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Harmony’s Hidden Geometry Revealed

THE GEOMETRY OF MUSICAL CHORDS
Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University
Musical chords have a non-Euclidean geometry that has been exploited by Western composers in many different styles. A musical chord can be represented as a point in a geometrical space called an orbifold. Line segments represent mappings from the notes of one chord to those of another. Composers [...]

More Detail on Sony’s DRM

From Boing Boing: Can DRM be future-proof?:
Princeton’s Ed Felten and Alex Halderman continue to pre-publish sections from a major paper on the lessons to be learned from the Sony DRM debacle, in which it was discovered that the music label had deliberately infected its customers’ computers with malicious software that spied on them, destabilized their [...]