Musical fractals

Be sure to check out my video on HARMONIC POLYRHYTHMS to better understand why this crazy illusion works!

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SMASH MOUTH FRACTAL

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Adam

[SophisticatedBanjo]

I'm an engineering major at my university, but also completing a minor in jazz through our music college, and you can't imagine how much this video turns me on.

[TheRealFlenuan]

Oh boy will memes get interesting now

"We are number one but it's made of All Star but it's made of Bring Me to Life but every time they say 'Wake me up' it's made of Darude Sandstorm"

[Addrum]

When you are a musician, a nerd and a memelord at the same time. You are amazing, Adam.

[nickwarren]

All Star by Smashmouth except every note is the audio from the entire Bee Movie

[FletcherPorter]

A fractal isn't strictly self-similarity; it's actually refers to infinitesimal roughness. The same way that when we study calculus we think that if we zoom in far enough on a certain curve, it will be a straight line, fractals allow us to say that the line will still be rough.

Because we can ignore the notion of self-similarity, you could conceivably "compose" a MIDI patch using the method from this video.

It would be really interesting if "All Star" by Smash Mouth composed of "All Star" by Smash Mouth composed of "All Star" by Smash Mouth would sound at all different.

Edit: typo

[Mathhead]

In order for it to be a fractal, it needs to sound like smash mouth again if you show it down more, ad infinitum. Basically, you need to figure out an algorithm that determines at each sample whether it's "on" or not, then generate the wave or midi file... ... Okay, I'll do it.

[ZeugmaP]

You sir, are the sharpest tool in the shed.

[phijoetruss]

Adam, you are brilliant! You have actually shown why music is a culture's point of view or 'take' on rhythm, which is the higher level fractal recursion of the fundamental of frequency, which is itself a fractal of the electromagnetic spectrum (ems). After all, everything in the cosmos exists within the 72 octaves of the ems and this explains why sound is simply a set of lower frequencies than light, which is just a lower octave than x-rays and so on. Vibrations are scale independent but have exactly the same shape. The musical note F# vibrates at 375 cycles per second, its colour octave is Red and it vibrates at 375 trillion cycles per second. Everything in Universe vibrates and is connected. We are not only star stuff, we still resonate with the energy of our explosive star parents and we live as a fractal of the quantum realm - connected to everything in the cosmos. Thank you.

[PlayTheMind]

*Smash Mouth*, in any reference frame, sounds just as sweet.
Thanks for proving that unequivocally, Adam.

[LiPolygon]

Alternate Title: All Star but all the notes are actually hundreds of All stars but sped up 1024 times.



(did I get that right?) Great video btw

[themennissvids]

You could totally go up in layers with this! Turn the All Star made of All Stars into All Star!

[Liloldliz]

i loved godel, escher and bach. it was the first resource that helped me realise that math is just a set of linguistic tools that we use to describe objects and their relationships, and that i wasn't bad at math. this was a really interesting and educational video, thank you for making it!

[elumbella]

Wow, that's the first time I've ever seen Gödel, Escher, Bach referenced somewhere. I read it some time ago and it sure is worth reading, although its length might seem discouraging. It brilliantly describes how mathematics, art (as done by M.C. Escher) and music are related and connected and inspire each other. Very mind blowing book!

[notinterested]

"soon we'll have fractalized the entire melody"

- Adam 'Professor Farnsworth' Neely.

[Koettnylle]

He gave that pitch a ratio. Pitches love ratios.

[RobCarrollMusic]

two all star videos in one week God damn we are blessed

[Tyubirocks]

I skipped 30 seconds in and thought that this was just the musical interpretation of the mendelbrot sequence and it was all star and I started to understand that memes were the fabric of existence.

[MaryjaneDaniel]

I discovered this by accident when one time I asked myself "I wonder what a 128th note triplet snare would sound like at 1000bpm..." and it created a pitched note. And then I realized I could change the pitch with tempo changes. Yay boredom!

[HelgeMoulding]

...stegophonia, the NSA's newest nightmare. What will people hide in their music!?! (And you thought back-masking was a terrible idea.) :-) Nicely done.

[anisometropie]

When a music channel starts being about maths fractals and Gödel Escher Bach, I know I’m subscribed to the right channel.