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Tony Durham
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LOCATION: Brighton, England
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ABOUT ME:

What are you doing here?

I play jazz piano.

I'm sorry?

It's quite fun really, especially if, like me, you don't do it professionally. And it involves more theory than you would think.

I hated music theory at school.

Join the club. I'm looking for new ways into the subject. Visual and geometric ways, in particular.

What does geometry sound like?

A better question might be, what does harmony look like? If this stuff interests you, take a look at the Jazz Harmony Cube.

That's not Mathematica. It's Sketchfab.

That particular example doesn't require Mathematica's awesome symbolic processing capabilities. Actually the pop-up paper version of the cube is my favourite. I'm using Mathematica for things which actually require a bit of computing oomph. Music gets you very quickly into multidimensional geometry.

Tell me something surprising about yourself.

In the 1980s I was writing a lot about computing and AI, and happened to interview Stephen Wolfram.