Free, in-person tickets open: Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly

Book via: gres.hm/music-consonan…

LSO St Luke's, Prof Prof Milton Mermikides explores what makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful or ugly?

University of Surrey Surrey Music_Media

The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes youtu.be/mMcpJF9ssnc?si…

Is there – could/should there be – *any* type of objective measure of musical quality or value?

If yes, what sort of criteria might it involve. If no – it is all subjective – then does that explain the extent of consensus around certain artists and pieces?

Interested in your

Scales, scales, modes and scales (and modes) Feb 22 6pm.

This is your brain on jazz. Colouring in a dominant 7 chord.

gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/scale…

Happy new note day! The 639-year long performance of John Cage’s Organ2 in Halberstadt has just changed one note. If you missed it, despair not, the next is on August 5 2026.

How long is a piece of string? aka The Art and Science of Tuning youtu.be/DkZ9F9RL0lU?si…

Can you help me out with a short (5min) survey on musical scales? It involves listening to short extracts and providing very brief responses. Everyone welcome and appreciated, but I am particularly interested in those who 'don't know' typical terminology. Thank you!

Some of my data music on the lovely New Scientist 🪐🕰️🧂

Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets | New Scientist newscientist.com/podcasts/escap…

Book in-person tickets: The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes

gres.hm/scales-modes

LSO St Luke's Prof Prof Milton Mermikides looks at the theory & artistry of scale construction, & how each scale can through ‘rotation’ form a colourfully expressive palette of modal colours

Surrey Music_Media

Tonight @ 6pm: The Art and Science of Tuning

Watch online via: gres.hm/art-tuning

Prof Prof Milton Mermikides reveals the mechanics that determine the 12 notes of the piano keyboard and the beautiful spectrum of pitch colours between them

Surrey Music_Media LSO St Luke's
#music #music theory

Gloria in Excel Sheets.

Merry Christmas All!

Visualising three commas of just intonation for my next Gresham lecture on the science and art of tuning. Jan 18. gres.hm/art-tuning

Free, in-person tickets open: The Art and Science of Tuning

Book or watch online via: gres.hm/art-tuning

Prof Prof Milton Mermikides explores how musicians have organised, sliced and manipulated the pitch continuum for expressive effect

Surrey Music_Media LSO St Luke's
#music #music theory

Just Intonation vs 12-Tone Equal Temperament. Look/listen how gluey the waves become, like they’re gliding into a slow dance. 💃

My Gresham Lecture on Musical Time, Rhythm & Groove now available. Hope you enjoy.

youtu.be/Gdco-Vi8t-8?si…

Looking forward to my Gresham lecture 6pm today. There may be some diagrams, and I will try not to cry this time.

The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm & Groove.

A free Gresham College lecture Nov 9 6pm (@lsostlukes and livestream). Register here:

gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/music…

Catch up: Why Music Moves Us

Watch the full lecture: gres.hm/music-moves

Gresham Prof of Music, Prof Milton Mermikides asks how is music able to move us so profoundly?

University of Surrey Surrey Music_Media Royal College of Music Guildhall School of Music & Drama Ableton Forever Surrey

#music #music theory #freelearning