Music, Math and Mind
(AV4000/fall-2025)
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week 1 [9/4]
welcome to the class! -- parameters of sound
week 2 [9/11]
Acoustics/Math of pitch, scales, and harmony (part 1)
plus special guest:
Alan Kushan
week 3 [9/18]
Acoustics/Math of pitch, scales, and harmony (part 2)
Waves and harmonics
plus special guest:
Jeffrey Gavett
week 4 [9/25]
Math of sound and resonance
week 5 [10/2]
More tuning/harmonics, sound
week 6 [10/9]
Kepler and the Music of the Spheres
flamenco music and theory
plus special guests:
Pedro Cortes
and
Juan Pedro Jiménez
week 7 [10/16]
Neurophysiology of rhythm
plus special guest:
Gene Paul
week 8 [10/23]
More on neurophysiology
plus special guests:
Ofer Tchernichovski,
and
Vikram Gadagkar
week 9 [10/30]
Ear physiology: how airwaves become sound
plus special guests:
Elizabeth Olson (ear mechanisms)
and
Richard Einhorn (approaches to treat hearing loss)
week 10 [11/6]
Deep brain physiology of sound
plus special guest:
Miranda Cuckson
week 11 [11/14]
Neural mechanisms of emotion
Animal sound I
week 12 [11/20]
Animal Sound 2
plus special guest:
Mark Moffett
------- thanksgiving ------- [11/27]
week 13 [12/4]
student project presentations
week 14 [12/11]
CANCELLED -- not necessary. Great job, everyone!
(student project presentations)