English
Related papers

Related papers: Fractals in Africanist Music

200 papers

A paradigmatic nonhyperbolic dynamical system exhibiting deterministic diffusion is the smooth nonlinear climbing sine map. We find that this map generates fractal hierarchies of normal and anomalous diffusive regions as functions of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Korabel , R. Klages

Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajectories remains unclear. We introduce a novel computational…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Harin Lee , Rainer Polak , Manuel Anglada-Tort , Marc Schönwiesner , Minsu Park , Nori Jacoby

We study the (newtonian) gravitational force distribution arising from a fractal set of sources. We show that, in the case of real structures in finite samples, an important role is played by morphological properties and finite size…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Gabrielli , F. Sylos Labini , S. Pellegrini

We discuss the appearance of topological structures from the spontaneous breaking of $E_6$ to the Standard Model via its maximal subgroup $SO(10) \times U(1)_\psi$. They include dumbbells, metastable strings, as well as domain walls bounded…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Rinku Maji , Qaisar Shafi , Amit Tiwari

We study fractal measures on Euclidean space through the dynamics of "zooming in" on typical points. The resulting family of measures (the "scenery"), can be interpreted as an orbit in an appropriate dynamical system which often…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-31 Michael Hochman

Resonant transport occurs when there is a matching of frequencies across some spatial medium, increasing the efficiency of shuttling particles from one reservoir to another. We demonstrate that in a periodically driven, many--body titled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-31 Bitan De , Gabriela Wójtowicz , Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak , Jakub Zakrzewski

Fracture processes in heterogeneous materials comprise a large number of disordered spatial degrees of freedom, representing the dynamical state of a sample over the entire domain of interest. This complexity is usually modeled directly,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-25 Yon Visell , Guillaume Millet

Music sampling is a common practice among hip-hop and electronic producers that has played a critical role in the development of particular subgenres. Artists preferentially sample drum breaks, and previous studies have suggested that these…

Applications · Statistics 2019-03-06 Mason Youngblood

Music Structure Analysis is an open research task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In the past, there have been several works that attempt to segment music into the audio and symbolic domains, however, the identification and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Sonia Rubio Llamas , Jose R. Beltran

We investigate the contentions that Jackson Pollock's drip paintings are fractals produced by the artist's Levy distributed motion and that fractal analysis may be used to authenticate works of uncertain provenance[1-5]. We find that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

Starting from a field theory containing classical vortex solutions, we obtain an effective string theory of these vortices as a path integral over the two transverse degrees of freedom of the string. We carry out a semiclassical expansion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 M. Baker , R. Steinke

The aim of these lectures is to give an introduction to several topics which lie at the intersection of string theory, gravity theory and gravity phenomenology. One successively reviews: (i) the "membrane" approach to the dissipative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-29 Thibault Damour , Marc Lilley

Electron transport through amorphous monatomic metallic structures generated earlier by molecular dynamics simulations is studied numerically. The interference of electronic trajectories backscattered by the structural disorder probes the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Kozub , C. Oligschleger

The scope of the paper is a theoretical analysis of the dynamical system, the model of which was reduced to Weierstrasse function. A fractal structure of the trajectory was proved and the entropy of the system information designated.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marek Berezowski

Experiments on fracture surface morphologies offer increasing amounts of data that can be analyzed using methods of statistical physics. One finds scaling exponents associated with correlation and structure functions, indicating a rich…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Bouchbinder , Itamar Procaccia , Shani Sela

Fractal surfaces ('patchwork quilts') are shown to arise under most general circumstances involving simple bitwise operations between real numbers. A theory is presented for all deterministic bitwise operations on a finite alphabet. It is…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

In this work we have investigated the mechanical properties and fracture patterns of some graphene nanowiggles (GNWs). Graphene nanoribbons are finite graphene segments with a large aspect ratio, while GNWs are nonaligned periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 R. A. Bizao , T. Botari , D. S. Galvao

We measure the fractal dimension of an African plant that is widely cultivated as ornamental, the Asparagus plumosus. This plant presents self-similarity, remarkable in at least two different scalings. In the following, we present the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Castrejon-Pita , A. Sarmiento Galan , R. Castrejon-Garcia

This paper focuses on the modeling of musical melodies as networks. Notes of a melody can be treated as nodes of a network. Connections are created whenever notes are played in sequence. We analyze some main tracks coming from different…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Stefano Ferretti

The electromagnetic radiation of electrons in the corrugated graphene in the presence of the transport electric current in the ballistic regime is studied. Radiation of the similar nature can be observed in undulator and wiggler. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Sergey A. Ktitorov , Ruslan I. Mukhamadiarov