Fractal Music #13

computer-generated music created in 2007

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fractal
• mandelbrot
• set
• chaos
• geometry
• microtonal
• electronic
• computer
• composition

[MaxRidgway]

@realself1 I understand what you're saying - it might be possible to get what you're describing by mixing different fractal pieces, cutting and pasting and overlapping, etc. It's hard to get any degree of real control when rendering fractal images to music - the results are so unpredictable. On the other hand, that's what I like most about this music - it's free from our own musical prejudices and taste - like a window into a completely alien aesthetic.

[realself1]

Max, you got it goin' on. Beautiful music. May I offer a musical suggestion? for true "fractal" symphony, the "big" sounds need to generate smaller, faster and quieter sounds trailing off them, leading to superfast tiny sounds trailing off them, all endlessly recreating themselves. All in infinite microtones, more complex waveforms for slower sounds, cleaner simpler for fast sounds. Any case, thanks for posting your stuff.

[MaxRidgway]

@alexalexa210 Yes, it's called Mandel 32. It's a very flexible program, allowing for lot's of control of complexity and density, both in rhythm and melody. The more I worked with it, the more I could refine the outcomes. In this particular case I used one of the Javanese gamelan scales (I can't remember if it's slendro or pelog on this one) and I used a fractal without much happening so the music would have a lot of space in it (as you hear).

[alexalexa210]

We're doing fractal projects in my Calculus class and for mine I'm researching fractals and chaos in classical music. These videos are really interesting and fascinating, thank you for posting them. Did you use the same program for this one as you did for your first few?