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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Fractal Music Generation (summary)
Keywords: I need help
Message-ID: <7624@becker.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 90 16:40:28 GMT
References: <562@bilver.UUCP> <1990Apr9.151958.26859@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <9613@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Apr12.150201.12739@kth.se>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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In article <1990Apr12.150201.12739@kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
|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:
|[...]
|> 	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.

	I know some folks who actually did this.
	They seem to have used Scho:nberg's "Principles
	of Harmony" (I might have the name wrong) to
	translate fractal states into MIDI outputs.
	I don't know how they interpreted the text
	to produce the results, but it was reasonably
	musical, but not particularly melodic.
	As the fractal was being generated on an
	Amiga, the music would change according to the
	part of the M set and depth of recursion...

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