THREE FRACTAL MINIATURES Each of these three short pieces employs a self-similar or chaotic process as part of its compositional method. In addition to these structural algorithms, many details of the music’s surface were “hand-tuned” for increased musical expressiveness. Each piece is preceded by a short animated graphic illustrating some aspect of the computer process that generated the music’ s structure. 1. Koch Classic uses the well-known fractal “Koch Snowflake” procedure to generate a recursive, self-similar structure of continual rising intervals (perfect and diminished fifths). Calling it “classic” is a littleprivate sjoke, because I previously used this same idea in my very first fractal piece, Fractal Study 1 , from 1986. 2.Ave at Sea gets its title because the original harmony of the piece comes from my earlier setting of the traditional plainchant hymn, Ave Maris Stella, (Hail, Star of the Sea). The algorithm that generates the rising and falling “waves” of notes is the same used by the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to predict ocean wave heights as related to wind speed. The music is accompanied by a visual fantasia built of digitally processed water waves. 3. A Little Shuffled Music is a fractal re-arrangement of the first 64 bars of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. The fractal algorithm in this case is a simple recursive shuffling of these 64 bars such that every second and fourth section, second and fourth phrase, and second and fourth bar are swapped. Mozart’s rhythm’s and harmonies were also adapted (non-algorithmically) to a 1980’s style “blues shuffle”. Three Fractal Miniatures was written in 2022 for Toronto’s Odin Quartet.