I am very thankful to Duquesne University string players for their reading and recording of my string quartet, Intimate Stream[s]. Written in 2008 and recently revised, the piece reflects my ongoing exploration of musical syntax as an interplay of music cognition and philosophy, notably of the creation and perception of musical harmony-timbre(s) and the causality [...]

There have been many ways of measuring and classifying consonant and dissonant intervals throughout music history. From Pythagoras to the nineteenth century, music theorists have claimed perfect-ratio intervals accountable for the foundations of Western harmonic language. With the birth of psychoacoustics and cognitive neuroscience, some new and intriguing perspectives have been enthralling physicists, music theorists, [...]

I embarked on my harmonic pilgrimage with my first composition teacher, more than a decade ago in Zagreb, Croatia. Prof. Marko Ruždjak[1] so patiently engaged with me in what became countless hours of discussions on musical harmony while I had been writting out multiple voices in the species of the rigorous counterpoint of Giovanni Pierluigi [...]