Just as there are graphical representations of fractals, there are also musical representations of fractals. Music and mathematics always have had a close relationship since the times of Pythagorus and his discoveries of harmony and scales. Today, composers and computer scientists alike employ fractals in an attempt to better understand music through creative inspiration since self-similarity is a common link between many types of music and many types of fractals.
Fractal music is created through the use of fractal algorithms.
Composers use the idea of mapping the numeric value of each pixel of the fractal image sequentially to a set of pitches. Therefore, fractal music is actually music created by fractal processes where a common musical pattern repeats itself over and over again. Fractals have become a new instrument on which to make music as the field of fractal music is rapidly developing. There are many fractal music programs on the World Wide Web that can generate various sorts of fractal music. Listen to one or more of them and record observations.