Kyle Sager Music . com

I have been a musician since I could barely walk. I was born 2 miles from my present home in East Metro Atlanta, and have lived my entire life in the Metro Atlanta area excepting 4 years as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia not far away. After attending UGA for business in the 80s, I worked just over two decades in IT and financial services.

Around 10 years ago, I undertook a metamorphosis, returning my focus to music while raising two daughters as a single dad (widowed but today happily engaged), and while encouraging both daughters to  pursue careers in the arts. One daughter became an audio engineer for a touring Blue Grass Hall of Famer who recently performed before aggregate audiences of 60,000 at one of the nation's longest-running blue-grass festivals in Telluride, Colorado.   Her younger sister was a protégé for two years with Atlanta's most renowned ballet dancers at Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre. She will attend CLI's acclaimed dance conservatory in Southhampton, MA, beginning in Fall 2023.

About to be an empty-nester and exploring life's adventure with a fantastic girl I first met nearly 40 years ago (my fiance Catherine), I go public with my music theory this year. Catherine, I am thankful for you every single day!  Meeting you again was one of the luckiest days of my life! I would have never mustered the courage to attempt any of this without you.

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Today, I am pleased to introduce the musical world to the concept of Fractional Mapping, the idea that fractions in music ("just intervals") form a nominally interactive field with shape and texture, where invervals express nearby fractions so that waves are influenced by more than one fraction, and where perceptual space between fractions matters...a terrain of sorts, a landscape of rational numbers that notes traverse. The shape and texture of that landscape has interesting lessons for music as well as for the physics of the cochlea and resonance  elsewhere in the real world.

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Fractional Mapping poses interesting questions and challenges for:

     -Early to mid-level ear-training,
     -Visualization (computer modeling),
     -Sound manipulation,
     -Musical style and composition analysis,
     -Atonal music,

     -Otoacoustic and Psychoacoustic research,

     -Resonance on graduated wave channels that respond to frequency spectrums.

I invite you to explore Fractional Mapping Theory as well as my music here and in related links.

Welcome!

May your life be melodic, symphonic, and filled with exuberant dance.

Kyle