music related talks, notes, unpublished mss.
(polansky)
(8/16/09)

• "Optimal Well-Temperaments", talk given at Dartmouth Innovators Series, August, 2009. powerpoint presentation
  
• "Three Excellent Ideas", talk given at Drums Along the Pacific Festival, Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle, March 27, 2009
  
• Optimal Well Temperament Supplementary Materials.
• project with Kimo Johnson, Dan Rockmore, Douglas Repetto, Wei Pan
  
• Examples for a talk on Tenney's "dissonant counterpoint" idea, NYC, 2008 (first given in Phoenix, AZ, 2007)
  
• Two talks given at the Santa Fe Institute, June, 2006 (examples, notes)
  
• Harmony Primer (updated 5/16/06). Pedagogical introduction to basic tuning theory.
  
• Envisioning Ruth Crawford Seeger's Piano Study in Mixed Accents a talk given originally at the Society for Music Theory as a "response" to a presentation by Joseph Strauss on atonal analysis of RCS' work. I later expanded this 10-minute visual presentation into a longer talk, but this is still unpublished. This link contains further details. This talk became the basis for the piece The Casten Variation.
  
• Indonesian commissioning. Unpublished paper, co-authored with Jody Diamond, presented at a UC Berkeley conference on cross-cultural composition. This paper documented the commissioning project in Indonesia which resulted in the three Lyrichord cds called New Music Indonesia. Some reviews of the three cds at the Lyrichord site.
  
• "Beyond Imprimatur," outline for a talk on experimental  independent publishing given by Jody Diamond and me at the Music Library Association meeting in NYC, in 1992, and the handout for that talk. An update of this talk was given, focussing on frog peak, at the MLA conference in Las Vegas in 2002. I first gave this talk, or a version of it, at the California Library Association conference in the mid- late- 1980s.
  
• miscellaneous small writings on johanna magdalena beyer: program notes, brief bios, etc. for more information see the Musical Quarterly article, or the frog peak score editions.
• notes for pedagogical talk on music and shoah i've given several times (dartmouth, melbourne jewish museum, dartmouth roth center for jewish life, etc.), first solicited by my dartmouth colleagues leo spitzer and marianne hirsch. Musical and visual examples are not included, nor are hebrew fonts.
• short set of answers to questions by paul doornbusch "about mapping" (algorithmic composing)
• morphological metrics/mutation functions "FAQ"  (references, articles, ideas, pieces)
• article on intellectual property, digital sound, and the fp collaborations project (among other things) in Open Space web-journal: "Singing Together, Hacking Together..." (this link seems to be broken, on the Open Space end)