SOUTH NELSON MAYHEM
by Fred Nachbaur, November 1999
"A Suite of Fractals" Op.3 No. 3

This one's a little different. Kind of a funky salsa jazz rock fusion thing. It started
life as another sequence generated by "Well Tempered Fractal" (from a Kamtorus fractal, to be
precise), one which sat on my hard drive for several months before going anywhere. The problem 
was converting a sequence of "interesting noises" into something that resembled music.

Then it occurred to me that the charm of the sequence lay in its rhythm, rather than the melody.
So I re-mapped it as drum sounds, and much to my delight the piece began to take shape. With only
minor changes (to eliminate out-of-place drum instrument sounds) the sequence formed a nice drum
track with a basic 5/8 rhythm. The bass line quickly evolved from that, and the rest was just the
"90% perspiration" stuff.

This piece is quite martial in flavour, and a great kick-off to Section II of the suite. 
(Are you beginning to see a pattern here?) Keep an eye out for a new freeware RPG containing this
composition as a combat theme ;-)

Fred Nachbaur