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From: fredg@marob.uucp (Fred Goldrich)
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Subject: Fractal Analysis of Music
Summary: NY Times 4/16 article
Keywords: fractal music Bach Hsu
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Date: 18 Apr 91 13:14:12 GMT
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Hello all --

	There was an article in Tuesday's (4/16) NY Times called "J.S. Bach
+ Fractals = New Music."  It concerned the work of K.J. and A.J. Hsu of
Switzerland, a father-and-son, geologist-and-musician team, who recently
published a paper in the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

	I checked yesterday, and it is too soon for the (42nd. St.!) library
to have the current journal issue.  However, the Hsus published a paper last
year on a similar subject ("Fractal Geometry of Music", Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA, Vol. 87, pp. 938-941, February 1990).  As both a scientist and a
musician, I read it with great interest, but I did not find it terribly
convincing.

	Is anyone out there familiar with their work?  I would very much
like to get some discussion going on this subject.

			-- Fred Goldrich



-- 
	Fred Goldrich
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