Dmitri Tymoczko

I am interested in music-making from the perspective of composer, improviser, theorist, and programmer.  Most of my work focuses on questions of grammar and structure—how music is conceptualized as at the symbolic level of notes, scales, motives, and rhythms.  I am particularly interested in connections between mathematics and music, and in geometrical models of various sorts; what fascinates me is that musical knowledge can be both implicit, and yet also mathematically rich.  Though my work is often technical and detailed, I am also interested in larger aesthetic questions in the area.

Dmitri Tymoczko is a composer, improviser, theorist, and programmer.  He published the first music theory article ever published in Science magazine.  He has published two books with Oxford University Press, "A Geometry of Music" (2011) and "Tonality: an owner's manual" (2023).  His music appears on numerous CDs and has been performed around the world.