A little further off topic but still related are Gareth Loy's two volumes of Musimathics which are a lot of fun to read and offer a musician with little mathematic training an exposure to key concepts and terminology. He gets right into the math, if you're up for it.

Dr. Daniel Tones has put together this amazing event (free for VCC students):

Nuff sed

http://capilanojazzstudies.blogspot.ca/2013/11/legendary-jazz-drummer-louis-hayes-will.html

http://drummerworld.com/drummers/Louis_Hayes.html

...a tangled hierarchy.

Obligatory youtube roll:

Beat Slicing - a guts-bared-for-the-world-to-see version of taking a break beat, slicing into equal portions of time, and reordering them

You can download the patch he used to make that video from him, and you can all run the software he used to make the patch called puredata for free (legitimately)

Ray Garraway: a great example of a musician who has incoroporated many new concepts and approaches derived from technological changes in music production and applied them to acoustic drum set.

Chris Daddy Dave: another great example of the above.

I will also post the .VUE file i used in class to the dropbox, although it's not very thorough. any collaborative efforts to improve it are encouraged.

apropos of our last masterclass, John Brennan puts on series called Destroy Vancouver at VIVO on main st, and this weekend he's bringing in drummer Chris Corsano to perform and hold a workshop:

the software i used to create the semantic maps in masterclass is called "Visual Understanding Environment" (I know, I know) and you can download and learn about it here:

http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm

it runs on java and so should work on any platform (Apple^tm OSX liger or whatever, Winblows, you name it) and is free to use. of course my chops with VUE are pretty bare bones, but with a bit of effort you can make these things quite clean and readable.  so far i've been just using it as a quick way to write down thoughts, so i apologize for the lack of readability.

i've added the map that we did on free improvisation and the one connecting drumming styles from last year to a dropbox, and you should all have an invite to join, so check it out.  if you want to try your hand at contributing to the maps, please upload your updated versions to the same folder, i'm not sure if images are embedded in the .vue file, so tell me if you can't see the cheezy pics of the drummers.