FractalSynth

This is a software music tool built ground-up in Java. Built around granular synthesis techniques and polar traversals of the Mandelbrot set, this was originally designed as a means of composing my capstone piece for my Music Composition minor at NCSU which was featured in the iPearl Immersion Theater in Hunt Library. I continued streamlining and adding features as my needs evolved alongside experimentation with new musical ideas.

Code on GitHub

Hlusta Á Flótta

Created by using fractal traversals as a probability distribution for the placement of grains (see granular synthesis) on the frequency and time axes. Several tracks with different parameters are layered together.

S_Test

The following piece was created from an improvised piano recording I made and then subjected to what I would describe as "spectral shearing" (think shearing forces). The sound is divided into several frequency bands and then each is individually time-warped using a fractal traversal as input.