Fractal Music - Image Sonifications (IV) - Flame Fractal (II)

Sonification of a flame 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).

- Red/Blue information transcribed to left/right channels. Green information computed separately and merged into file.

- Brightness of pixels mapped to dynamic range.

- Best if lisened with headphones.

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

Postprocessing: reverb added.

Fractal image rendered with Apophysis.

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
• flame
• apophysis
• Gustavo
• Diaz
• Jerez
• spectral
• contemporary
• sonification
• fractals
• math
• mathematics
• alien
• haunting
• misterious

[Jdonovanford]

Which software do you use for sonification?

[suphysis]

@Jdonovanford I use several: Photosounder, AudioPaint, Spear (for spectral analysis)

[ninjatoothpaste]

After seeing these recurring patterns that were difficult to encapsulate and recognize as anything specific, with a feeling that there was more to them, I searched the net for months and eventually found fractals (hadn't heard the word fractal before, seems silly that I hadn't now I have), they were what I was seeing! Truly awesome! I've begun learning math again so that I can study them more. (I don't much like math either but I feel compelled).

[ninjatoothpaste]

Fractals are at the heart almost everything I think, I remember tripping on LSD the first time, I thought I was beginning to go insane when I started to see patterns everywhere, when I closed my eyes I saw more abstract patterns of infinite complexity too, I zoomed in on the patterns in my head thinking that logically they should reach a limit (spirals going towards a centre point for example, but the more I zoomed in the more was revealed.

[realself1]

This is in microtones, isn't it? very nice, to hear something beyond our norm.

[XazoTak]

Me: "That image looks like something from Apophysis."

*Looks at description* "Hell yeah."

[lunaticoperdido]

@hardinmichael1981 You 're right! I think the same.

[hardinmichael1981]

@hardinmichael1981 i ment PLAY them together!

[hardinmichael1981]

@hardinmichael1981 wow. place this and the Ligeti piece together!

[hardinmichael1981]

@hardinmichael1981 Lux Aeterna by Ligeti : watch?v=Rgg0zh_X-9k&feature=re­lated

[hardinmichael1981]

wow. it sounds like Ligeti's LUX ETERNA!

[ninjatoothpaste]

@lostpianist Cool; interesting nick, I'm also learning to play the piano :D Ohhh also, I've taken to the following piano tunes you can find here on youtube: david Lanz - Christophari's Dream, David Lanz - Dreams Of The Forgotten Child, Secret Garden Piano. Lemme know if you like them, I'm learning Christophari's Dream slowly but surely at the moment :)