A few days ago I found some info about 'fractal music' and 'fractal sounds' somewhere on the internet (can't recall where, I'm sorry), which inspired me to try some of this stuff myself. Maybe I don't understand enough about the philosophy of fractal sound/music, or am I just trying the wrong things.

Anyway, my results are arguable, and I think it sounds aaaawful. (You might as well enjoy listening to the noise generator), so this part of the experiment failed.

When things don't sound good, I usually turn of the amplifier, and switch on the oscilloscope too just enjoy the way sounds look. The attached patch is not ment for listening, but one to look at; it's a julia fractal explorer.

The backgrounds are a bit mathematic : The patch iterates a complex variable with z=z*z+c, and displays the found values on the scope. When the value 'explodes' out of bounds, it's reset to the starting value. This way the julia set for any given 'c' can be viewed.

The real and imaginary parts of C can be set with knobs 2 and 5, and finetuned with 3 and 6.

(for those interested, I have a patch that generates a vague silhouette of the complete mandelbrot... If you already know what it looks like, you can see it)

Anyway, this is again a patch of arguable usability. I just posted it to show again the enormous power of this strange synth !!

This is quite cool, Ico, and I wish I had time to explore its implications. Pitch way down, and give it some keyboard tracking if you like, and it starts to sound promising. Then use it as a modulation source, or sample and hold it to control pitch.