FRACTALS IN MUSIC - Exploration & Experiment 

Thanks, glad you liked it :)

I remember this! Hypnotic game :o

I'm happy you like it :)

That's what it came to my mind too. Then when were fractals (or what we call them) discovered?

Seen! Gosh I have to try this. Not sure I get it all yet, I have to try to understand better

;) With your video you've inspired me to put effects into live feedback loops. As a thank you I'll share with you and your community an easy starting point. If you'd make a video about it, I'd be delighted to see it 😊. Return track: (part of the feedback loop) Xynth Audio Rezonator. Then add gulfoss live in the loop and shinechilla in parallel. Excite shinechilla rhythmically with spline EQ. Maybe add other effects here Delay the return track to taste. Route the output of the return track to the audio track -> Audio track: (part of the feedback loop) First: sausagefattener (or leave it be, for other spectral dynamics). Second: freeclip (oversampling influences achievable harmonics by increasing latency when using smaller chains in more advanced loops) Third: Kilohearts snapheap with disperser set to 6kHz with or without keytracking use envelope follower to modulate amount & pinch for that liquid effect Fourth: an EQ for excitation manipulation (attenuate /-10 db !!!!!!) Fifth: Gatekeeper Then send to the return track (feedback is scary, start with super low levels!! I really cannot stress this point enough 😅😅. Route to sends only Audio track: -> Input from last audio track. This is the output track. Add the feedback protection rack (see below). Add the same gatekeeper (I've modified the 'plinkton' preset) and a reverb and you're all set! Important for feedback protection: drive.google.com/file/d/1RszN0rS4ye_5_UArsSmOg22122hkVTlg/view?usp=sharing Add it to the output audio track. You'll want to try to adjust the parameters of first gullfoss soloed and then after activate rezonator and increase the wet signal. After that, activate shinechilla. You can make knob- or mouse-gestures with resonant eq shapes in the feedback audio track (the first one). You can even let the longer feedback loop described above branch out from a shorter one that are tuned to the tonic or other notes within the scale. Higher notes will max your CPU quickly, because lower buffer sizes are required. Other than that, the sky is the limit! I wanna see AI try and fail at recreating humans playing timbral fractals in a live setup. I highly doubt it will ever beat a human feeling-wise. Let the fractal revolution begin

Maybe one day I'll make a video about all this myself

Thanks a lot!

Thanks :)

Haha thanks ^^ and you're welcome

Thanks mate!

Oh yes, please do! :)

Thanks :)

I imagine there might be a way to do that with max for live 🤔 but I never studied it enough though

I originally wanted to keep the part where everything speed up progressively until it becomes a tone. But there was 2 things that bothered me : - the transition was very long. It took a long time to really hear things speed up progressively, even if that was speeding up pretty fast - this part was chaotic and not very musical. So in the middle of a song to make a big break, why not, but for a musical example like this, I didn't want it to be mostly unmusical noise :/ The last issue is that I ran into the limitations of my software. You can't speed up a sound as much as I wanted, so I had to use tricks. All in all I decided to shorten this part as it was already enough to get the idea across. From there, anyone can do their own experimentation with these concepts ^^

Let's do it together, I'm right now looking for somebody to code a plugin that can do video/image resynthesis in a circle shaped area, so the line, that is collecting brightness and color information moves like the hand of a clock. So basically my take on it is doing image resynthesis on fractal zooms. I think this will serve you with loads of content for rhythmic risers, through a simple tweak and record workflow.

I had plans to make a video about generative AI in music and interview someone who develop such AI, but for now it is lost in the long list of videos I'm planning to make

Haha, indeed ^^" there's was a song by infected mushroom with this kind of trick. I think it was on the album army of mushrooms

I posted too soon 😳 you, sir, are a right worthy madman

It has some similarities :) though, even if some fractal patterns can be found in Bach's music, the principle of a fugue is different. In a fugue, the melody is played by a voice and is then repeated by another voice, then it's repeated by another voice, etc... While this happens, other voices play one or several other counter-melodies. It is not really the same melody sped up or slowed down.

@@Woochia Thank you so much. I'm really looking forward to more of your brainstorming research topics. Regards India

I'm in the process of retaking old uncomplete tracks like this to turn them into finished tracks. Unfortunately, this song didn't make the selection :/

My guy, even just posting this so I can listen to it on repeat would be very nice of you.@@Woochia

What do you mean by this ? The software ? That's Ableton Live

The music was all made in Ableton Live

I've heard about it but never read it. I'll probably add it to my book list when I find it :)

@@Woochia It's a classic. :)

Hi, I’m interested :) .

@@patobarajas7207 Hi, I kinda lost track of the idea, but as I was experimenting and doing some research I came across a MAX for live device from Dillon Bastan that uses fractal data to sculpt sounds. It is called "fractal filters" and it is free to download on his website. It's not exactly what I imagined and I didn't test it yet, because I'm not very familiar with using Ableton Live. Anyways, here's a link to a video with explanations on how it works and what it does: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IHHTa_4es8k.html

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Hi, I'd be very interested to see these ideas, but I don't really have plans to make more fractal-focused content. If you can share some of your ideas here, that would be great, or if you make a video about it, I'd be willing to see that.

he's not a native speaker of english I reckon

He's french g chill out