Musofun: Joseph Schillinger’s Musical Game between American Music, the Soviet Avant-Garde, and Combinatorics

Nikita Braguinski researches the history of attempts to create music automatically, or using mathematical and technical means. Between 2019 and 2021 he is carrying out postdoctoral research on Joseph Schillinger and related topics at Harvard University and at Humboldt University of Berlin, supported by fellowships from the Volkswagen Foundation and the DAAD. He recently published ‘428 Millions of Quadrilles for 5s. 6d.‘: John Clinton’s Combinatorial Music Machine (19th-Century Music 43, no. 2, Fall 2019).