Composition

Composition is an event for talks, performances, and demos that intertwine art modalities, mathematics, and code. Composition site - https://composition.codes Composition instagram - @composition.codes Talks, Demos & Performances: Dr. Michael Yatauro – Drumming and Data: A View Through the Lenses of Programming and Statistics Many professional drummers have uniquely identifiable styles or “footprints”. Much of this comes from how the drummer plays along with the timing of notes, their so-called “groove”. Thanks to mathematics and modern technology, we can quantify how a drummer plays relative to “perfect” metronome time. We present how the data is generated for both metronome time and for the timing of notes played by drummers. We then compare these times and look for statistically relevant trends. For example, how tempo affects the outcome or comparing how a drummer plays a straight beat with how they play a fill. https://sites.psu.edu/mry3/ Cherri Diesel – Live Code Music with Strudel.cc & Visuals with Hydra.ojack.xyz dance music experiments with math and patterns. https://www.instagram.com/cherri_diesel/ Brian Bishop – Breath Choir Breath Choir is a live, audience-led performance where a room breathes together and that collective breath becomes both instrument and visualization. Breath Choir is a part of the series Breath Activated Machines (BAM) started with Liyah Coleman at ITP in Fall 2025. As a continuation of BAM, Breath Choir emerged from his work in two ITP courses: Biophilic Experiences, where it started as an exercise in umwelt (how to embody the experience of a rose), and Music Design and Discovery, where I built the engine that turns breath into sound. From there the question grew: what happens when a group can hear and see themselves breathing as one? @brianb.ing, brianjbishop.com Elizabeth Kezia Widjaja – NO FOTO© - Altering Perception through Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency Understanding the relationship between human critical…