I agree with Phil (J) that concerns about "classification" are entirely unnecessary to the creative process. It's all about the ears - if it sounds good, do...
Hi there, While answering the last e-mail, I looked up L-System fractals in wikipedia, and I just came across this picture of a Penrose tiling as an L-System: ...
Hi Will, That's an interesting thought. It might be a bit like those L-system trees with flowers and leaves, like the ones you can make with my Virtual Flower...
Hi Phil, I'd say that I have two "hats" as it were. With my mathematical hat on then I'm very interested in the fractal structure behind the music, make tunes...
Indeed, if perhaps not the most amicable one - we've lost one member over it already.... Really, you can all re-classify it as "broccoli music" and I don't ...
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...
BTW just want to make very clear. I don't in any way think that the Tune Smithy fractal tunes are the only musical analogues of a visual fractal. Clearly there...
Sorry, correction to that last e-mail - though probably it is obvious anyway just in case it gets you confused: The similarity is that if you play the tune...
Hi There, This one is fractal by almost any definition - well the rhythm certainly. The pitch also - that's assume you treat the pitch axis much as another...
To what degree would anybody consider Mozart's 41st symphony fractal? It's constructed from very few microscopically small musical units. Could one say that...
... I have never heard any real fractal music. Does it even exist? Of course my SW can generate music from any fractal picture, but it is not fractal music. ...
Hi all, I have a question for Lauri, Phil T, Phil J, Rober W, Dr. Brothers or anyone who wants to answer, can any of you identify a fractal music by listening...
... I did my first experiments 1988 and some results of those are available on my pages. The techniques is not the point but the music generated without too...
Hi, Phil (T). I nothing about you other than the fact that you are talented and passionate about your music. You should probably listen to your friends, take...
Nice thoughts, Robert. I don't think we need to develop a scale of "fracticality" as if we were measuring a hurricane or earthquake. It is what it is. Just...
I think, or hope we all can agree to disagree at times on the particulars of some term or another. If we all agreed 100% of the time and thought identically,...
Just another thought, maybe it will help. I anyway don't think of fractal as a value judgement, any kind of a way of deciding whether the music is better or...
Hi Phil ... mid 1980s, used a mensuration canon. It's a piece I have always loved and made several versions of over the years, but never released on a fractal...
Hi Phil , I think you are missing Harlan's point about the Koch snowflake. He assumes we know what the koch snowflake is, and is pointing out that after you...
Yes don't do this, truth prevails. Honestly I think a lot of it is that he is new to the field and just wasn't aware of the work done. When I first wrote FTS...
Dear Phil, The term fractal music means what anyone wants it to mean, not what an academic wants to make it. Nobody has a monopoly on it, nor should they,...
"I hope this helps to clarify things". Which precisely illustrates my point, Harlan. All over your web-site you assume that such clarification is necessary...
OK. My guess is that our collective time is better spent making music regardless of how we individually choose to classify it. I will try to clarify some...
Hi Lauri, Yes, I think everyone would agree if you take extreme examples, some music is obviously fractal however you draw the line, well certainly my cantors...
Hi, Not being a native English speaker it still seems to me that "Fractal music" and "Music based on fractals" are two different matters. Best, Lauri Gröhn ...
I've nothing further to say on this subject Phil, other than to add this final point... Robert Walker and I have both alluded to something previously that I ...
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