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Re: Impossible Music review



Here's a strange attractor app for anybody who's interested.  It's
code I found while digging around looking for some math/art apps.

http://www.thinginajar.com/bigtony/StrangeAttractor.exe

Click in the window to generate a new random pattern. The longer it
runs the more gets filled in.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Peters" <mp@mpeters.de>
> To: "Loopers Delight" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:15 PM
> Subject: RE: Impossible Music review
>
>
>>> Michal i think a lot of us would be also interested in the
>>> making proccess of this very interesting and delightful CD
>>> feel free to tell us!
>>
>> thanks Luis ... well I don't want to go into too much detail because it 
>is
>> OT ... no music loops involved, although ... when I think of it, the
>> process
>> of iterating through a mathematical formula is a loop !!!  it really 
>is. I
>> never thought of it this way.
>>
>> Anyway the formula involved here are a certain kind of attractor
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor)
>>
>> In the software that I wrote in the early nineties, the attractors are
>> drawn
>> graphically ... you begin by drawing an x,y point on the screen, then 
>you
>> put these x,y values into a formula which computes a new x,y pair (or
>> screen
>> position). You draw that new point and go through the formula again ...
>> thousands of times, each time drawing one pixel. The result is a 
>graphical
>> structure that often looks beautiful. My software creates shapes such as
>> this:
>> http://www.michaelpeters.de/hopgallery/images/miraplankton.jpg
>>
>> Of course while drawing the images, you can create midi signals simply 
>by
>> mapping the x,y position to pitch, and the color to velocity. Impossible
>> Music was created by adding midi output to the graphical program, and
>> plugging a digital piano into these mathematical structures. I added 
>some
>> midi filters, pitch rules, etc. The rest was lots of experimentation.
>>
>> -Michael
>> www.hyperfunction.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Tony