[LAU] Fractally fuzzy music?

[andy baxter]

david wrote:
> I've thought about a "music" in which notes might have "fractal 
> fuzziness" to them - for example, what looks like a quarter note is 
> really 8 simultaneous (or non-simultaneous) 32nd notes, each having a 
> frequency that is some fractally-derived distance from the base quarter 
> note's frequency, and perhaps their timing/duration could also be 
> fractally derived ... I don't suppose someone knows of such a thing 
> already being done?
>
>   
Talking of music which would have to be generated programatically, I 
remember reading once (in Godel Escher Bach I think) of some music which 
had been generated as follows:

- you start playing the first note in a scale, together with notes an 
octave above and below at half the volume.
- then you go up through the scale, slowly reducing the volume of each 
note as it gets further from the root note, and increasing it as it gets 
closer.
- new notes are brought in very quietly below the bottom to replace the 
ones in the lower octave which are moving up towards the root.
- when you get back to the first note, you can loop the track.

Hope this makes sense? Apparently it sounds like a never ending rising 
scale.

If anyone knows of a recording of this, I would be interested to hear 
it; if not I might have a go at making one.

andy :)