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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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Subject: Re: Hofstadter on computer music and Fractals
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 23:33:19 EDT
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> To read is to understand, sort of Numen et nomen (sp?).  The regular
> irregularity of music might very well come within the scope of the
> little monsters fractal geometry describes.  The only problem is that
> at current, fractalizing algorthms take a while to do there work, and
> most music generators are fairly fast (but then that is what film is for).

	I once played around with a fractal composition algorithm on
my Apple. Nothing fancy, just a short routine that picked the pitch of
each note from a user-given key. Of the 30 or so short pieces I had it
compose, I was pleasantly surprised when two of them turned out (I
thought) rather interesting.  I think fractals have a lot of promise
for computer-generated music. Is anyone doing any serious music stuff
with them?

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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