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Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅
Directed Alberto Cetoli Graph@acb brilliant! Can you try with other fractals?
@alberto Try it and let us know :-)
Jazzaria@Jazzaria @acb yes absolutely. Haven't tried yet myself but maybe one could play around with Hutchinson operators fractals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson_operator
@alberto @acb Well I didn't get to other fractals, but I *did* try it with a blues scale - https://mastodon.art/@Jazzaria/109615633555061075
Jazzaria (@[email protected])
https://jazzaria.bandcamp.com/album/fractal-blues Sierpiński's triangle, like all fractals, contains multitudes. What happens if those multitudes are rendered sonically? You get blues within blues within blues... Featuring a compact jazz band of piano, upright bass, bass trombone, baritone and tenor saxophones, trumpets, and drum kit. Inspired by Luis Batalha's (lbatalha.com) harp-based fractal song. #musodon #jazz #blues #fractal
nerdy-horse-digital@acb cool 👍🏻… und jetzt noch auf den Kopf stellen als response….
Knitronomicon@acb I've knitted that! I wish one could get musical 'tags' to hang on things - I'd have that music as a shawl pin!
Dr Elena Lonergan@acb My brain just exploded!
Simon Gredal@acb you can really hear the fractal/recursive nature of it! I’ve recently been playing with a Tower of Hanoi so maybe I’m just atuned to it right now :)
Zabuxx@acb Amazing!!
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia@acb Beautiful ❤️
Nicolas Pettiaux@acb interesting
Dr David Mills@acb beautiful
Dilski 
@acb surprisingly quite festive sounding
Roger Ap Gwillian@acb J S Bach would be proud to have called this his work.
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@acb this is just lovely. Did you pick a scale for it, or is it just regular notes?
@fishidwardrobe I didn’t make it, but it looks like a piano roll, and I’m guessing a regular diatonic scale of some sort
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!
Noah GibbsIf you double the height each time it's going to go up by an octave (assuming height == frequency.) So you wouldn't have to do anything too weird with the scale. It'll sound pretty good already.
Ah, never mind, just saw the piano keys next to it. Yeah, that probably helps more yet 🙂
Mark Armstrong@acb it looks like the tri-force of Zelda fame, and the music does somewhat remind me of the game. Probably coincidental though!
EmJaeCaer@acb I love this so much. Now I want an Adam Neely video on why it works so well.
vetetix@acb fascinating
YingtaiCursor progresses through equilateral triangles filled with dot pattern, all sharing a baseline, but increasing fractally in size and complexity. Each dot corresponds to a note on the piano keyboard across left edge of image. The music reaches a crescendo with each triangle peak, increasing in complexity, length, pitch and loudness. Sounds like Bach, surprisingly catchy.
1st phase: 3 triangles of each size. 2nd phase: triangles are built up gradually over time.
resoluxe@acb That's fantastic!
Kagan MacTane (he/him)@acb That is *FABULOUS!* I do not have words for awesome I think that is.
Jazztronaut@acb This sounds a lot like some of Philip Glass's work!
Bel Lion@acb That was pretty! I could totally see that as background music for an automata workshop in a magitech setting
Ian McLeod@acb Wonderful! Thank you for sharing. Translating a sequence to music was part of a recent Numberphile video which I greatly enjoyed. The music translation starts at about 5:20 but it's well worth watching the intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBU9E-ZOZAI
A Number Sequence with Everything - Numberphile
swiffy@acb this is so cool! It sounds very interesting
Cea Noyes@acb that is so nice! I want it for my wake up alarm.
Ethan 🌒@acb this is really wonderful.
Cosmic Ray@acb wonderful
Gavin Graham@[email protected] pretty sure this is the content you came over here for!
hypergeometric2f1@acb @futurebird So beautiful! things like these make me hopeful about humans.
Harold Daniel 🌞 🇺🇦@acb That is incredible and beautiful.
Dreaming of dad jazz.@acb This is very cool. I've seen other places where music and mathematics intersect so I would have guessed, and some mathematics / music theory nerd could probably explain why.
In fact I would imagine that experiments like this are how mathematics/music theory nerds are born.
This is Mur 
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Did they used a python script to generate MIDI notes out of the triangle coordinates?
Did they used a python script to generate MIDI notes out of the triangle coordinates?
Karsten Schmidt@acb Amazing & loving the build up! I've also had great success with using 1D #CellularAutomata in the same manner. You could also try adding secondary #Fractals/automata to control note durations, create #PolyRhythms, cause key/chord changes, self-modification of rules etc. Here's a video of an installation for which the realtime composed music is using both of these approaches (and other #GenerativeMusic techniques):
V&A Forever Garden Universal Everything
Rainer Burkhardt ❌@acb this is incredible
Vani Srinivasan@acb as much as i love this, it also sounds *exactly* like those piano scale studies i had to learn when i was just starting out lol
Nafeon the Bear@acb this sounds like a procedural fuge XD. Funny.
Dominic Pajak@acb Love this
Rob van der Linde
Michael U@jet @acb yeah you're probably right, lots of DAWs are dark grey.
Anyway Renoise is a #Tracker which originated in the 90's possibly even earlier, from the #DemoScene movement in Europe so they have a lot of meaning to me as I grew with with trackers like FastTracker 2, Impulse Tracker, Sound Tracker etc.
Renoise is a commercial tracker that even works on Linux, there is a free version that mostly lacks export to WAV.
@acb I'm no musicologist, but it reminds me of Ravel's Bolero
Marije van den Berg@acb @daniellebraun lekkere patroontjes, Danielle!
The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖@acb I love this. It’s minimalism but with math.
nash@acb @alienmelon I love this, because one of my favorite play projects involves rendering cellular automata into music, and many 1D cellular automata like to generate Sierpinski triangles -- so I've also listened to a lot of Sierpinski triangles as music! Although none were arranged quite so nicely as this 🥰
Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet@acb
Amazing! It reminds me of bits of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. 🤔 I wonder if Vivaldi was also tinkering with music & maths?
Amazing! It reminds me of bits of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. 🤔 I wonder if Vivaldi was also tinkering with music & maths?
Alan Westbrook@acb I feel like this is kinda cheating by cherry picking only notes in C-Major.
Shujin Academy VGM Club@acb This sounds like the start of a really good track.
Tom Martinek@acb makes sense since music is patterns of math. It’s nice to be able to visualize it in this way.
ScriptOps@acb cool find -- wait, was the math discovered or was the music created? 🤔
\m/(-_-)\m/@acb @geospacedman of course it does when you select the right notes to represent each step.
¡Emancipemos a… se cambió!
DoKo@acb if you like such things and theories you can have a lock at this:
https://youtu.be/M48319x1Kg4
And the explanation video to it is here:
https://youtu.be/8x374slJGuo
