SUGGESTED LITERATURE

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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 [...]

Would it be possible to imagine a self-generative harmonic structure, representing haptic, rather then optic harmonic space? Would it then be feasible for a composer to generate a string of self-referential sonorities, each forming a harmonically distinct spatial dimension with almost tactile, palpable surface? In this article I associate the notion of autopoiesis with a [...]