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| "On Milton Babbitt: Progressive Artistic Research, Decorous Pranks, and Pig-Stand Jazz" Contemporary Music Review v. 40/2-3, 2021 | Full Text | ||
| "A Short History of Babbaptations" Contemporary Music Review v. 40/2-3, 2021 | Abstract | ||
| "Babbitt's Canonical Form Revisited: Codes and Metaphors for Epistemology" Perspectives of New Music v. 58/2, 2020 |
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| "Portmantonality and Babbitt's Poetics of Double Entendre" Music Theory Online (the online journal of the Society for Music Theory) v. 26.2, 2020 | Abstract | Full Text | |
| "Babbitt's Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside" SMT-V (Society for Music Theory: Videocast Journal) v. 5.1-3, 2019 | Abstract |
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| "Cybernetic Phenomenology of Music, Embodied Speculative Realism, and Aesthetics Driven Techné for Spontaneous Audio-visual Expression" Perspectives of New Music v. 54/1, 2016 | Abstract |
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| "Schoenberg's Chordal Experimentalism Revealed Through Representational Hierarchy Association (RHA), Contour Motives, and Binary State Switching" Music Theory Spectrum v. 37/2, 2015 | Abstract | Full Text | |
| "The Time and Space of Boretz's string quartet Qixingshan" Open Space, v. 19, 2016 | |||
| "Trajectory, Material, Process, and Flow in Robert Morris's String Quartet Arc" Perspectives of New Music v. 52/2, 2014 |
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| "Improvising Synesthesia: Comprovisation of Generative Graphics and Music" Leonardo Electronic Almanac v. 19/3, 2013, special issue on Live Visuals | Abstract |
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| "Seven Metaphors for (Music) Listening: DRAMaTIC" Journal of Sonic Studies v. 2/1, 2012, and republished in The Open Space Magazine 15, 2013 | Abstract |
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Middlebury College blogs about this (four from 2015) Chamorro, Jason, Response #2 Benoit Other blogs/articles about this: Nicole Cheng (sound artist), Kate Fagan, in Austral. J. of Ecopoetry |
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| "An Imagined Drama of Competitive Opposition in Carter's Scrivo in Vento (with Notes on Narrative, Symmetry, Quantitative Flux, and Heraclitus)," Music Analysis v. 28, 2-3, 2009 (Winner: 25th Anniversary Competition) | Abstract | Full Text | |
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| "Pragmatist Ironist Analysis and Embodied Interactivity: Experimental Approaches to Sensor-Based Interactive Music Systems inspired by Music Analysis") in Music, Analysis, and the Body: Experiments, Explorations and Embodiments, series: Analysis in Context, Nicholas Reyland and Rebecca Thumpston, (Eds.), Peeters/Leuven Studies in Musicology, 2018, pp.295-330. | Full Text | ||
| "Renewing the Riverbed: Critical Aesthetic and Epistemological Purposes for Analysis, Fueled by Performative Theory" (published in French translation: "Pour un renouvellement à la source : visées critique-esthétique et épistémologique de l'analyse, fondées sur la théorie performative") in Musiques électroacoustiques / Analyses <-> Ecoutes, Nicolas Marty, ed. (Eds.), Delatour Press, 2015, pp.33-57. | Full Text | ||
| "Agency, Determinism, Focal Time Frames, and Processive Minimalist Music," chapter 6 in Music and Narrative After 1900, Michael Klein and Nicholas Reyland (Eds.), Indiana University Press, 2013, pp.125-43. | Full Text | ||
| "Continuous Movement, Fluid Music, and Expressive Immersive Interactive Technology: The Sound and Touch of Ether's Flux" (co-authored with Sofia Paraskeva), chapter 5 in Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body, Marilyn Wyers and Osvaldo Glieca (Eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp.35-51 | Full Text | ||
Published Proceedings (peer-reviewed) |
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| "Interactive Computer Simulation for Kinesthetic Learning to Perceive Unconventional Emergent Form-bearing Qualities in Music by Crawford Seeger, Carter, Ligeti, and Others" Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2012 | Abstract |
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| "The Fluxations Stochastic Interactive Algorithmic Music Engine (SIAME) and iPhone App," Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012 | Abstract | Full Text | |
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| "Upon the Occasion of the Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) Centenary: An Interview with Benjamin Boretz", Tempo, v. 278, October 2016 | Abstract | Full Text | |
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Crash and getting me started: How Robert Ashley changed my mind, Open Space magazine, 17-18, 2015,
and Tempo, v. 279, December 2016 |
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| Interview with the JACK Quartet (co-author) Perspectives of New Music 52/2, 2014 | Full Text | ||
| "Curious Music In The Great Outdoors: Robert Morris's Coming Down To Earth In Webster Park" Perspectives of New Music 52/2, 2014 | Full Text via JSTOR | ||
| Interview of Joshua B. Mailman, by Rachel Vandagriff, Perspectives of New Music 50/1, 2012 | Full Text | ||
| Review Article on Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives by Adam Ockelford. Psychology of Music 35 (2) 2007 (citations of this on the web: 1, 2) | Abstract | Full Text | |
| Introduction to a forum of reviews of Nicholas Cook's Analysing Musical Multimedia in Integral v 16/17, 2002/2003 | Text | ||
| "The Aims of Music Theory and Neurath's Boat: A Reply to Jonathan Walker and Matthew Brown" Music Theory Online 2.4, 1996 (citations of this on the web: 1 2 3 4) | Abstract | Full Text | |
| For additional papers currently under review, see the curriculum vitae in the Credentials section of this website. | |||
Conference and Colloquium Presentations |
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| "The musical cybernetics of computer-aided composition: a regime for anticipatory embodiment and adventurous constructive epistemology", symposium on Computer Assisted Composition: Perspectives of Man-machine Interaction, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy, December, 2022 | Video | ||
| "The notational technology of Stockhausen's Refrain mediating between serialism and aleatoricism", Society for Music Theory, virtual, November, 2021 | |||
| "Analysis of Texture in Spectralism: Saariaho's Lichtbogen and Papillons", Society for Music Theory, Analysis of Post-1945 Music Interest Group, Columbus, OH, November, 2019 | |||
| "Adventures in Gagaku", preconcert lecture for Reigakusha Ensemble performance, Japan Society, NYC, September 21, 2019. | |||
| "Process philosophy overcoming itself: Modeling Grisey's Vortex Temporum (1994-96)", Spectralisms 2019, International Conference - 2nd edition, IRCAM, Paris, June 2019, and Society for Music Theory, Columbus, OH, November, 2019 | Video | ||
| "The legacy of Ligeti's unsung innovation: Textural Incline of Pitch (TIP)", Dislocations: Reassessing Ligeti's Many Worlds in the 21st Century, Univ. of Chicago, March 2018 | |||
| "The LerDial: a Dynamic Practical-Tactile-Visual-Pedagogical Model of Lerdahl's Tonal Chord Distance Measure", Music Theory and Cognition, a conference in honor of Fred Lerdahl, Heyman Center, Columbia University, March 2018 | |||
| "Babbitt's Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside", Society for Music Theory (SMT), Vancouver, November 2016 | |||
| "Trans-cultural-stylistic solutions of Toshi Ichiyanagi's Transfiguration of the Moon (1988), for sho & violin", Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM), The New School, NYC, June 2016, Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, University of Pennsylvania, April 2016, Society for Music Theory, Global New Music Interest Group, November 2012 | Abstract | ||
| "Time's Duality and the Androgyny of Musical Flow" in session on Music and temporal experience in the short twentieth century 50th Royal Musical Association annual conference, University of Leeds, UK, September 2014 and Society of Music Analysis Conference (KeeleMAC), Keele University, UK, July 2015 | Abstract |
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| "Experimental Pragmatist Approaches to Interactive Music Systems Inspired by Music Analysis" in panel session on Music Analysis and the Body EuroMAC (European Music Analysis Conference), Leuven, Belgium, September 2014 | Audio-visual lecture | ||
| "Renewing the Riverbed: Critical Aesthetic and Epistemological Purposes for Analysis, Fueled by Performative Theory" in two-day session on Electroacoustic Music Analysis and Listening EuroMAC (European Music Analysis Conference), Leuven, Belgium, September 2014 | |||
| "Assertive and Furtive Forms and Processes in Post-war Art Music Off-center: Berio, Carter, and Others" Society for Music Theory (SMT), Post-WWII Music Analysis Interest Group, Charlotte, NC, November 2013 and at the Seventh International Conference on Music Theory, Tallinn-Pärnu, Estonia, January 2014 | Abstract |
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| "A cumulative narrative trajectory of the Rite of Spring's introduction, arising from flux of binary-states" Eighth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, September 2013 | Abstract | ||
| "Diving into Flux: Journeying among Music Theories and Interactive Multimedia Practices" Ground-breaking Research/Innovative Technology (GRIT) talks, presented by the UCSB Research Mentorship Program and UCSB Summer Cultural and Enrichment Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 17, 2013 | Abstract | NEWS about this talk | |
| "Improvising Synesthesia: Comprovisation of Generative Graphics and Music" NoiseFloor festival-conference, Staffordshire University, Stafford, UK, May 3, 2013 and University of California, Santa Barbara, Music Department, talk-demo, May 31, 2013 | |||
| "Electric Evolutionary Fairytales: Binary State GIS, Mendelian Genetic Metaphor, and Boolean Symbolism for Schoenberg, Schumann, and Others" Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Temple University, March 15-16, 2013 | Abstract | ||
| "Theorizing, Developing, and Performing Fluxations and FluxNoisations: Interactive Music Emerging from Analyzing Emergence in Composed Acoustic Music" (included a demo-performance of Fluxations and FluxNoisations.) University of California, San Diego (UCSD), InFocus composition seminar (by invitation), January 22, 2013 | |||
| "The Fluxations Stochastic Interactive Algorithmic Music Engine (SIAME) and iPhone App," 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012 | Abstract | Full Text | |
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"Comprovisation, Emergence, and the Fluxations Human Body Interface" (included a demo-performance of Fluxations.) Skin-Surface-Circuit: Embodying the Improvisatory, ICASP-McGill Center for the Critical Study of Improvisation Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Montreal, June 14-16, 2012 |
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| "Cybernetic Phenomenology and Music Ontology" conference on Music: Cognition, Technology, Society, Cornell University, May 11-13, 2012 |
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Grillo's review of this in Sequenza 21 |
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| "Conventional and Unconventional Approaches to Babbitt's Unconventional Projections of Form" The Legacy of Milton Babbitt: Post-WW II Serialism in the Americas, Colloquium at Wright State University, March 2012 | |||
| "Interactive Computer Simulation for Kinesthetic Learning to Perceive Unconventional Emergent Form-bearing Qualities in Music by Crawford Seeger, Carter, Ligeti, and Others" poster presentations, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, NY, August, 2011 and International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece, July, 2012 | Abstract | poster | |
| "Duality of metaphor for time and music: applications to computational-phenomenological analysis of musical form and expression," plenary session roundtable on Metaphor, Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 / Society for Music Analysis Conference, Lancaster, U.K., July 2011 and Music and Philosophy Conference: Time Theories and Music, Corfu, Greece, April 2012 |
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| "Flux of Upward: A Computational Model of a Textural Device in Ligeti's Late Music," Northeast Music Cognition Group, New York University, April 2011 | |||
| "Emergent Flux Projecting Form in Ruth Crawford Seeger's Quartet (1931)," Society for Music Theory (SMT) Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2010 and Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 / Society for Music Analysis Conference, Lancaster, U.K., July 2011 | Abstract |
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| "Dynamic Form (Flux of vertical cellularity in Isaac's Quis Dabit and flux of pitch freshness)" Northeast Music Cognition Group, Yale University, May 2010 | |||
| "Hybrid analysis interprets multi-transformational form in Brahms's Wir Wandelten," Music Theory Society of New York State, New York City, April 2010 | Abstract | Text, diagrams, and audio | |
| "Dripping, Leaking, Framing, Flowing, and Dynamic Form: Narrative Allusions to Heraclites and Hitchcock" Sixth International Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele University, U.K., July 2009 | Abstract |
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| "Introduction to Temporal Dynamic Form Theory and Analysis" Colloquium (by invitation), Harvard University, Department of Music, April 2009 | |||
| "An Imagined Drama of Competitive Opposition in Carter's Scrivo in Vento" Society for Music Analysis, Cardiff, U.K., 2008 (Winner: 25th Anniversary Competition) and presented at the Society for Music Theory (SMT), Montreal, November 2009 | Abstract |
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| "A Binary-state GIS Models a Contour Motive that Helps Chords Talk Long-distance in Schoenberg's Op.11, No.2" Music Theory Society of New York State, Rochester, 2004 and Society for Music Theory (SMT), Seattle, 2004 | Abstract | Handout | |
| "Long-term Memory and Perception of Octave-Equivalence with Atonal Melodies" Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, 2000 | Abstract | Full Text | |
| "Conceiving and Communicating Multiplicity in Post-Tonal Music Analyses" co-authored with Richard Randall, Society for Music Theory, Toronto, 2000 | Abstract | Handout | |
| Technology Presentations | |||
| "Fluxations Human Body Movement Interface for Comprovisational Computer Music" March 30-31 (NJ), April 19 (London), May 12-14 (Ithaca), and June 14-16 (Montreal), 2012, January 22 (San Diego), May 31, 2013 (Santa Barbara) | View interactivity for more info. | ||
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| "Dose-ranging study of Indole-3-Carbinol for breast cancer prevention" Journal of Cellular Biochemistry v 67/S28-29: 111-16 (authors: George Y.C. Wong, Leon Bradlow, Daniel Sepkovic, Stephanie Mehl, Joshua Mailman*, Michael P. Osborne) (cited more than 100 times) | Abstract | Full Text | |
| Joshua B. Mailman on Academia.edu | |||