Subject: Fractal music
Q14: What are sources
of fractal music?
A14: One fractal recording is "The
Devil's Staircase: Composers and Chaos" on the Soundprint label.
A second is "Curves and Jars" by Barry Lewis. You can contact
MPS Music & Video for further information: Rosegarth, Hetton Road,
Houghton-le-Spring, DH5 8JN, England or online at CDeMUSIC (http://www.emf.org/focus_lewisbarry.html).
Does anyone know of others? Mail me at fractal-faq@.
Some references, many from an unpublished article by Stephanie Mason,
are:
- R. Bidlack, Chaotic Systems as Simple (But Complex) Compositional Algorithms,
Computer Music Journal, Fall 1992.
- C. Dodge, A Musical Fractal, Computer Music Journal 12, 13 (Fall
1988), p. 10.
- K. J. Hsu and A. Hsu, Fractal Geometry of Music, Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science, USA 87 (1990), pp. 938-941.
- 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.
- C. Pickover, Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected,
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1992.
- P. Prusinkiewicz, Score Generation with L-Systems, International
Computer Music Conference 86 Proceedings, 1986, pp. 455-457.
- Byte 11, 6 (June 1986), pp. 185-196.
Online resources include:
- Well
Tempered Fractal v3.0
by Robert Greenhouse
- http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/people/schulz/fmusic/wtf/
- A fractal
music C++ package is available at
- http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~gpzF93/inSanity.html
- The
Fractal Music Project (Claus-Dieter Schulz)
- http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/people/schulz/fmusic
- Chua's
Oscillator: Applications of Chaos to Sound and Music
- http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/People/gmk/Projects/ChuaSoundMusic/ChuaSoundMusic.html
- Fractal Music
Lab
- http://members.aol.com/strohbeen/fml.html
- Fractal Music - Phil
Thompson
- http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cenobyte/
- fractal music in MIDI
format by Jose Oscar Marques
- http://midiworld.com/jmarques.htm
- Don Archer's fractal art and
music contains several pieces of fractal music in MIDI format.
- http://www.dorsai.org/~arch/
-
- LMUSe, a
DOS program that generates MIDI music and files from 3D L-systems.
- http://www.interport.net/~dsharp/lmuse.html
There is now a Fractal Music mailing list. It's purposes are:
- To inform people about news, updates, changes on the Fractal Music
Projects WWW pages.
- To encourage discussion between people working in that area.
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