Carl Aspiring: composer, fiddler, mathematician, writer email: first initial dot surname at dpmms dot cam dot ac dot uk post: DPMMS, Centre for Mathematical Sciences University of Cambridge Wilberforce Road Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England

Interests: Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry, Geometric Methods in Generative Music Composition.

Biographics: CV, photo.

Automated Pattern Detection—An Algorithm for Constructing Optimally Synchronizing Multi-Regular Language Filters, with JP Crutchfield, Theoretical Computer Science 359 (2006), 306-328.

Stratified Morse Theory, unpublished expository essay written for Part III of the Cambridge Tripos, 2005.

Characteristic, Signature, and Singularity, 2006 Fulbright Seminar, Berlin.

Music Through Computation, invited keynote speech at IMS2003, Imperial College London.

Compositions: The Lyre of Ur, Ripples Through Pitch Space, Portrait of Poincaré, (ii-V-I)⁷, Six Integers.

Fiddling: Solo jigs, reels, and more reels (live). Duo reels and jigs with piper Tim Benson (studio).

Miscellanea: Blow-up, Escaping the Flood of Time, Egon’s Twinkie, A Much Deserved Pie in the Face.

Inspiration: Burt Totaro, Conlon Nancarrow.