Getting Ready for Conference

This night I will have to get up before 3am... for a flight to the US. I will attend over the coming weekend the Mathematics and Computing in Music (MCM) Conference 2009. Have a poster there, about the Riemann Tonnetz. My contribution was to determine a numeric parameter of this model, but I made an assumption that was critisized by the reviewers of my submission: I put out the theorem that Major and Minor third are equivalent in their "tonality consonance". I put forward some argumentation for this, but there remained some doubt... I hope to be able to convince the experts that this is a valid approach that I proposed. The consequence would be a metric for determining the degree of "consonance" in a music piece, allowing to judge the melody or the harmony for consonance in quantitative terms. This may be useful for analysing / searching / retrieving online digital music.

Paper submitted to CIRCLE Conference

This weekend the major activity was in preparing a paper for the CIRCLE conference. I had submitted an abstract earlier, which had been accepted ("Marketing in Web 2.0"), and the due date for the camera-ready paper was this Saturday - so I thought. When I checked again the website, I realised that the due date had been already Wednesday, 5.3. - so I was already late. Well, I finished the paper yesterday night and sent it off, despite some distractions from the tech front which I came across while preparing the final paper version and checking some references.