I think y'all should both debate it and make it!

This has been one of the most lively discussions here in years!

Back in 2000 I stirred up some debate here on what fractal music
really means. I tried to give it a definition, but I think in the
end, the definition I proposed was a little too loose to be useful.
(Say that 5 times fast...)

I do think, at the end of the day, the music based on the fractal
images is indeed fractal. And despite my (once legendary) insistence
that humans don't putz with the output of their musical fractal
generators (I preferred 'pure' fractals), I still think that the human
arrangements of fractally generated patterns also qualifies as
fractal.

Shawn


My earlier post, cleaned up a bit, may be found in our files
repository:
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/ICvkSLsTx10Ro8chEJg9hZSJYeNj4Klx_CrLTO_6C
9Gqma9CitVVcMwmcaAW9kMDMFKeya87gzPnEkESLcX1Y267bvqjOu3F1xmR-
VnaUqc/FractalDefinitions1-shawns-take.doc