"Albrecht appears to follow the mapping path, picking interesting looking fractal images and, using his special algorythms, overlays, manipulates, massages and shifts to produce his trademark hypnotic, meditative and comfortable sound...almost trance inducing. Far from the chaotic images that are used for input, in my opinion. I would love to hear some discussion as to whether sounds mapped from a fractal image are, in themselves, fractal or not. Are they any different from the sounds produced by the same manipulations of non-fractal images with some variety in them? Would one be able to say with any certainty in a blind test which sounds came from the fractal image and which from the non-fractal image? Albrecht and I have had our own discussions about this, but I would love to get input from others."
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Bill, I have to reply to this myself, because there is some misunderstanding.
The used image does not make it Fractal Music. I use fractals because they quite often have
a visible mathematical structure and order both in  relation to the nature of the image and
the distribution of the colors. No photo or painting has that quality with one exception: Some abstract paintings look like fractals and some of my images look like paintings.
If you take a normal image, say the desktop background it will sound dull and disapointing
as this quality is missing.
What makes it Fractal Music is the IFS Fractal used for scanning. There are many to choose from,
but they all have a strict fractal mathematical order of dots and they are responsible
for the term Fractal Music - in connection ith the basic image.  if I use the same image together with
different IFS fractals it will generate completely different music - rhythm and notes.
The basic image supplies the input.
You may have a different opinion regarding my "fractal rhythm" which uses the smallest possible
parts of a note to generate my shifting musical story which never repeats.
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Hope, this makes it clear.
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Albrecht