Diana Dabby

Hi!
This is interesting stuff!
I couldn't find a webpage by her, but the most recent notice about her
is at: http://www.ece.uci.edu/colloquia/00w.html#Dabby
And there is a article about her work, complete with examples in MP3
format at:
http://www.medienobservationen.uni-muenchen.de/FRAKTAL/fraktal.html
Unfortunately the article is in German. Is there a translator in the
house?

John A. deLaubenfels wrote:

> (Oops!! Sent this first to the tuning list by mistake! Oh well,
> they'll figure it out...)

John Starrett wrote:
> >Believe it or not, I actually did impress a beautiful woman with
> >tuning math the other day!
>
> You rogue! She loved it when you used the words "two to the POWER",
> eh?
>
> [John S:]
> >On another note, I attend the Dynamics Days conference every year that
> >I can, and it is interesting (but not so surprising) that in the
> >poster sessions if an exhibit has any musical or sound content, a big
> >crowd of physicists and mathematicians will gather round. Diana Dabby
> >is always a big draw with her classical "continuation" algorithms.
> >She builds an attractor for a composers style and lets her algorithm
> >complete a piece from some arbitrary point. It is surprisingly
> >effective.
>
> That's very interesting - does she have a web page, do you know?
--
Bye for now

Allan Myhara
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

--- In harmonic_entropy@egroups.com, Allan Myhara <amyhara@m...>
wrote:
> Hi!
> This is interesting stuff!

> http://www.medienobservationen.uni-muenchen.de/FRAKTAL/fraktal.html
> Unfortunately the article is in German. Is there a translator in the
> house?
>

Well... it is a very interesting article... but I only have time to
do the last paragraph... but it 'sums up" the attitude of the writer:

Im letzten Beispiel sieht man, daß die eigentliche fraktale Musik
nur als Anregung dient. Sie ist Ideengeber. Ich glaube, daß einen
fraktale Musik an sich zwar erstaunlich komplex ist, aber von dem
kreativen Schaffensprozeß eines Menschen noch entfernt ist. Aber
sie kann interessante Anstöße für eigene Kompositionen geben.
Die Musik aus dem Algorithmus erhebt für sich keinen Anspruch auf
Kunst, die Frage ist aber, was wir in dieser Musik sehen und sehen
können.

My "rough" (ahem) translation:

In the final analysis true Fractal music is only a "stimulant." It
is an "idea-giver..." I believe that a Fractal music in itself is
extremely complex and we are a bit far from the true creative
assembly-process using it just as it is... However, it can give
interesting "kick offs" for true compositions. Music composed
through algorithms is not in itself true art, but the question is
more what *WE* see in the patterns of such music!
__________ ___ __ __
Joseph Pehrson