{"id":5484,"date":"2010-12-30T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2010-12-30T22:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:28:57","slug":"candies-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5484","title":{"rendered":"Candies all the way down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One problem with musical candy buttons is that sooner or later you run out of space to put all of the notes.  Or, if you&#8217;re hungry, you might run out of notes altogether.  Imagine you&#8217;re right in the middle of composing a delicious symphony in the key of Grape (I mean, um, in the key of B flat), and suddenly you run out candy buttons &#8212; or worse, you even run out places to <i>put<\/i> your candy buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Never fear, there is a way out.  In honor of the late, great Benoit Mandelbrot, I hereby introduce <b>fractal musical candy buttons<\/b>!  I don&#8217;t have an interactive Java applet ready for you to play with quite yet.  My eventual plan is to give you a way to zoom in and out, and otherwise navigate through the fractal score.<\/p>\n<p>But I can show you a visualization of how such a space might look.  Around the central tonic pitch (Peach), I&#8217;ve arranged half sized candy buttons representing the other six notes in the same key.   Around each of these are still smaller candy buttons, and so on, <i> ad infinitum<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Once I implement a way to let you zoom into this space, then there will be infinite melodies for you to explore, in an endless variety of colorful (and tasty) musical possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>But that will probably have to wait until next year. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/fractalcandy.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One problem with musical candy buttons is that sooner or later you run out of space to put all of the notes. Or, if you&#8217;re hungry, you might run out of notes altogether. Imagine you&#8217;re right in the middle of composing a delicious symphony in the key of Grape (I mean, um, in the key &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Candies all the way down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}