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Fractals in Music Fractal music has been described as “Melodic, yet technological at the same time”, Christopher M. Paul B commented on the music as well: “Wow. The music is somewhere between refreshing and disturbing. But with as open a mind as I can muster, it really is intriguing, kind of like a half-remembered dream”. However, Ralph F. had a different view of fractal music: “This….music? I find no originality, no creativity, no participation of the practitioner of these sounds. This is noise, and ranks with rap, on the level of noise. After 50+ years of listening, I know the difference between music and audio garbage. This computer-generated silliness rates a big -9 trash”. Fractal music is a combination of predictability and randomness. Many times fractal music is based on fractal images. A relatively new branch of mathematics, chaos, explains fractals; the equations which define the fractal image can be solved and then used to create fractal music. One way to do this is by assigning each musical note a number so that for each solution to the equation, there will be a corresponding note, and in this way a musical piece can be created. A computer is used to generate this music from the equations and thus define amplitude, pitch and frequency of fractal music. Therefore fractal music is said to be discovered instead of created in that you may find a beautiful fractal and discover the beautiful piece of music associated with its defining equation. Here are some fractal music pieces: http://www.pjbmusic2.freeserve.co.uk/ |
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