Music, Science, Statistics

Monthly Archives: July, 2010

Portamental is Born

We are now Portamental—and an official dot-com!  What is Portamental? A portamento is fluidity of pitch in music.  It’s a slide from one pitch to another, blurring the boundaries between notes.  Portamental is mental fluidity, playing with concepts, eschewing quantization for analogue, or even vice-versa.  Don’t worry, though, the SmarterGuides are still here. Why the [...]

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Yuri Broze

Yuri Broze is a music guru and sciencehead currently pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and an MS in Statistics at Ohio State University. His current academic haunt is the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, spearheaded by David Huron. Yuri is an award-winning choral arranger, has written on a cappella arranging, teaches piano lessons, tinkers with websites, and smells hardbound books.