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