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I wish I could answer your question with complete certainty, but my teacher hasn't quite explained the history behind sets and vectors. I believe you're right in mentioning Hindemith, he is definitely an inspiration in the way I work, but it's also close to Shostakovich's later music (especially his...

First off, thanks cuttime for the great synth link! Extremely helpful! And Shooshie I learned a ton in your post! On the subject of only being able to stay in one key. What really actually attracts me to the older system is that our ears aren't used to it any more, and that seems to change how most ...

I've recently come across La Monte Young's "Well-Tuned Piano", played on a special Bosendorfer piano tuned to his specifications and the effect really intrigues me. He tuned the piano using "just intonation", also called perfect or pythagorean tuning which uses small whole number...

My professor also embraces these mathematical methods for musical creation, but he has his own spin on it even if he doesn't really say it straight out. He uses the math as a jumping off point, and is completely amenable to the similar in our own work (provided we can explain our reasoning). From wh...