Heya people - very interesting thread!!!
While I am a very musical person - the mathematics part is WAY beyond me - the inherent "patterns" and resonance in music is something i feel rather than logically understand.
Anyway seeing as you guys are obviously very mathematically inclined i wanted to share these links on Benoit Mendelbrot - his ideas on the "geometry of chaos" and visual representations of this theory of the patterns created when you use zero as a starting point.
You are probably all very familiar with all this already - i remember reading about this guy about 15 years ago and while the numbers didnt "speak" to me the patterns and beauty of the repetition of apparent randomness just blew me away!!
I have no idea if these concepts are in any way related but after reading "The Coral Castle" it occured to me that maybe old Ed had discovered a way to harness "randomness" rather than looking along the lines of a rigid 3 dimensional law??
Enjoy!!!
http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/fractal.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...30356432628677