DREW FLIEDER

Peer-Reviewed Papers

• Functional Harmony After Tonality: Composing with Orbit Covers, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (2026)
• A Theory of Scales and Orbit Covers, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (2026)
• A review of Dmitri Tymoczko’s "Tonality: An Owner’s Manual," Journal of Mathematics and Music (forthcoming)
• Lifting pitch-class spaces into ambient temperaments, Journal of Mathematics and Music (2025)
• Graph-theoretical insights into the horizontal-vertical duality of music, Perspectives of New Music (forthcoming)
• Towards a mathematical foundation for music theory and composition: a theory of structure, Journal of Mathematics and Music (2024)

Books & Monographs

• Toward a Universal Meta-Theory of Music: An Inquiry into Musical Signs (Ph.D. dissertation, 2025)
• Tools for Worldmaking: Universal Concepts for Mental Reality (self-published monograph, 2022)

Selected Projects

• Esthesis and Poiesis: On the Foundations of Science and Art
• Dicisigns, Facts, and Judgments
• Mathematical Principles of a Generalized Tonal Practice
• Type Theory for the Working Mathematical Music Theorist (arXiv preprint)
• Applications of Categorical Probability Theory to Music Theory and Composition