Jay Schweig
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I co-teach an honors add-on course on the interactions between music and mathematics. This has led to some
projects at the intersection of combinatorics and music theory. In particular,
I am interested in pc-sets having particular properties; For example, the sets
described here do not fit in any given key, but are
minimal with respect to that property. Here is a short piece composed
using these sets:
Occasionally I write other things for classical guitar. Here's one of my favorites, titled Grand Magic:
In a masterpiece of procrastination, I wrote a suite of classical guitar pieces based on sea creatures. My favorite two were Le Requin (The Shark):
and La Baleine (The Whale):
If you want to play these yourself, here's the sheet music / tablature for them:
Le Requin tab, La Baleine tab.
I also arranged and transcribed Philip Glass's theme from the movie Candyman for guitar:
And here's the tab for that.
Click here to
see an art project made by my honors Calculus II class at KU.
Here are three scratch-board prints / charcoals: one
two three.
I did the music for this video and
this one
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Click here for a cartoon I drew, and here
for one made as a linoleum block print.
Click here for a recreation of the Muybridge horse animation using
scratch-board printing.
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