Tuning Systems - Kateri Doran

12:20 Poster: Musical Perspectives - Dmitri Tymoczko
12:50 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
12:50 - 13:50
14:00 Applications of Mathematics to Music Theory Analysis of Composers and Styles
14:00 - 16:25
Contributions

14:00 On Interval Permutations: Formalization and Analytical Examples - Xiao Dai

14:35 Note Spelling Without Scales in Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2 - Noah Kahrs

15:20 Persistent Homology on Pointed Chord Spaces - Alessandro Casali

15:55 Modeling End-Weighted and Goal-Directed Conceptions in Gamelan Gong Kebyar - Qiuwan Zhao
16:35 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin
16:35 - 17:10
Contributions

16:35 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin - Gilles Baroin
17:10 Dinner Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Dinner Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
17:10 - 18:45
19:00 Keynote Address
19:00 - 20:00
Contributions

19:00 Keynote: The Algebra of the 'Tongesellschaft': Towards a Mathematical Conceptualization of Tonal Interaction - Thomas Noll
20:10 Concert
20:10 - 21:30
Contributions

20:10 Concert: Hommage à Tom Johnson
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
09:00 Algebraic and Topological Perspectives on Scale Theory, Harmony, and Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Part 1
Part 1
09:00 - 11:15
Contributions

09:00 All-Interval Series in Cyclic Spaces - Ethan Bonnell

09:35 Alternative Symmetries and Systems - Luis R. A. Finotti

10:10 A Matrix Representation of Lewin Duality, and Dualizing Operators for Dual Groups of Triadic Transformations - Thomas M. Fiore Thomas Noll

10:45 A Theory of Scales and Orbit Covers - Drew Flieder
11:15 Coffee Break, Registration Pickup, or Registration
Coffee Break, Registration Pickup, or Registration
11:15 - 11:30
11:35 Algebraic and Topological Perspectives on Scale Theory, Harmony, and Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Part 2
Part 2
11:35 - 12:40
Contributions

11:35 Symmetries of the Modal Color Theory Hyperplane Arrangements - Paul M. Sherrill

12:10 Wick-Rotated Fibonacci Polynomials from the Scale-Step Interval Patterns of the Pentatonic and Diatonic Collections - M. A. Coury-Hall
12:40 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
12:40 - 13:40
13:50 Algebraic and Topological Perspectives on Scale Theory, Harmony, and Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Part 3
Part 3
13:50 - 16:05
Contributions

13:50 Harmonic Qualities of Generic Sets - Jason Yust

14:25 Modeling the Harmonic Syntax of Rock Music with Hidden Markov Models - Matthew Anthony Ludwig

15:00 An Algebraic-Symmetric Analysis of Counterpoint and Modulation in the Music of Claudio Monteverdi - Octavio Agustin-Aquino

15:35 Planar Projections of Tone Systems and Faithful Keyboards - Marek Zabka
16:10 Communication Performance
16:10 - 17:35
Contributions

16:10 Functional Harmony After Tonality: Composing with Orbit Covers - Drew Flieder

16:55 An Application of Alternative Symmetries and Systems - Ciro Visconti
17:35 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin
17:35 - 18:10
Contributions

17:35 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin, Wednesday - Gilles Baroin
17:40 Dinner Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Dinner Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
17:40 - 18:45

18:45 Walk 15 Minutes to László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building
Walk 15 Minutes to László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building
18:45 - 19:00
19:00 Keynote Address
19:00 - 20:00
Contributions

19:00 Keynote: Noam Elkies TBA - Noam Elkies
20:10 Concert
20:10 - 21:30
Contributions

20:10 Concert: Participant Compositions and Performances
Thursday, 25 June 2026
09:00 Mathematical Approaches to Music Cognition, Pitch Perception, Consonance-Dissonance, and Performance
09:00 - 12:50
Contributions

09:00 Towards a Formalization of Fretboards and Gestural Effort - Matt Chiu

09:35 Transformational Analysis of Geometric Nets under Isotonicity Constraints - Kristina Hurajova

10:10 Emergent Circular Structures in Multi-Sensory Affective Spaces: A Topological Analysis of Music-Taste Correspondences - Bruno Mesz

11:10 Consonance Ratings of Most Even Tetrachords Obtained by Variation of Phases - Luis Nuno

11:45 Sound and Visual Objects in n Dimensions in the Labyrinth of Time - Gilles Baroin Stephane de Gerando

12:20 Perceptual Signal Analysis and Eigenvalue-Weighted Metrics for Musical Audio Quality Assessment - Sanjay Majumder
12:50 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
12:50 - 13:50
14:00 Quantum Theory and Music
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Entropy of Quantum Farey Tunings - Franck Jedrzejewski

14:35 Entangled Function Leading - Thomas Noll

15:10 Density Matrix RNN (DM-RNN): A Quantum Information Theoretic Framework for Modeling Musical Context and Polyphony - Joonwon Seo
15:50 Electronic Music Demonstrations by Bard Preparatory Students
Electronic Music Demonstrations by Bard Preparatory Students
15:50 - 16:20
16:30 Communication Performance
16:30 - 17:10
Contributions

16:30 The QuArtet: Embodying Quantum Theory as an Ensemble - Thomas Noll
17:10 Walk 15 Minutes to Blithewood Manor for Banquet IF Pre-registered for Banquet, Otherwise On Own for Dinner at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Walk 15 Minutes to Blithewood Manor for Banquet IF Pre-registered for Banquet, Otherwise On Own for Dinner at Cafeteria or Restaurants
17:10 - 17:50

18:00 Banquet in Blithewood Manor IF Pre-registered, Otherwise Dinner at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Banquet in Blithewood Manor IF Pre-registered, Otherwise Dinner at Cafeteria or Restaurants
18:00 - 20:00
Friday, 26 June 2026
09:00 Algorithms and Modeling for Music and Music Related Phenomena
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 The Predictive Benefit of Order Increases in Melodic N-Gram Models - David Temperley

09:35 The Operatic Voice (I): Survey of Mathematical and Computational Models - Sara Sabag-Sabja

10:30 The Operatic Voice (II): Characterization of Squillo: Acoustic Parameters and Perceptual Validation - Sara Sabag-Sabja
11:10 All Invited: Meeting of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music - Pawel Dlotko Paco Gomez Clifton Callender Thomas Fiore Thomas Noll Gonzalo Romero-Garcia Mariana Montiel
All Invited: Meeting of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music
- Pawel Dlotko
- Paco Gomez
- Clifton Callender
- Thomas Fiore
- Thomas Noll
- Gonzalo Romero-Garcia
- Mariana Montiel
11:10 - 12:10
i. General synthesis of activities over the last 2 years (Mariana) ii. Website (Gonzalo, Thomas Noll) iii. Publications Committee Report (Paco Gómez, Cliff Callender) iv. Financial Report (Tom Fiore) v. Elections (Gonzalo, Thomas Noll) vi. Presentation of MCM 2028 in Warsaw (pre-recorded by Pawel Dlotko) (Tom Fiore, Mariana)
12:10 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants
12:10 - 13:10
13:15 Computational Approaches to Music
13:15 - 15:30
Contributions

13:15 Automated Harp Pedaling: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Pitch Spelling and Pedal Settings - Clifton Callender

13:50 An AI-Driven End-to-End Multimodal Architecture for Automatic Music Plagiarism Detection - Brian Martinez-Rodriguez

14:25 TransFolk: Transformer-Based Generation of Folk Melodies - Brian Martinez-Rodriguez

15:00 A New Version of OMM for Melodies and Rhythms - Carlos Agon
15:30 Applications of Mathematics to Music Theory Analysis of Composers and Styles
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Quantifying Costere’s Polarization of Pitch-Class Collections via Jensen–Shannon Divergence - Fernando Gualda
16:10 Communication Performance
16:10 - 16:50
Contributions

16:10 Rotation: An Algorithmic Musical Work Based on Temporal Translations, Pattern Variations, and Musical Tilings - Paul Lascabettes
16:50 Closing - Charles Doran Mariana Montiel
Closing
- Charles Doran
- Mariana Montiel
16:50 - 17:00