Carl Aspiring: composer, fiddler, mathematician, photographer email: first initial dot surname at soton dot ac dot uk atom: mctague.org/carl/ blog: mctague.org/carl/blog post: School of Mathematics University of Southampton Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England

Interests: Topology & Algebraic Geometry, Computation, Geometric Methods in Generative Music Composition.

Biographics: CV, photo.

Publications:

• The Cayley plane and String bordism, preprint.
• The Cayley plane and the Witten genus, preprint.
• Stiefel-Whitney Numbers for Singular Varieties, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 150 (2011), 273–289.
• Stratified Morse Theory, unpublished expository essay written for Part III of the Cambridge Tripos, 2005.
• The Organization of Intrinsic Computation: Complexity-Entropy Diagrams and the Diversity of Natural Information Processing, with DP Feldman and JP Crutchfield, Chaos 18(4), Dec 2008, 59-73.
• Automated Pattern Detection—An Algorithm for Constructing Optimally Synchronizing Multi-Regular Language Filters, with JP Crutchfield, Theoretical Computer Science 359 (2006), 306-328.

Talks:

• Characteristic, Signature, and Singularity, 2006 Fulbright Seminar, Berlin.
• Music Through Computation, invited keynote speech at IMS2003, Imperial College London.

Compositions: ’Round Midnight, 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: Signature Optimizer for Bookbinding, Topological Advertising, Blow-up, Escaping the Flood of Time, Egon’s Twinkie, A Much Deserved Pie in the Face.

Inspiration: Burt Totaro, Conlon Nancarrow.