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dirtysloth
Fluffy-Esque
USA
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 Posted - 11/28/2001 : 7:28:47 PM
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Anyone ever listened to this kind of music before? Music already is mathematical, but this is taking it to another level... like taking equations and making them audible. You can check some out at:
http://artists.mp3s.com/info/229/fractal_music.html
Some of it is really awful, like one song is basically nothing but static, but it's still interesting to think about the theory behind it. "Mira" and "Rossler" are cool.
There are programs to make this kind of music, such as FractMus 2000, which you can find at www.download.com. I tried it once and had little luck with it, but I thought I'd share anyway.
Peace,
Patrick 
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Silky The Pimp
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 11/28/2001 : 8:10:22 PM
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That was.... interesting.
-J
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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Posted - 11/28/2001 : 10:04:03 PM
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::stunned silence::
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crash258
Chatterbox
USA
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Posted - 11/29/2001 : 11:51:40 AM
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Yeah Ive studied it a little, pretty cool stuff.
Fractal music had been around for quite some time now.
Composers have been pushing the envelope, coming up with more and more ideas.
-p
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tericee
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2001 : 02:34:47 AM
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I kind of liked Music from Prime Numbers. Henon and Martin sounded like they were opposite tunes, if that makes any sense.
BTW, did you see the movie "Pi?" I found it similarly interesting to think about the theory behind it.
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GuitarGuy305
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2001 : 1:09:41 PM
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That reminds me of this thing Pete Townshend was talking about the song Baba O'Riley. I'm sure most of you have heard that song (American Beauty is one of the movies it's been in). But if you've heard it you've heard the synthesizer stuff that beings it and backs the track....here's what Pete says about that stuff.
"This was a number I wrote when I was doing these experiments with tapes on the synthesizer. Among my plans was to take a person out of the audience and feed information--height, weight, autobiographical details--about the person into the synthesizer. The synthesizer would then select notes from the pattern of that person. It would be like translating a person into music. On this particular track (Baba O'Riley) I programmed details about the life of Meher Baba and that provided the backing for the number.
Cool Stuff.
Adam
There's a lot more to music than notes on a page.
I am Ion, the priest of the inner sanctuary. I submit myself to an unendurable torment. I dismembered myself, and I have become spirit.
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tericee
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2001 : 1:36:25 PM
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I wonder what my music would sound like... I guess if I ever meet Pete Townsend, I'll have to ask him to do that for me.
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GuitarGuy305
Alien Abductee
USA
2007 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2001 : 2:14:19 PM
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I often wonder that too, just what my music, or the music of my friends and family would sound like.
Adam
There's a lot more to music than notes on a page.
I am Ion, the priest of the inner sanctuary. I submit myself to an unendurable torment. I dismembered myself, and I have become spirit.
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enthuTIMsiast
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 12/27/2001 : 2:24:12 PM
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Is that just the background music or the whole song? I mean, did someone play something over that, so that it wouldn't and couldn't be completely randomly based on personal statistics or not? Or was it simply what the computer picked?
It is cool, either way. And yeah, I'd love to hear myself.
-Jason-
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GuitarGuy305
Alien Abductee
USA
2007 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2001 : 2:43:02 PM
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Baba O'Riley has other instruments and stuff, and vocals, and is a pretty kickass song. It starts out "Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals..." The synth starts the song out, and i think plays throughout the whole thing, Id have to grab the CD to know for sure, but I'm pretty sure it synth is there the whole song.
Adam
There's a lot more to music than notes on a page.
I am Ion, the priest of the inner sanctuary. I submit myself to an unendurable torment. I dismembered myself, and I have become spirit.
Email: Guitar_Boy1@yahoo.com
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