Computer Music

In 1992, I carried out an undergraduate research project supported by the Brazilian research agency FAPESP. In that project I studied "The application of Fractal Geometry in Musical Analysis and Composition". Here you can find two papers written in Portuguese and some little musical pieces composed at that time. If you are really interested on this subject but don't read Portuguese, then you can either learn Portuguese :-) or download one of the following files and look at the bibliography (the large file has much more references).

• Música, Computadores e Fractais. Prize for Best Article in Humanities in the 5th UNESP Congress in Undergraduate Research (1992).
• Música, Computadores e Fractais II (Technical Report, 1992)
• Pal (701 Kb experimental song)
• Pa4X (875 Kb experimental song)
• Determinística I (1.7 Mb experimental song)
  

You can also find a little description of one of my fractal pieces with Vosaic-links to its movements.

Publications:

• Fabio Kon and Fernando Iazzetta. "La música en Internet: ¿un sueño o una realidad (virtual)?" in Música y Nuevas Tecnologias - Perspectivas para el Siglo XXI, pp. 103-118. Eduardo Reck Miranda (editor). Editora ACC L'Angelot. Barcelona, Spain. October, 1999. ( ERRATA ).
• Fernando Iazzetta and Fabio Kon. Downloading Musical Signs. Proceedings of Sign-Music-Society. Vienna, Austria. March, 1999. (Zipped PDF)
  
• Fabio Kon and Fernando Iazzetta. Internet Music: Dream or (virtual) Reality. Proceedings of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. August, 1998. (Zipped PDF)
  
• Fernando Iazzetta and Fabio Kon. A Música Efêmera da Internet. In Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Music (ANPOM'98), pp. 35-40. Campinas, Brazil. August, 1998. (Zipped PDF)
  
• Silva, Flavio S. C. and Kon, Fabio. A Fuzzy Categorial Grammar for the Harmonization of Melodies, book chapter in Fuzzy Information Engineering: A Guided Tour of Applications, Didier Dubois (editor), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997, pp 457-66.
• Silva, Flavio S. C. and Kon, Fabio. Categorial Grammar and Harmonic Analysis, in the Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Canela, July, 1995. Also Technical Report RT-MAC-9505a, Department of Computer Science - IME/USP, 1995.

• Silva, Flavio S. C. and Kon, Fabio. Stylistic Musical Choices Via Fuzzy Preference Rules, in the Proceedings of the Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association, São Paulo, July, 1995. Also Technical Report RT-MAC-9505b, Department of Computer Science - IME/USP, 1995.

• Iazzetta, Fernando H. and Kon, Fabio. Maxannealing: A Tool for Algorithmic Compostion Based on Simulated Annealing, in the Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Canela, July, 1995.
• Iazzetta, Fernando H. and Kon, Fabio. A Detailed Description of MaxAnnealing, Technical Report RT-MAC-9511, Department of Computer Science - IME/USP, 1995.