Title: Self-Similar Artist: Sam Lilburn
Description: Self-similar is a Supercollider composition that explores using self-similar structures, or fractals, as the basis for controlling musical parameters and sequences.
Inspirations: This piece is heavily inspired by the work of Tom Johnson, and the mathematics of Mandelbrot.
Key Parameters:
This composition features at its core, a set of self-similar number sequences.
Mathematical formulas are run over a specified number of iterations, which generate strings of numbers. These strings are then stored as arrays, which are used to control synthesiser and sample playback parameters.
Each parameter can use the same structure at different ‘zoom’ factors, across each iteration.
The overall composition features multiple fractals spread across its multiple layers. If you zoom in on the layers of the song, you find the same fractal present in the songs macro-structure and its micro-structure.
The main melodic motif is layered multiple times, at different zoom factors across time. The sound is dense, vast and rich in texture – creating a strange experience where the finite world meets with the infinite.
The final piece is an amalgamation of a lot of research and experimentation with representing fractals in numerical sequences and utilising those sequences in creative ways, for the purpose of exploring questions of consciousness.
This is a piece which is self-conscious through constant self-reference. It is, Self-Similar.
email samillburn@hotmail.com if you want the code
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