The wonderful world of fractals is far beyond the summary of this page. Fractals stretch on into almost infinite leaping beyond the very boundaries of time. I will now tell you about the history of the great compositional artists of audio fractals.

Many systems for generating music actually existed way before computers. One of the systems was Musikalisches Wurfelspiel, a system which used throws of a dice to randomly select measures from a large collection of small phrases. When patched together, these phrases would create musical pieces which could be preformed by human players.

The world first digital computer music was first generated in Australia by a programmer Geoff Hill. The computer that was used was the CSIRAC computer which was built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard.the first person to write computer music was Iannis Xenakis. He wrote programs in Fortan language that translated into scores by traditional instruments. An example would be ST/48 of 1962.

computers have also been used in an attempt to imitate the music of great composers of the past such as Mozart. A present exponent of this technique is David Cope. He wrote computer programs that analyze works of other composers to produce new works in a similar style. He has used this program with great effect with great composers such as Bach and Mozart and also within his own pieces, combining his own creations with that of the computer.

Max Matthews played an important role in computer generated music. He went to collage at the California Institute of Technology and studied engineering. There working hard in Bell Labs he made music. In 1957 he wrote the first widely used program for sound generation. After that, he became a leader in digital audio research, human computer interaction, and synthesis. Although he was not the first to make computer music he fathered many technological discoveries.

Xenakis was given birth to in Braila, Romania to Clearchos Xenakis and Fotini Pavlou. As a child was educated by governesses. Also he was sent to a boarding school when he was ten. Later he studied architecture and engineering. He was also in the Greek resistance in world war two. He was blinded from being shot by a British shell in the eye.                                                                                                                                                          

When 1947 came he fled to Paris with a false passport. Xenakis designed the Pavillon Philips in Brussels. Then Xenakis combined his mathematical teachings and his music experience to create his first major work He is particularly remembered for his pioneering electronics and computer music, and for the use of stochastic mathematical techniques in his compositions, including probability. So in1962 he published Musiques Formelles, a collection of essays based on his musical thoughts and composition strategy.

Hence, this concludes our essay. There is far more to learn beyond this paper so make your own fractals and see for yourself the amazing world of fractals. Who knows? You could be the next fractal genius of this generation.