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So, I had this idea while listening to a movie about a composer, who I forgot his name, and I started mapping a fractal music "algorithm".  I decided to use a melodic theme of alternating half-steps and then from that theme, derive new themes deriving new themes.  I find it interesting that I got back to the original theme, so I added a new variation to the theme to keep it moving.  Each variation is derived from the main theme but sections.
C,C#,B,D,Bb,Eb,A,E,Ab,F,G,F#,F#.....  i.e. ([1]C-D),([2]Bb-E),([3]Ab-F#)...

The Harpsichordist is Julie Ives and she graciously accepted to play the piece!
Uses Soundclick's streaming player. Must click lo-fi or hi-fi to start playing.
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8209625 (http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8209625)

To whoever listens to my music, I thank you and would love to hear your thoughts.  Soundclick tracks all my links and this link has been recently used.   I would love to hear feedback.  Fractals and music is not new.  There's a whole self-similar attribute to Bach's music and many others who use themes similarly.

Interesting!
Somehow it reminds me of Robert Fripp. Go figure !
Anyway.
I would personally add a countermelody but then again I have a tendency to over complicate things and ruining them  :D
Listening to your other material there.
take care.

Thanks for listening.  I appreciate the thoughts.

Listening to the iteration is interesting, but "soul " is missing: Volume and note  shaping and connection. A good direction to explore further though. Realise that a regular bass line or drums is fractal too!

Thank you for your thoughts and listening.  I truly do appreciate it. ;D

It's hard to get soul into a harpsichord, including note shaping, etc.  I would agree that even if played on the piano, it may lack oomph.  But it was my first major fractal music piece, and now my new ones have yet to be performed.  Maybe soon.... 

A little bit about the harpsichord, it is a mechanical instrument and no amount of force on the keys will change the note.  That is why I chose it.  I wanted a machine-like effect, to create a sort of awkwardness.  Plus, I know the player is not familiar with harpsichord techniques, bless her heart for performing it, though.  I have never played on the harpsichord either so I am lucky she would do it for me.

Due to the fact that I am no longer in Music school, I doubt I could get a group to play any of my fractal pieces anymore.  I may do them electronically from now on, saves on money.

Bach is the best to explore soul in fractal music.  I would consider all of his fugues fractal.  In time I may find that soul Bach did.  It's something I plan to explore.

Bach's so amazing that some would say he was an alien. :alien:

The rhythm scale is already fractal consisting of full notes, quavers, semi quavers, demi quavers etc, and the pitch scale although called tones are actually proportional frequency ratios, thus they form a fractal scale. Music is entirely based on fractal scales, because humans are fractal beings and the product of iterative processes!

I know that the tone scales for instruments are actually "rough" or approximate as this is apparently more pleasing to the ear, so even tuning is fractal, and therein lies "soul"... that bending, twisting and slipping of the ratios to convey nonverbally what someone is thinking or feeling. Thus soul is fractal as is all communication between fractal peoples.

The fractal soul of a machine is often "ironed out", and we can hear the driving monotony of the entraining algorithm. Randomise the algorithms pitch accuracy, vibrato, and dynamics,and rhythm accuracy and see if you can get a bit of soul in there!

Yes indeed, new instruments new sounds, different delays and echoes...   A whole lot of ideas you give me.  Let's see if I can find the old sheet music. :D

Wow, awesome that you got a rl harpsichord player to perform it.  Sounds cool too

Thanks Sonofthort!

Have you ever thought about doing these pieces "Virtually"?
Using a recording/sequencing program could open up 1000s of possibilities.
I quit having bands and rehearsals the moment I found I could do this at home

Yes, German Fafian, I have actually.  I just need to get myself some money and buy a cool virtual synth.

There are plenty good free ones.
Visit KVR audio and search around.
I would recommend Green Oaks Crystal as an all time classic.

Thanks!  I would havee never known about that.  Now I just need to figure out how to use it in Cubase LE.

Could you be more specific?

The half steps are bifurcated, if that's what you mean.

Anyways it is more intricate then just that it's taking every third or so not of the theme and making a new theme with those notes not limited to an octave.

Also If you think the Notes were played wrong, then that could be, she did make some minor mistakes, but who cares.

This piece was purely methodical and very little was done to make it more musical, it was a fun experiment and I am currently working on a new piece.

Oh and the i.e. means those sets of notes, not specifically half steps.

The first theme literally was C4,B3,C#4,Bb3,D4,A3,Eb4,Ab3,E4,G3.  So one part goes C,C#,D,Eb,E and the other goes B,Bb,A,Ab,G.  This gave the idea of polytonality.

Then I would take every 3rd not to create a new theme using the original theme looped until I used all the notes, C,Bb,Eb,G,C#,A,E,B,D,Ab.

I did this multiple times while adding the original theme to it, which made the theme longer.