"East of Mira"

("A Suite of Fractals", Op. 3 No. 1)

Copyright © 1998 by Fred Nachbaur

This piece can be best described as "ambience" music. It is also truly electronic, being an
example of "Computer Assisted Composition (CAC), and as such is my only piece to date for which
the midi file is the end in itself. Other pieces are in the works to form a complete suite of
fractal tunes.

The original sequence of notes was generated by "The Well-Tempered Fractal" (a free program,
available at http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/people/schulz/fmusic/wtf/), which converts the
x and y positions of the meanderings of an orbit fractal into textual midi output. From there I
converted it to standard midi, imported into Cubasis for editing, exported back to midi, and
imported to NoteWorthy Composer for final editing and scoring in NWC format, then exported back
to a midi file.

"East of Mira" uses an eastern scale (phrygian sharp 3) to map two discrete sections of the
"Mira" fractal (hence the name). Since the final performance is, indeed, fully electronic, an
MPEG file of output from my "Audiotrix" Yamaha XG sound card is also provided for your listening
enjoyment (or, at least, interest).

Fred Nachbaur