14: What is some information on fractal music?
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This article is from the Fractal FAQ, by Ermel Stepp stepp@muvms6.mu.wvnet.edu with numerous contributions by others.
14: What is some information on fractal music?
One fractal recording is "The Devil's Staircase: Composers and
Chaos" on the Soundprint label.
Some references, many from an unpublished article by Stephanie Mason,
are:
1. R. Bidlack, Chaotic Systems as Simple (But Complex) Compositional
Algorithms, _Computer Music Journal_, Fall 1992.
2. C. Dodge, A Musical Fractal, _Computer Music Journal_ 12, 13 (Fall
1988), p. 10.
3. K. J. Hsu and A. Hsu, Fractal Geometry of Music, _Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science, USA_ 87 (1990), pp. 938-941.
4. K. J. Hsu and A. Hsu, Self-similatrity of the '1/f noise' called music.,
_Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA_ 88 (1991), pp.
3507-3509.
5. C. Pickover, _Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected_, St.
Martin's Press, New York, 1992.
6. P. Prusinkiewicz, Score Generation with L-Systems, _International
Computer Music Conference 86 Proceedings_, 1986, pp. 455-457.
7. _Byte_ 11, 6 (June 1986), pp. 185-196.
An IBM-PC program for fractal music is available at
ftp://spanky.triumf.ca in [pub.fractals.programs.ibmpc] WTF23.ZIP.
[142.90.112.1]
A fractal music C++ package is available at
http://neural.hampshire.edu:10001/~gzenie/inSanity.html .
Also, it may b helpful to access:
http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/people/schulz/fmusic
The Fractal Music Project (Claus-Dieter Schulz)
http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/People/gmk/Projects/ChuaSoundMusic/ChuaSoundMusic.html
Chua's Oscillator: Applications of Chaos to Sound and Music
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