Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life in Many Dimensions

This page provides supplementary material for Chapter 7 entitled "The Nature of Fractal Music" by Harlan J. Brothers, from the book Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life in Many Dimensions (World Scientific Publishing, May 2015).

Here are audio renditions of the examples in Section 4 and Section 6:

Score from Figure 7.3

Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata in D Major"

Maurice Ravel's "Forlane" from Tombeau de Couperin

Here are the MIDI files used to extract the duration data for fractal analysis:

Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata in D Major"

Maurice Ravel's "Forlane" from Tombeau de Couperin (Ver. 1)

Maurice Ravel's "Forlane" from Tombeau de Couperin (Ver. 2)

Maurice Ravel's "Forlane" from Tombeau de Couperin (Ver. 3)