Software

Cellular Automata Music Generator (CAMUS) ~ v2.0 ~ Win9x/Me ~ 363 Kb

author: Glasgow University Centre for Music Technology, Tim Conrardy.
Home page: http://tamw.atari-users.net/camus.htm
CAMUS is based on a program originally created by Eduardo Reck Miranda in 1991 for the Atari computer. This Win9x version uses the cellular automata algorithm to generate musical notes using two parallel windows: the Game of Life, and the Demon Cyclic Space.
Last revision: 1997.

Fractal Harmonies ~ v1.1 ~ Win9x/Me/NT/2000 ~ 12.9 Mb

author: Stefanie Blain and Jason Montojo
Home page: http://www.bmeijer.com/try_this/fractal_harmonies/
Fractal Harmonies combines image creation with music composition in a very easy way. It can compose musical tunes from Mandelbrot and Julia sets fractals. Comes with several tools and options to control your compositions. Both the melody and the image can be saved. Originally it could be found here or here, but it seems it's no longer available.
Last revision: 15 March 2000.

	Fractal Music ~ v1.9 ~ Win9x/Me ~ 1.75 Mb
	author: David H. Singer Home page: http://www.fractal-vibes.com/fm/ The Fractal Music combines Lindenmayer System fractals with Cellular Automata to compose 5-voice fractal music. You can select note durational patterns, scales and subset of the scale, and control how CA cell-state changes map to MIDI events. Last revision: 2000.

FractMus 2000 ~ Win9x/Me/NT ~ 896 Kb

author: Gustavo Díaz-Jerez
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4386/
FractMus is a powerful algorithmic music application that can generate fully controlled compositions as well as random samplings from mathematical formulas (Morse-Thue, Logistic Map, 1/f noise, Henon, Hopalong, Martin, Gingerbread man and Lorenz algorithms). Some background in music could be of help for the user. This new version adds some new algorithms, password protection for *.fms files, the ability to save individual events, and better documentation. Source code available under the GPL license.
Last revision: 05 October 1999.

Gingerbread ~ v3.0 ~ Win9x/Me/NT/XP ~ 4.95 Mb

author: Phil Thompson
Home page: http://fractalmusician.com/
Once again, Phil is offering his old fractal music software collection "as is": he will no longer give support, so users will download, install and use at their own risk. Available are two versions of Gingerbread (2.0 and 3.0). According to many fractal music experts, Gingerbread is one of the most (if not the most) powerful fractal music generation software ever created. Version 2.0 requires a freely available registration code (visit Phil's web site, fractalmusician.com, to get it), while version 3.0 requires no registration at all.
Last revision: 2002.

LMUSe ~ v0.7b ~ DOS/JAVA ~ 677 Kb

author: David Sharp
Home page: ttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8764/lmuse/
LMUSe will convert L System fractals into musical compositions. Both images (GIF) and sound (MID or parameters) can be save. It is designed for DOS, but will runs on Windows without any problem. Actually, it's one of the most user-friendly DOS programs I've seen. There's also a new Java version on its web site, with some improvements. This last one requires the Java 1.3 JRE (or later) installed on your system (available separately from www.sun.com or some other jave-enable software).
Last revision: 24 December 1998 / 22 June 2001

Make Prime Music 98 ~ v1.1.3.2b ~ DOS ~ 105 Kb

author: Armand Turpel
Home page: http://www.2357.a-tu.net/ [offline]
This program creates midi files from prime numbers. Just input a prime number and a new MIDI file will be automatically created and saved to your hard disk or wherever you installed the program. You can change some parameter values (tempo, volume, size, note range, method, instruments and some more) modifying the mpmusic.ini file. Run in a windowed DOS session.
Last revision: 1998.