Guerino Mazzola

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Name = Guerino Mazzola


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Origin = Dübendorf (Canton of Zürich), Switzerland
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Instrument = piano
Genre = jazz
Occupation = mathematician, musicologist, and jazz pianist.
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Guerino Mazzola (born 1947) is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, and jazz pianist.

He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. 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 has recorded several Free Jazz CDs with musicians like Mat Maneri, Heinz Geisser, Sirone, Jeff Kaiser, Scott Fields, Matt Turner and Rob Brown.

Mazzola is well-known for his application of sophisticated mathematical concepts such as topos theory to music theory, described in his book "The Topos of Music". The result has been somewhat controversial, drawing praise from some mathematicians and music theorists, and dissent from others.

Currently he is Professor at the School of Music at the University of Minnesota. [ [http://collaborativearts.umn.edu/faculty/ Faculty : Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts : U of M ] ]

Bibliography

*"The Topos of Music, Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance". Birkhäuser (2002) ISBN 3-7643-5731-2.
*"Comprehensive Mathematics for Computer Scientists I & II" [http://math.ifi.unizh.ch/bmwcs/ here] and Errata [http://math.ifi.unizh.ch/ 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.

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, Silkheart Records SHCD 153 CD
*Mazzola/Geisser/Rissi Tierra Cadence Jazz Records 1130 CD
*Mazzola/Geisser/Rissi Agua Cadence Jazz Records, 1150 CD
*Mazzola/Geisser Someday Silkheart 154 CD
*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

References

External links

*http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/mazzola/mazzola.html
*http://www.encyclospace.org/