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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
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Subject: Re: Fractal Analysis of Music
Keywords: fractal music Bach Hsu
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Date: 19 Apr 91 07:22:18 GMT
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In article <280D9BA5.2D42@marob.uucp> fredg@marob.uucp (Fred Goldrich) writes:
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;                                                 As both a scientist and a
;musician, I read it with great interest, but I did not find it terribly
;convincing.
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;	Is anyone out there familiar with their work?  I would very much
;like to get some discussion going on this subject.

If I didn't know better I'd judge the article to have been a hoax.
The "fractal compression" technique, as far as their example went,
seems to be "remove all 16th notes."

As far as performing even that sort of analysis on CD's -- well, this
I have to see. 

That their "technique" will goad the music community into higher 
productivity --