| A quick websearch will reveal many putative examples of fractal music. |
| Unhappily, in many of these the notion of fractality is not treated with sufficient understanding of properties necessary to say something is fractal. |
| Although in 2004 we could devote an entire lab to such examples (and we make the gloomy prediction that by 2010 we could fill a whole book), here we content ourselves to consider three classes of examples. |
| Transliteration: any methodical processing of any fractal image produces fractal music. |
| All Iteration: iterative processes often generate fractals, so any music generated by any iterative process is fractal. |
| Limited Self-Similarity: the musical equivalent of the Russian dolls error. |
| The web is filled with great wonders. Starting from the NASA website in about four mouse clicks I got here. |
| By now the web has grown to over 3 billion sites. |
| Almost any topic you care to study can be found on one, more likely many, websites. |
| As part of their work, or hobbies, or business, millions of people have posted information, the results of their investigations or imaginations, on the web. |
| This is a source of information unparalleled in human history. |
| But also it is the wild west, unreviewed, presenting any amount of nonsense. |
| Be very careful about what you believe. |
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