British composer, artist and activist Brian Eno was a founding member of the rock group Roxy Music, has produced recordings by Talking Heads and U2 and created the genre of ambient music. Eno’s latest album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is a collaboration with David Byrne.
He recently talked with NPR, as part of their [...]

Matriosity is a free Mac application designed to help with serial matrix creation - in case you want to get your Schoenberg on, atonal style. 
It lets you enter in a prime row, either as numbers (1-11, and either 0 or 12 for C) or letters (C, C#, etc.). It then generates a serial matrix, displaying [...]

Science Daily has an interesting, if a bit wide-eyed, look at ASSA (Automatic Style Specific Accompaniment), computer software that applies concepts of music theory to intelligent automatic harmonization of melodies.
In a nutshell, the software harmonizes melodies in the style of U2, Radiohead or other existing source material.
The system is described in Ching-Hua Chuan’s paper on Automatic [...]

Mekentosj BV has announced the availability of Pianochords, an application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows you to “easily look up all those nasty keyboard and piano chords”.
Apparently, it’s designed for those times when you’re feeling too lazy to figure out what a C-Major chord is all yourself. 
Actually, some may find the app useful [...]

Mathtrek has an interesting post that explores the geometry of music.
According to Dmitri Tymoczko, a composer and music theorist at Princeton University…to grasp the true structure of music, we need to understand the geometry of hyperdimensional objects.
Tymoczko compares the structure of music to the shape of a rock face that a rock-climber [...]

The Improvisator is a new Windows plugin that knows the mathematical logic and rules of harmonic theory. It’s designed to directly offer technically correct harmonic options.
The Harmony Improvisator is described as a completely new composition tool that makes the world of harmonic functions transparent to its users.
It supports the musician in composing, improvising and creatively [...]