Mandel-Bach Journey: A Marriage of Musical and Visual Fractals
Harlan J. Brothers

Proceedings of Bridges 2010: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 475–478
Short Papers

Abstract

More than two centuries separate the writing of The Art of Fugue, by Johann Sebastian Bach, and the printing of the first graphical representation of the Mandelbrot set. Here we examine Bach’s Contrapunctus IX from a fractal perspective and listen as it accompanies a zoom into the Mandelbrot set.

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