Mathematics and Computation in Music 2026 (MCM 2026)

23 Jun 2026, 08:30 → 26 Jun 2026, 17:45 US/Eastern

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

TentativeSchedule_Version_2026-05-20.pdf

Tuesday 23 June

08:50 → 09:15 Arrival, Registration Pickup, or Registration

09:15 → 09:25 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speakers: Mariana Montiel, Charles Doran

09:30 → 12:10 Voice Leading and Rhythm

09:30 The Note at Infinity

Speaker: Dmitri Tymoczko

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

Speaker: Matt Klassen

10:35 Coffee Break, Registration Pickup, or Registration

11:05 Counting Rhythms Using Combinatorics on Words

Speaker: Gonzalo Romero-Garcia

11:40 On Perfectly Balanced Sets: a Computational Investigation

Speaker: Paul Lascabettes

12:15 → 12:45 Poster Session

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

Speaker: Kateri Doran

12:20 Poster: Musical Perspectives

Speaker: Dmitri Tymoczko

12:50 → 13:50 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants

14:00 → 16:25 Applications of Mathematics to Music Theory Analysis of Composers and Styles

14:00 On Interval Permutations: Formalization and Analytical Examples

Speaker: Xiao Dai

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

Speaker: Noah Kahrs

15:05 Break

15:20 Persistent Homology on Pointed Chord Spaces

Speaker: Alessandro Casali

15:55 Modeling End-Weighted and Goal-Directed Conceptions in Gamelan Gong Kebyar

Speaker: Qiuwan Zhao

16:35 → 17:10 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin

16:35 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin

Speaker: Gilles Baroin

17:10 → 18:45 Dinner Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants

19:00 → 20:00 Keynote Address

19:00 Keynote: The Algebra of the 'Tongesellschaft': Towards a Mathematical Conceptualization of Tonal Interaction

Speaker: Thomas Noll

20:10 → 21:30 Concert

20:10 Concert: Hommage à Tom Johnson

Wednesday 24 June

09:00 → 11:15 Algebraic and Topological Perspectives on Scale Theory, Harmony, and Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Part 1

09:00 All-Interval Series in Cyclic Spaces

Speaker: Ethan Bonnell

09:35 Alternative Symmetries and Systems

Speaker: Luis R. A. Finotti

10:10 A Matrix Representation of Lewin Duality, and Dualizing Operators for Dual Groups of Triadic Transformations

Speakers: Thomas M. Fiore, Thomas Noll

10:45 A Theory of Scales and Orbit Covers

Speaker: Drew Flieder

11:15 → 11:30 Coffee Break, Registration Pickup, or Registration

11:35 → 12:40 Algebraic and Topological Perspectives on Scale Theory, Harmony, and Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Part 2

11:35 Symmetries of the Modal Color Theory Hyperplane Arrangements

Speaker: Paul M. Sherrill

12:10 Wick-Rotated Fibonacci Polynomials from the Scale-Step Interval Patterns of the Pentatonic and Diatonic Collections

Speaker: M. A. Coury-Hall

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants

13:50 → 16:05 Algebraic and Topological Perspectives on Scale Theory, Harmony, and Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Part 3

13:50 Harmonic Qualities of Generic Sets

Speaker: Jason Yust

14:25 Modeling the Harmonic Syntax of Rock Music with Hidden Markov Models

Speaker: Matthew Anthony Ludwig

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

Speaker: Octavio Agustin-Aquino

15:35 Planar Projections of Tone Systems and Faithful Keyboards

Speaker: Marek Zabka

16:10 → 17:35 Communication Performance

16:10 Functional Harmony After Tonality: Composing with Orbit Covers

Speaker: Drew Flieder

16:55 An Application of Alternative Symmetries and Systems

Speaker: Ciro Visconti

17:35 → 18:10 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin

17:35 MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin, Wednesday

Speaker: Gilles Baroin

17:40 → 18:45 Dinner Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants

18:45 → 19:00 Walk 15 Minutes to László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building

19:00 → 20:00 Keynote Address

19:00 Keynote: Noam Elkies TBA

Speaker: Noam Elkies

20:10 → 21:30 Concert

20:10 Concert: Participant Compositions and Performances

Composer: Kateri Doran
Performers: Kateri Doran (flute), Saoirse Doran (clarinet, piano)

Quantum Loops — solo flute (ca. 6 min)

Mirror Loops — flute and clarinet (ca. 3 min)

Euler’s Toccata — solo piano (ca. 3 min)

Composer: Octavio Agustín-Aquino
Performer: Octavio Agustín-Aquino (guitar)

Gabriela (ca. 8:30 minutes in total)
La toninera
Camila
Ximena

Composer: Brian Martínez Rodríguez
Performer: Octavio Agustín-Aquino (guitar)

Preludios de bitácora: I. Bitácora de la vista sobre el mar (ca. 4 minutes)

Other Composers and Performers from the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music

TBA

Composer: Clifton Callender

TBA

Composer: Jason Yust
Performers: Ensemble TBA

Prime Meridian (ca. 6 min)

Thursday 25 June

09:00 → 12:50 Mathematical Approaches to Music Cognition, Pitch Perception, Consonance-Dissonance, and Performance

09:00 Towards a Formalization of Fretboards and Gestural Effort

Speaker: Matt Chiu

09:35 Transformational Analysis of Geometric Nets under Isotonicity Constraints

Speaker: Kristina Hurajova

10:40 Coffee Break, Registration, and MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin

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

Speaker: Luis Nuno

11:45 Sound and Visual Objects in n Dimensions in the Labyrinth of Time

Speakers: Gilles Baroin, Stephane de Gerando

12:20 Perceptual Signal Analysis and Eigenvalue-Weighted Metrics for Musical Audio Quality Assessment

Speaker: Sanjay Majumder

12:50 → 13:50 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants

14:00 → 15:40 Quantum Theory and Music

14:00 Entropy of Quantum Farey Tunings

Speaker: Franck Jedrzejewski

14:35 Entangled Function Leading

Speaker: Thomas Noll

15:10 Density Matrix RNN (DM-RNN): A Quantum Information Theoretic Framework for Modeling Musical Context and Polyphony

Speaker: Joonwon Seo

15:50 → 16:20 Electronic Music Demonstrations by Bard Preparatory Students

16:30 → 17:10 Communication Performance

16:30 The QuArtet: Embodying Quantum Theory as an Ensemble

Speaker: Thomas Noll

17:10 → 17:50 Walk 15 Minutes to Blithewood Manor for Banquet IF Pre-registered for Banquet, Otherwise On Own for Dinner at Cafeteria or Restaurants

18:00 → 20:00 Banquet in Blithewood Manor IF Pre-registered, Otherwise Dinner at Cafeteria or Restaurants

Friday 26 June

09:00 → 11:00 Algorithms and Modeling for Music and Music Related Phenomena

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

Speaker: David Temperley

09:35 The Operatic Voice (I): Survey of Mathematical and Computational Models

Speaker: Sara Sabag-Sabja

10:05 Coffee Break, Registration, and MatheMusical Virtual Museum & Planet Voices by Gilles Baroin

10:30 The Operatic Voice (II): Characterization of Squillo: Acoustic Parameters and Perceptual Validation

Speaker: Sara Sabag-Sabja

11:10 → 12:10 All Invited: Meeting of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music

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)

Speakers: Mariana Montiel, Gonzalo Romero-Garcia, Thomas Noll, Paco Gomez, Clifton Callender, Thomas Fiore, Pawel Dlotko

12:10 → 13:10 Lunch Break: On Own at Cafeteria or Restaurants

13:15 → 15:30 Computational Approaches to Music

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

Speaker: Clifton Callender

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

Speaker: Brian Martinez-Rodriguez

14:25 TransFolk: Transformer-Based Generation of Folk Melodies

Speaker: Brian Martinez-Rodriguez

15:00 A New Version of OMM for Melodies and Rhythms

Speaker: Carlos Agon

15:30 → 16:00 Applications of Mathematics to Music Theory Analysis of Composers and Styles

15:30 Quantifying Costere’s Polarization of Pitch-Class Collections via Jensen–Shannon Divergence

Speaker: Fernando Gualda

16:10 → 16:50 Communication Performance

16:10 Rotation: An Algorithmic Musical Work Based on Temporal Translations, Pattern Variations, and Musical Tilings

Speaker: Paul Lascabettes

16:50 → 17:00 Closing

Speakers: Mariana Montiel, Charles Doran