So, using the Golden Proportion as a formal organizing element in your work is a way of making sure the “aesthetic antennae” is tuned properly?
Exactly! What better formal organizing element could an artist find than a form that embodies the fractal structure of nature? Artists have known about the Golden Proportion for a long time, and it has been used extensively throughout history. We do not think about it, but what we consider musical is related to whether or not the melodic note content has a fractal structure. When people are played computer generated sound pitches that are random, it is rarely considered music. When the computer selects pitches using a fractal selection algorithm, the notes are then perceived as “music.
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