Fractal Patterns in Music

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Fractal Patterns in Music
المؤلفون: McDonough, John, Herczyński, Andrzej
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Computer Science
Nonlinear Sciences
مصطلحات موضوعية: Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons, Computer Science - Sound, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
الوصف: If our aesthetic preferences are affected by fractal geometry of nature, scaling regularities would be expected to appear in all art forms, including music. While a variety of statistical tools have been proposed to analyze time series in sound, no consensus has as yet emerged regarding the most meaningful measure of complexity in music, or how to discern fractal patterns in compositions in the first place. Here we offer a new approach based on self-similarity of the melodic lines recurring at various temporal scales. In contrast to the statistical analyses advanced in recent literature, the proposed method does not depend on averaging within time-windows and is distinctively local. The corresponding definition of the fractal dimension is based on the temporal scaling hierarchy and depends on the tonal contours of the musical motifs. The new concepts are tested on musical 'renditions' of the Cantor Set and Koch Curve, and then applied to a number of carefully selected masterful compositions spanning five centuries of music making.
Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2023.113315
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12497
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2212.12497
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.chaos.2023.113315