Re: listening to fractals/chaos

Paul,
Here's one I was familiar with on the net ( primes as music):
http://primes.utm.edu/programs/music/listen/page5.html

Dr. Edgar has talked about using Systems / Turtle fractals
as music, but they aren't mostly chaotic enough to be
interesting to our sophisticated ears.
You stuff turns out pretty good.
Sometimes you just get noise...
I've done some stuff in Mathematica too.

The point seems to be that the information that looks like chaos to our eyes, has information that our ears interpret very differently!
Not only are there fractals everywhere,
there is chaos right beside it.
I think bird songs are one of the best examples
of patterns in sound that are natural and interesting to the ear.
From the jungle to the factory we are surrounded with
sounds that our ears try to make sense of.

Like I said... there is a group called "The Chaos", but none called "The Fractals", ha, ha...
Paul Bourke wrote:

I've been dabbling with the sonification of various systems such as pulsars, cosmological simulatiuons, and fractals/chaos systems.
There are some examples at the following links
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/lorenz/
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/oneness/
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/qseries/
Or if you have iTunes (and/or an ipod or even better, an idod video) you can go to the Apple ITunes Music Store and search for "VisTunes" where you will find some podcasts of the same material. I'm not claiming that these are particularly "attractive", just my experiments so far. ps: the ITunes vodcast
of the Lorenz attractor may not be there for another day or two. 
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