Xref: utzoo alt.fractals:1175 comp.music:3139 Newsgroups: alt.fractals,comp.music Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!isaacso From: isaacso@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Eric J. Isaacson) Subject: Re: Fractal Analysis of Music Message-ID: Keywords: fractal music Bach Hsu Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <280D9BA5.2D42@marob.uucp> <1991Apr19.062030.9385@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 00:14:30 GMT Lines: 33 andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes: >In article <280D9BA5.2D42@marob.uucp> fredg@marob.uucp (Fred Goldrich) writes: >> 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. >> Is anyone out there familiar with their work? I would very much >>like to get some discussion going on this subject. >I read the article. They seem to be a doing a pretty good job >of stripping the life right out of old Bach, hm? >If that's ``work'', then this field is in trouble. >Harrrrumph. This work is also described in the German magazine (journal?) _Spektrum der Wissenschaft_ (the German edition of Scientific American, I believe) (December 1990), 48-49, in an article entitled "Sind die Strukturen der Musik fraktal?" Two specific examples (Bach's C-major and a-minor two-part inventions) are discussed. I don't have the time now to summarize, but when I return from a trip on Tuesday, if this thread is still going on and it looks like a summary is still desired, I'll provide one. Perhaps I'll also comment on the "stripping life from Bach..." comment. Only if I'm in the mood for a debate that will likely go nowhere, though... -- Eric J. Isaacson (the other) Internet: isaacso@ucs.indiana.edu School of Music--Indiana Univ. NeXT Mail: isaacso@bartok.music.indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405 -- I am NOT the author of A86 and other -- (812) 855-7832(o)/333-1827(h) -- outstanding software...I wish I were... --