HASTAC Commons | Tom Benjamin | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/tombenjamin/activity/ Activity feed for Tom Benjamin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:18:54 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a2e35a7dac0f8230bb18047f2948371b Tom Benjamin edited the blog post Welcome to Structural Music Theory in the group Structural Music Theory https://structuraltheoryofmusic.hcommons.org/2026/02/16/welcome-to-structural-music-theory/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:14:06 +0000 The search for independent abstract structures to explain nature is very ancient. The I-Ching had a 6-bit binary coding that produced a universe of 64 possible combinations. The ancient Greeks and others had […]

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