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From: alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Fractal music generation
Keywords: fractal algorithms
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Date: 10 Mar 90 17:17:15 GMT
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Organization: William J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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I need some kind souls to send me some algorithms to generate music based
on fractals.

I don't know much about this subject, but it occurred to me that a fractal
music algorithm might be used as an aid in writing fugues.  I have tried
one experiment already, based on the geometrical shape known as a "Koch
curve", where a pitch and duration corresponds to segment angle and length,
respectively.

My suspicion is that I'm going about it all wrong.  My experimented generated
a sequence of notes that sounded interesting.  The problem is that it was
a single sequence and the notes were all the same length.  How can a fractal
generator be made to create overlapping sequences of notes which have
harmonically correct relations to each other?

Music is a serial event that unfolds as time passes.  I am only able to
visualize fractals as geometric entities which where all parts exist at once.

Please e-mail me suggestions, no matter how simple or bizarre.  They will
be appreciated.  Thanks.

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