Videos:

Introducing the Arca Musarithmica, a music writing device found in Athanasius Kircher's 17th century music theory treatise: Musurgia Universalis. Using plans from the original Arca, I rebuilt the device, used it to write a 4 part liturgical vocal harmony for Ave Maris Stella, and hired musicians to perform what it produced! What could go wrong?

Deep in the forests of Pennsylvania you’ll find a rare geological site containing one of the most awe-inspiring musical phenomenons, a field of boulders that when struck with hammers ring out like bells. I had to check it out. On the way I got caught up in a 115 year old mystery and became determined to solve it - leading to the discovery of a lost song that has not been heard in over a century.

I spent some time in Greece in order to study ancient Greek music theory. From the just intonation tuning systems of Pythagoras, to the microtonal scales of Archytas like the soft diatonic and the enharmonic scale, we go deep into the history, ethnomusicology, and tuning theory of the ancient Greeks and see how we can apply some time tested ideas to modern music today.

An exploration into a music theory concept I’ve been calling double modes. This is a way to use microtones in 31 tone equal temperament in a way that are a natural extension of our familiar diatonic scales.