Brian Miller
@bmllr.net
Music theorist, UMich lecturer teaching about computing, music, and other things. Interested in intellectual history, style, semiotics, greyhounds, and tennis
Happy to send a copy to anyone without access to Oxford's clunky handbooks site. A lot of other great pieces by friends and colleagues also just came online in the last couple days
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy to send a copy to anyone without access to Oxford's clunky handbooks site. A lot of other great pieces by friends and colleagues also just came online in the last couple days
The full volume is still coming online, but my piece in the Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies just appeared - it's a brief reflection on the idea of replication in music theory as seen through the lens of some literary and art-historical thought experiments
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Rethinking Replication in Leonard Meyer’s Theory of Musical Style
AbstractAs with many terms that appear ubiquitously across both technical and popular discourses, “style” is an unstable concept. This chapter argues that
doi.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The full volume is still coming online, but my piece in the Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies just appeared - it's a brief reflection on the idea of replication in music theory as seen through the lens of some literary and art-historical thought experiments
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Ok the meme where you google a made up idiom and the AI overview confidently explains what it means is real and I love it
April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ok the meme where you google a made up idiom and the AI overview confidently explains what it means is real and I love it
Great news, congratulations!
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Great news, congratulations!
UM is eliminating all DEI offices and programming but don’t worry, we’re giving everyone AI assistants
March 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
UM is eliminating all DEI offices and programming but don’t worry, we’re giving everyone AI assistants
In any case totally agreed that communication from the dean is needed!
February 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
In any case totally agreed that communication from the dean is needed!
That’s good to know. I know of TT faculty concerned about third year review (which is technically a “renewal”) who were assured that that doesn’t fall under the policy - obviously not the same thing but suggests something similar as far as how this is being interpreted
February 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
That’s good to know. I know of TT faculty concerned about third year review (which is technically a “renewal”) who were assured that that doesn’t fall under the policy - obviously not the same thing but suggests something similar as far as how this is being interpreted
I’d be curious to know what you heard from LEO, I was lucky enough to get my next contract signed last week (!) but very concerned for the lecturer community generally…
February 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’d be curious to know what you heard from LEO, I was lucky enough to get my next contract signed last week (!) but very concerned for the lecturer community generally…
I guess maybe that’s what the sequel is about
February 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I guess maybe that’s what the sequel is about
Just watched Sicario, very good film, but failed to answer the question of whether the existence of Sicario implies the existence of Sicaluigi
February 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Just watched Sicario, very good film, but failed to answer the question of whether the existence of Sicario implies the existence of Sicaluigi
I love music that has typical events worth noting, not as big a fan of what modes do to my brain
February 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I love music that has typical events worth noting, not as big a fan of what modes do to my brain
Beyond the ghoulish content, the straight up libidinal glee right on the surface of the language of these executive orders and policies and whatnot is so disturbing.
January 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Beyond the ghoulish content, the straight up libidinal glee right on the surface of the language of these executive orders and policies and whatnot is so disturbing.
Me after a day of grading chatgpt essays
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Me after a day of grading chatgpt essays
Thank goodness they left Ohio out of it
January 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Thank goodness they left Ohio out of it
Lynch was one of the greatest of all time. Watching Eraserhead in college completely upended my understanding of what film was, and the ending of The Return is one of my favorite sequences in any work of art. What a loss
January 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Lynch was one of the greatest of all time. Watching Eraserhead in college completely upended my understanding of what film was, and the ending of The Return is one of my favorite sequences in any work of art. What a loss
It’s like the right wing “ruthkanda forever”
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s like the right wing “ruthkanda forever”
Gotta give credit where it’s due, “The apokálypsis cannot resolve our fights over 1619, but it can resolve our fights over Covid-19” is one of the worst sentences I’ve ever read
January 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Gotta give credit where it’s due, “The apokálypsis cannot resolve our fights over 1619, but it can resolve our fights over Covid-19” is one of the worst sentences I’ve ever read
It’s long been known that the main requirement for getting a paper into SMT is having diagrams, so…
December 30, 2024 at 12:32 AM
It’s long been known that the main requirement for getting a paper into SMT is having diagrams, so…
That is indeed very generous but probably right that death is the only thing that could separate corporate profits from individual shareholders’ wealth!
December 6, 2024 at 6:10 PM
That is indeed very generous but probably right that death is the only thing that could separate corporate profits from individual shareholders’ wealth!
Wtf is the “delicate balance of generating profits for shareholders and letting shareholders maintain their personal wealth” even supposed to mean??
December 6, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Wtf is the “delicate balance of generating profits for shareholders and letting shareholders maintain their personal wealth” even supposed to mean??
That’s how we know AI isn’t actually smart - it should have told him to monetize access to the magic book!!
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 AM
That’s how we know AI isn’t actually smart - it should have told him to monetize access to the magic book!!
Great paper, among other things I’ve also found Daston’s thin/thick distinction a nice entry point for thinking about these questions, and have been trying to use it in teaching about this stuff
December 5, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Great paper, among other things I’ve also found Daston’s thin/thick distinction a nice entry point for thinking about these questions, and have been trying to use it in teaching about this stuff
US academia should just collectively give tenure to everyone with the title ‘lecturer’, problem solved
December 1, 2024 at 6:06 PM
US academia should just collectively give tenure to everyone with the title ‘lecturer’, problem solved
Added to my home for the holidays list!
November 30, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Added to my home for the holidays list!