My analytical research interests include: the analysis of popular music, pitch-class set analysis and mathematical modelling of pitch.
This was the proposal for the presentation Melvin Backstrom and I gave at the November 2018 conference of the Society for Music Theory on the Grateful Dead’s “Blues for Allah”, including the abstract and supplementary diagrams.
Other recent analytical projects include: the analysis of the music of the ‘blues queens’ of the 1920s. Some of my work can be viewed at my academia.edu page.
In terms of technological research, I am engaged with the development of signal processing applications for the electric guitar. Many of these can be heard here.
Sundar Subramanian 