First, an answer already in our archives:Dr. Melissa says: First off, I suggest that you get your hands on this book: _Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics_, by Edward Rothstein. It is full of interesting information, is fairly easy to understand without assuming too much math knowledge, and (if I recall correctly) has a nice bibliography that you could use to track down more info. For material on the Web, I did a search of the Math Forum site and came up with several items. This one looks the most promising:------------------------- Fractal Music Project http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:80/people/schulz/fmusic/ New field of music research. "Fractal music is a result of a recursive process where an algorithm is applied multiple times to process its previous output. In wider perspective all musical forms, both in micro and macro level can be modelled with this process. Fractals provide extremely interesting musical results." Mailing list; Fractal Jazz; papers on fractal music and related topics; software; short examples of fractal music. ------------------------- You might also find something useful in "Leonardo," a journal published by the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology. It's on the Web at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html Hope this helps you out, and good luck with your project!----------------------------------------------------------------------