Fractal Music

This is my place to gather notes about fractal music from far and wide. My own project is Fractal Music Machine.

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Michael Gogins: Iterative Function System fractal music

Michael Gogins has a cool paper about IFS fractal music here. Listen to the recording here. More on his computer music here.

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As I contemplated the strange beauty of fractal forms and processes, my composer’s curiosity was aroused. Quite naturally I wondered, how might these phenomena sound? --John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams’ work Strange and Sacred Noise is fractal music. It’s made with iterative function systems, and realized in percussion instruments. Read the essay for more.

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Fractal micro-beats, water wood frog and bell sounds, all fractal all the time.

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Fractal/AI Music Composition. MIDI samples from multiple compositions, generated using AI in Aural Fractal Music Generator, were passed through various Native Instruments/Reaktor synths to create this piece.

Arranged, edited, mixed, and mastered by real humans, but still with the assistance of computers.

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Mandelbrot Set Sonifications

They’re as beautiful as I thought they would be…

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This was made with Tune Smithy by Robert Inventor, one of the more interesting fractal music apps out there. 

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"Fractal Würfelspiel” music by Dmitri Kormann.

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The Fractal Nature of Music, analyzes existing music for fractal-like structures.

A good introduction to fractals in music. 

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Music made from a fractal. #fractalmusicmachine

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Music made from a Sierpinsky triangle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle).  #fractalmusicmachine

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Music made from a fractal. #fractalmusicmachine

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Music generated from a fractal. Each set of lines unfolds from its parent line, in the pattern of the original set of lines (1). The rhythm corresponds to the lines in the graphics. The frequencies are also generated by the unfolding of the lines in the fractal. #fractalmusicmachine

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Here are some tracks created with my various experiments in fractal music making.