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Who am I?

Geometry determines arithmetic.

— M. Hindry and J. Silverman

I am Edgar Delgado Vega, a musician born in Lima who develops software at the intersection of mathematics, computation, and music.

My vision is to create abstractions through structural analogies that naturally lead to mathematical discovery from the musical perspective and vice versa. To this end, I design code libraries that enable tackling complex problems in creative ways.

Code should be seen as well as heard, underlying algorithms viewed as well as their visual outcome.

— TOPLAP Manifesto
Picture of modular forms library on Sonic Pi
Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves for Sonic Pi

As someone who enjoys questioning things, I prefer to reconstruct algorithms and music theory with sufficient mathematical rigor to bring to light underlying patterns. This process also involves considering asymmetries and non-commutativity, and I find that such a systematic approach is a genuine pathway to new concepts.

Precise knowledge of the behavior of an analytic function in the neighborhood of its singular points is a source of number-theoretic theorems.

— E. Hecke
Picture of 5D Hyperoctahedron (Discrete and Continuous)
5D Figurate Number Hyperoctahedron: discrete pattern in Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} (left) versus continuous meromorphic representations in C\mathbb{C} (center and right)

Interests

I work with structures from number theory as a basis for computer-assisted music composition. In my early work, I was oriented toward explanatory theory, but I soon shifted to exploratory models, in which my interest focused on formal systems rather than their correspondence with canonical musical practice.

  • Mathematical Music Theory
  • Modular forms, elliptic curves, and figurate numbers

Teaching Experience

I have teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in live coding and musicology with a technological focus. See my teaching feedback.

I've tried to learn the hidden beauty in various things, but still for many areas the source of interest is for me a complete mystery. My theory is that too often people project their human weaknesses/properties onto their mathematical activity. There are obvious examples on the surface: for example, the idea of a classification of some objects is an incarnation of collector instincts, the search for maximal values is another form of greed, computability/decidability comes from the desire of a total control.
Fascination with iterations is similar to the hypnotism of rhythmic music.

— Maxim Kontsevich
Technologies

  • TypeScript, Node.js, Express, SQL, Git

  • Some knowledge of Ruby and Python

  • LaTex, GeoGebra, Zotero, BibTex

  • Sonic Pi, MuseScore, Reaper

Education

UNIR · Master's Degree in Music Research

2019 – 2020 · Spain

I received the highest distinction with a perfect score in Computational Music Analysis. Overall average: Outstanding · TFM: I applied the theory of simplicial complexes (MaMuTh) to analyze a musical style using specialized software. 💻 HexaChord, Geogebra, LaTex

USMP · B.A. in Music

2009 – 2015 · Lima, Perú
© 2026 Edgar Delgado Vega