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NOV. 7 - NOV. 10, 2024

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Robert Schneider

Fri., 11/3, 7:30 p.m.
October 8, 2023• byErin Smith
Robert Schneider

Photo Credit: Mike Colletta

Robert Schneider, featured in The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (Friday, 7:30 p.m.), is an indie-pop musician, composer of instrumental and experimental music, recording studio producer/engineer, and co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording Co., a collective of musicians and artists.  He is also an assistant professor of mathematics here at Michigan Tech. As a musician, he invented a “non-Pythagorean” musical scale based on logarithms, and used it to compose music. He also invented a mind-controlled synthesizer, and used it to compose music. In collaboration with experimental composer Michael G. Maxwell on the Visual and Performing Arts faculty, he sponsors the MTU Mathematics and Music Lab (MML).  The goals of the MML are to produce futuristic works of music and installation art, explore music theory using mathematics, and invent new audio hardware and software. His research interests lie primarily in number theory and combinatorics, in particular the theory of partitions, special functions in the orbit of modular forms (q-series mock theta functions, quantum modular forms), and analytic number theory (prime distribution, Riemann zeta function, arithmetic functions, arithmetic density).

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Rob Schneider will be joined by producer Daniel Efram for a Q&A following The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

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The 10th annual 41 North Film Festival is made possible in part by a grant from Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Major sponsorship provided by the Department of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Sciences and Arts, and the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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