Q14: What is some information on fractal music? A14: One fractal recording is "The Devil's Staircase: Composers and Chaos" on the Soundprint label. Some references, many from an unpublished article by Stephanie Mason, are: 1. R. Bidlack, Chaotic Systems as Simple (But Complex) Compositional Algorithms, _Computer Music Journal_, Fall 1992. 2. C. Dodge, A Musical Fractal, _Computer Music Journal_ 12, 13 (Fall 1988), p. 10. 3. K. J. Hsu and A. Hsu, Fractal Geometry of Music, _Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA_ 87 (1990), pp. 938-941. 4. K. J. Hsu and A. Hsu, Self-similatrity of the '1/f noise' called music., _Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA_ 88 (1991), pp. 3507-3509. 5. C. Pickover, _Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected_, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1992. 6. P. Prusinkiewicz, Score Generation with L-Systems, _International Computer Music Conference 86 Proceedings_, 1986, pp. 455-457. 7. P. Prusinkiewicz and J. Hanan, _Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants_, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989. 8. P. Prusinkiewicz and A. Lindenmayer, _The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants_, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1990. ISBN 0-387-97297-8. A very good book on L-systems, which can be used to model plants in a very realistic fashion. The book contains many pictures. 9. _Byte_ 11, 6 (June 1986), pp. 185-196. A IBM-PC program for fractal music is available by ftp to spanky.trimf.ca [128.189.128.27] in [pub.fractals.programs.ibmpc] WTF20.ZIP.Go Back Up