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From: fredg@marob.uucp (Fred Goldrich)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Fractal Music References Sought
Summary: Reference to Article
Message-ID: <27C166D4.1C03@marob.uucp>
Date: 19 Feb 91 17:56:35 GMT
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In article <30487@usc> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
>I know this subject has come up before, but now a friend has asked for this
>information. Please email or post any references or other information you 
>have on the applications of fractals to music. My friend is especially in-
>terested in fractal generation of wavetables, if this has ever been down.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Bill Alves

	Your friend may be interested in an article entitled "Fractal
Geometry of Music (physics of melody)", by Kenneth J. Hsu and Andreas
J. Hsu, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 87, pp. 938-941, February 1990.
It purports to show that the frequency spectrum of melodic intervals
(at least in some Bach works) obeys a fractal distribution law.

	I found the article to be of questionable value, but it may
provide a point of departure for future work, and your friend may
simply want to know what other people are doing.

		-- Fred Goldrich
-- 
	Fred Goldrich
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