ohhh dude, youre totally right. :P nice title btw, ahah :)
i was actually thinking of incorporating fractals otherwise, structurally.
ie, number of measures, key change, chord change, etc.
but yeh nothigns exciting about some parabolae :P
lates
ian/delphi
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> While I've never dealth with fractals, and anything more than just tones,
> I've played around with mathematical formulae back in the college days as
> far as programatically generating tones within a given range.
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> Speaking as a math geek and a music geek, I hate to say the results were,
> more often than not, pretty dull. But that's to be expected, of course.
> (Again, I was just dealing with tones -- or something that would be just
> one out of a gazillion tracks comprising a typical track we'd talk about
> here, so take this with a micron of salt.)
>
> The most interesting equations were ones associated with physics,
> chemistry, or astronomy. Things involving rigorous mathematics (your
> bell curve formulae, your quadratic formulae) were the ones that usually
> didn't sound as interesting. It does really depend on *how* you use these
> formulae of course, so I don't mean to dis my mathemetic bruthas and
> sistas. :)
>
> And I'm not saying any of this to discourage folks from using raw math to
> make music.. In fact, I encourage it. But as long as raw math isn't the
> *only* thing that involved in creating the music. It's the fine tuning,
> tweaking, and subsequent human input that will make pieces like this
> interesting and memorable... (again, all IMHO)
>
> Speaking of which, my *very first* record I ever bought (for 25 cents at a
> garage sale) when I was 9 years old was this astronomical data simulation
> record called "Johannes Kepler's Harmony Of The Worlds". Each track
> essentially combines the vibrations, tones, and beats generated by the
> nine planets, using each planet's size, radius of orbit, orbit angle, etc.
> as parameters to the sounds each would generate. All combined, the
> results were pretty damn disturbing. Coil wished they could make bowels
> churn like this record. And this is coming from a Coil fan. :)
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