Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Sound or Music
  • Introduction
  • Music: Logical or Physical?
    • Physical and Psychological Effects of Music
    • Differentiating between Music and Sound
    • The Dichotomy
  • Techniques - Ways to Create Form
    • Tonality
    • Serialism
    • Tonality of Atonality
  • Unity of Material and Organization
    • Sound -- Recapitulation
    • Homogeneity of Music
    • Unity of Perception
  • Summary and Conclusion
• What is Self-similarity?
  • Introduction
  • What is Chaos?
  • Relationship Between Chaos and Self-similarity
  • Fractional Dimensions
  • Self-referentiality
• Self-similarity in Sound and Music
  • Introduction
  • The Shepard Tone
    • Recreated Results
    • Conclusions and Speculations
  • The Well-tempered Scale
  • The Ubiquitous 1/f Noise
    • What Is 1/f Noise
    • Self-similarity of 1 / f Noise
    • Observed 1/f Noises
    • 1 / f in Music
    • Recreated Results
    • Conclusions
• Self-similar Synthesis
  • Introduction
  • Synthesis Method
    • The Synthesis Paradigm
    • The Synthesis Language
  • Examples and Results
    • Two Simple Examples
    • Self-contained Examples
    • Layered Examples
    • Rhythm Examples
  • Future Development
• Summary, Conclusions and Speculations
  • Technical Issues
  • Musical Issues
  • Future Work
  • Perceptual Issues
• The Slope of Correlated Music
• Descriptions of the Audio Examples
• Morphosis
• Bibliography