Guerino Mazzola

Guerino Bruno Mazzola
At University of Zurich, 2002
Background information
Birth name	Guerino Mazzola
Born	(1947-02-02) 2 February 1947 (age 78)
Origin	Dübendorf (Canton of Zürich), Switzerland
Genres	Free jazz
Occupation(s)	Mathematician, music theorist, musician
Instrument	Piano
Website	www.encyclospace.org

Guerino Bruno Mazzola (born 1947) is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, jazz pianist, and writer.

Education and career

Mazzola obtained his PhD in mathematics at University of Zürich in 1971 under the supervision of Herbert Groß and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. ^[1] In 1980, he habilitated in algebraic geometry and representation theory. In 2000, he was awarded the medal of the Mexican Mathematical Society. In 2003, he habilitated in computational science at the University of Zürich.

Mazzola was an associate professor at Laval University in 1996 and at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2005. ^[2] Since 2007, he is professor at the School of Music at the University of Minnesota. ^[3] From 2007 to 2021 he was the president of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music. ^[4]

Mazzola is well known for his music theory book The Topos of Music. ^[5] The result has drawn dissent from Dmitri Tymoczko, who said of Mazzola: "If you can't learn algebraic geometry, he sometimes seems to be saying, then you have no business trying to understand Mozart." ^[6]

Records

Mazzola has recorded several free jazz CDs with musicians like Mat Maneri, Heinz Geisser, Sirone, Jeff Kaiser, Scott Fields, Matt Turner and Rob Brown. His 2010 album Dancing the Body of Time was recorded in concert at the Pit Inn in Tokyo. ^[7]

Playing style

A reviewer of Dancing the Body of Time mentioned similarities between Mazzola's playing style and that of Cecil Taylor. ^[7] This was also mentioned by the AllMusic reviewer of Mazzola's earlier Toni's Delight: Live in Seoul, who also stated that Mazzola "infuses his incredible technique with a blues aesthetic and a sometimes-romantic stamp, overwhelming everything in his path". ^[8]

Bibliography

• Gruppen und Kategorien in der Musik. Hermann (1985) ISBN   3-88538-210-5.
• Rasterbild - Bildraster, CAD-gestützte Analyse von Raffaels "Schule von Athen". Springer (1987) ISBN   9783540172673.
• Geometrie der Töne. Birkhäuser (1990) ISBN   3-7643-2353-1.
• Ansichten eines Hirns. Birkhäuser (1990) ISBN   3-7643-2484-8.
• The Topos of Music, Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance. Birkhäuser (2002) ISBN   3-7643-5731-2.
• Perspectives in Mathematical Music Theory.. EpOs (2004). ISBN   978-3-923486-57-1.
• Comprehensive Mathematics for Computer Scientists I & II here and Errata here
• Elemente der Musikinformatik. Birkhäuser (2006) ISBN   3-7643-7745-3.
• La vérité du beau dans la musique. Delatour/IRCAM (2007) ISBN   2-7521-0029-9.
• Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz—Towards a Theory of Collaboration. Springer (2009) ISBN   978-3-540-92194-3.
• Musical Performance. Springer (2011) ISBN   978-3-642-11837-1.
• Musical Creativity—Strategies and Tools in Composition and Improvisation. Springer (2011) ISBN   978-3-642-24516-9.
• Computational Musicology in Hindustani Music. Springer (2014) ISBN   978-3319114712.
• Computational Counterpoint Worlds. Springer (2015) ISBN   978-3-319-11235-0.
• Cool Math for Hot Music. Springer (2016) ISBN   978-3-319-42935-9.
• All About Music. Springer (2016) ISBN   978-3-319-47334-5.
• The Topos of Music, 2nd ed. Vol. I: Theory. Springer (2017) ISBN   978-3-319-64364-9.
• The Topos of Music, 2nd ed. Vol. II: Performance. Springer (2017) ISBN   978-3-319-64444-8.
• The Topos of Music, 2nd ed. Vol. III: Gestures. Springer (2017) ISBN   978-3-319-64481-3.
• The Topos of Music, 2nd ed. Vol. IV: Roots. Springer (2017) ISBN   978-3-319-64495-0.
• Basic Music Technology. Springer (2018) ISBN   978-3-030-00982-3.
• The Future of Music. Springer (2020) ISBN   978-3-030-39708-1.
• Making Musical Time. Springer (2021) ISBN   978-3-030-85628-1.
• Functorial Semiotics for Creativity in Music and Mathematics. Springer (2022) ISBN   978-3-030-85192-7.

Discography

• Mazzola/Piano Solo Kelvin Null OMP Records 1001 LP
• Mazzola/Piano Solo Akroasis Wergo SM 1024 LP
• Mazzola/Moor/Sollberger Aus dem Hinterhalt OMP Records 1002 LP
• Q4 Orchestra Lyons' Brood Creative Works CW 1018 CD
• Guerino Mazzola Synthesis SToA music ST-71.1001 CD
• Jan Beran Immaculate Concept SToA music ST-71.1002 CD
• Q4 Orchestra Yavapai Creative Works CW 1028 CD
• Rissi/Mazzola/Geisser Fuego Creative Works CW 1029 CD
• Brown/Mazzola/Geisser Orbit Music & Arts CD-1015 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser Toni's Delight Cadence Jazz Records 1090 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser/Fields/Turner Maze Quixotic Records 5002 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser /Fields/Maneri Heliopolis Cadence Jazz Records 1122 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser Folia Silkheart Records SHCD 153 CD ^[9]
• Mazzola/Geisser/Rissi Tierra Cadence Jazz Records 1130 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser/Rissi Agua Cadence Jazz Records, 1150 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser Someday Silkheart Records 154 CD ^[9]
• Mazzola/Geisser/Fields/Maneri Chronotomy BlackSaint 120173-2 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser/Kato/Saga Live at Airegin Ayler Records aylDL-056 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser/Rissi Herakleitos Ayler Records aylDL-069 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser/Rissi Aire Cadence Jazz Records 1130 CD
• Mazzola/Geisser/Kaiser/Sirone Liquid Bridges CD in Springer book Flow, Gesture, and Spaces
• Mazzola/Geisser/Onuma Dancing the Body of Time Cadence Jazz Records 1239 CD
• Mazzola/Park Passionate Message Silkheart Records 159 CD ^[9]
• Mazzola/Geisser/Kita Ma pfMentum PFMCD116 ^[10]
• Mazzola/Lubet Deep State pfMentum PFMCD119 ^[10]
• Mazzola/Geisser Live at Le Classique pfMentum PFMCD126 ^[10]
• Mazzola/Leo/Lubet/Zielinski/Holdman Negative Space pfMentum PFMCD136 ^[10]
• Mazzola/Lubet Subtle pfMentum PFMCD141 ^[10]

References

1. "Guerino Mazzola - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
2. "Guerino Mazzola". Glass Bead. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
3. "Faculty". Music.umn.edu. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
4. "SMCM: Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music". Smcm-net.info. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
5. Turner, Charles (Summer 2008). "Guerino Mazzola: Elemente der Musikinformatik: Ausgearbeitet von Roland Bärtschi unter Mitarbeit von Stefan Göller". Computer Music Journal . 32 (2): 80–82. doi:10.1162/comj.2008.32.2.80.
6. Dmitri Tymoczko. "Mazzola's Counterpoint Theory" (PDF). Dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
7. Kremsky, Stuart (July–September 2012). "New Issues". Cadence . Vol. 38, no. 3. p. 225.
8. Loewy, Steve. "Toni's Delight: Live in Seoul – Heinz Geisser / Guerino Mazzola". AllMusic . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
9. "Catalog". Silkheart Records. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
10. "Mazzola". pfMentum. Retrieved 31 July 2022.

External links

• "Guerino Mazzola". Encyclospace.org. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
• "Faculty". Music.umn.edu. Retrieved May 17, 2018.