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Comment on Math as Art: Part 4 “Strange Attractors” by sarahjritch

sarahjritch — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:27:11 +0000

Sorry to anyone who just tried to watch the video of Strange Attractors…web admin fail. Fixed now..enjoy!

Comment on Math as Art: Part 2 by Peter Fitzgibbons

Peter Fitzgibbons — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:29:22 +0000

Ah, yes, Primes. There has been much work around graphing primes and variations, and a bit of music work as well. This is so cool, and I could totally lose myself in researching and learning this stuff.

Hope to hear more about your work!

Comment on Math as Art: Part 2 by sarahjritch

sarahjritch — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:05:51 +0000

Hi Peter! You have great suggestions…I’m going to think about that! I have another piece coming up that I am working on….thinking Primes might be fun. Oh, and the Julia set is definitely a good one as well.

Comment on Math as Art: Part 2 by Peter Fitzgibbons

Peter Fitzgibbons — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:53:22 +0000

HI Sarah,

Have you considered the colored mandelbrot set? Since the graph (when mapped to X,Y) exists on the Real numbers within the disc r=2, with the z-axis representing the values of the polynomial Pc, coloration maps the relative z-order values in ranges to various RGB colors.
I can see this tonally being mapped either specifically to scale ABCD…. , or maybe also mapped to Hz frequencies. Maybe the “lake” of outlying values (outside the graph), and the “center” (inside the graph) being boundaries on the frequency range. It might be possible to derive a polynomial function on z : H(z) that defines the frequency for each value, maybe ranged by rounding?
In thinking about this, since a melody is linear temporally, there needs to be a way to “linearize” in time the z-values… so maybe an iteration across the X,Y range of the graph, scanning across the graph like television electron-rays, with each iteration occupying a time-slice, T milliseconds (100ms, 200ms, other?).

There are several variations of this on google search: mandelbrot set music

In general, this is really really cool! This could lead to a whole album of chaos-based music : Mandelbrot, Julia, etc.

Comment on Math as Art: Part 1 by math as art: part 2 « Sarah J Ritch

math as art: part 2 « Sarah J Ritch — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:51:04 +0000

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Comment on ESPLORAZIONI: Featuring work of Aaron Einbond by Aaron Einbond

Aaron Einbond — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:28:21 +0000

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Comment on End the Silence by Tom Fahy

Tom Fahy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:19:40 +0000

“Duo for Solo Cello” – a thoroughly engaging composition: thoughtful, sometimes brooding, sometimes explicitly sorrowful, always rife with a radically divergent compositional style akin to Sara Galán … This is the type of exemplary work for which Creative Commons Netaudio releases could one day also be known, as opposed to the too-narrow subset of genres with which CC has become associated (e.g. IDM, techno, glitch, ad nauseum…).

Comment on Sounds by Leaving and Returning to Las Vegas | Acts of Silence

Leaving and Returning to Las Vegas | Acts of Silence — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:15:52 +0000

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Comment on Upcoming Events by Scratch! « Sarah J Ritch

Scratch! « Sarah J Ritch — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:43:10 +0000

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Comment on Absence of Wax: are NetLabels the new thing? by @diffuser.net (@adiffuser)

@diffuser.net (@adiffuser) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:36:25 +0000

Hi,
Netlabels are a very good thing for music. I Think you know many of them are using Creative Commons licences, which allow people to share (and even sometimes modify) the music : http://creativecommons.org/
There are tons of netlabels like Absence of Wax or the excellent blocSonic . You can have an idea by visiting the two websites of David Nemeth :
- Acts of Silence (http://www.actsofsilence.com/) and its free nelabels list (http://www.actsofsilence.com/netlabels/)
- and his new project called The Easy Pace (http://www.theeasypace.com/) where he selects new releases of Creative Commons Music

… but you can share your music by yourself with platforms like Bandcamp our Soundcloud where you can also choose Creative Commons licences for your sounds. Check out this nice release of Pantree Owl for example : http://pantreeowl.bandcamp.com/

Welcome in this world where art is travelling…

Greetings from France

Toine, from http://www.adiffuser.net website, which deals with free (like in free speach) artists and works…