Fractal music: the mathematics behind 'techno' music.

From: Australian Mathematics Teacher | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Padula, Janice | Copyright information

Have you ever been driven mad by your students' playing electronic music loudly? Here's how to channel their passion. Interest them with a description of the mathematics employed in its creation. This article describes sound waves, their basis in the sine curve, Fourier's theorem of infinite series, the fractal equation and its application to the composition of music, together with algorithms (such as those employed by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in his discovery of chaos theory) t...

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