[sdiy] Spiral-Wave Chaos (was arpeggiator)

[Ian Fritz]

At 02:15 PM 6/4/05, KHeck73 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 6/3/2005 4:51:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
>MAMETZGER at partners.org writes:
>Ian,
>That sound file is so cool.
>Mike
>
>..
>At about 1minute 18 seconds into this, I started to think this patch was 
>trying to communicate something important to me. It's as if intelligence 
>is developing, then it backs down to the simple sequence again. Not unlike 
>the course of some conversations I've had with people at a really good 
>party  ;).
>
>-Karl.

Karl --

Thanks for the note.  I'm always surprised at how many of my chaos/synth 
patches have so much of a sort of "natural" feeling -- "natural" in the 
literal sense of something you would hear in nature.

Actually, part of the inspiration for starting these experiments was a 
visit to Yellowstone park a few years ago.  I spent about an hour walking 
around the different fumeroles listening carefully to their individual 
sounds.  It occured to me that I must be hearing chaotic attractors, since 
the sounds are all individually unique, yet highly irregular.

   Ian