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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Fractal Music Generation (summary)
Keywords: I need help
Message-ID: <1990Apr12.150201.12739@kth.se>
Date: 12 Apr 90 15:02:01 GMT
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In article <9613@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, mu298ac@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Philip
Marlowe) writes:
> In article <1990Apr9.151958.26859@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
george@shumv1.ncsu.edu (George Browning) writes:

> 	This is an incredibly obvious statement to make.  Stepwise
> motion is an important attribute of many tonal melodies,and 1/f
> noise
> generates stepwise motion.  So why can't you program 1/f noise to
> produce good tonal melodies?  Because tonal melody is not random; it
> has very strong directionality, and any programmer who wants to

Actually, try making a plot of baroque music, and compare that to
1/f-squared noise. You'll find some interesting similarities !
(Yes, it's 1/f-squared and not 1/f as the original poster said)

Gregorian music is closer to 1/f-cubed or even to the fourth...

Now, where does that leave acid house ? (oh, sorry...)

> 	Previous discussions in this group about fugues being
> "self-similar" shows a lack of understanding about just what a fugue
> is.  Just because something is repeated at the same level, it doesn't

Look at the mandelbrot set. It is self-similar, but skewed,
rotated, mirrored and transformed in various ways. Actually, I
think you could create reasonable fuge-LIKE music (actually, a whole
new type) that was enjoyable using fractals.

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