Fractal Music - Image Sonifications (II) - Mandelbrot Set

Sonification of the Mandelbrot set fractal. Composed by Gustavo Díaz-Jerez.

Procedure:

- X axis of image mapped to time, in seconds.

- Y axis of image mapped to frequency (27.5 - 4163Hz, continuous, exponential scale, using sinusoids).

- Brightness of image mapped to dynamic range. Black (0,0,0) = silence (-INF dB). White (255,255,255) = Max (0 dB)

The right side shows a spectrogram and a bar diagram of the sound. The bottom shows the wave form.

Postprocessing: bass frequencies boost.

Notice that this is not somehow inspired or "based" on the image. It IS how the image translates to sound for the given paramenters.

More information and sheet music available at
http://www.fractalmusicpress.net

http://www.gustavodiazjerez.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fractal
• Music
• mandelbrot
• set
• Gustavo
• Diaz
• Jerez
• spectral
• music
• contemporary
• sonification
• fractals
• math
• mathematics
• alien

[DirtySinusoid]

using what program? this would be interesting to try some experimenting on..

[suphysis]

@DirtySinusoid I use several: Ultrafractal to generate the picture, Audiopaint and Photosounder to transform into sound, Spear and Audiosculpt (mac) for analysis, and some general-purpose audio programs to manipulate the waveform, show spectrogram, etc (Adobe Audition, etc).

[suphysis]

No, every row becomes an oscillator. The frequency of the oscillator depends on image height, volume on brightness of every pixel. the image was (if I remember correctly) 500 pixels tall, so there are 500 oscillators in total. It's a kind of massive additive-synthesis.

[khyemamri]

the mandelbrot set just landed in my living room...

thanks and peace.

[trebe123]

Would there be a way to do this and show the picture that is currently being played? And could you set it up to go backwards? So your zooming out rather than in? So your essentially asending?

I found the sound to be very meditative, but have absolutely no programming ability.

[purplegumibear]

@DirtySinusoid onscreen looks like goldwave..

[kontekzt]

a like the sound, but music isn`t really fractal here, picture is... good job anyway

[shpongledmonk]

This sounds extremely similar to the voyager recordings. Very cool. Thanks!

[brightphoebus]

Reeeeealy weird. Neat. Kinda scarey. Definately makes me want to understand it.

[RoboticusMusic]

shit I was thinking of something like this. I have a feeling one day computers will become so powerful that a song made by the mandlebrot synced up with the universe will phase cancel it into oblivion.