Pierre Attractions

Boulez speaks to The Times in a podcast about the Proms (the interviewer suggests that when Boulez was the music director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra he made the repetoire 'funkier', erm, what?)

History of Symmetry Podcasts

Graph of E₈ Gosset polytope, 4_2,1

Yes, a podcast series by Ian Stewart of Warwick University, to accompany his recent book, Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry.

Tymoczko Literature

Currently the Arthur Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor (don`t ask) and also an Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University, Dimitri Tymoczko has been getting some press recently for his forays into the world of harmony and geometry (not far removed from his colleague Paul Lansky`s interest in affine music, perhaps)

Discussed in the Telegraph for instance (referencing work published in Science). I post this here partly because of this recent geometry stuff but also because of the wealth of interesting written work on Tymoczko`s site. Enjoy (sort of). [the written work is listed in 'publications' on his Princeton page, cant link directly to it unfortunately]

There is also a Princeton podcast on this topic.


One of Tymoczko`s geometric images from this page.