Moreno Andreatta codes music with maths
A science and music festival will take place from the 6-12 May 2019 in the Alsatian village of Bischwiller, France, within the framework of Alsasciences (science in Alsace). Moreno Andreatta, who is a Fellow of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), will orchestrate a conference-concert Math'n Pop : Les maths au service de la chanson (maths at the service of songs) on Saturday 11 May at 18.30.
Moreno Andreatta, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), is also a composer and pianist. The aim of the conference is to reveal certain mathematical concepts through music and against a backcloth of cartoons. This joint collaborative endeavour with Laurent Mandeix, a stage director who specialises in scientific theatre, as well as being composer, actor and author, is part of the CNRS 80th anniversary year celebrations Le tour du CNRS en 80 jours (around the CNRS in 80 days).
A video of the conference-concert “Coding Music with Maths” (in French), a prelude to Math’n Pop, was filmed at the opening of the exhibition Coder le monde at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, held from the 15 June – 27 August 2018.
Structural Music Information Research (SMIR), Moreno Andreatta’s USIAS project, is based on the interplay between algebra, topology and category theory, three mathematical disciplines, in computational musicology.
