This set of 3 short movements is a bit under 6 minutes long. The first movement is for string quintet (string quartet plus bass), the second for piano four hands, and the third for woodwind quintet (flute playing piccolo). The L-Systems used for each movement come from invertible substitutions over a three-letter alphabet, with minimal transcendental complexity. It turns out that some more musical complexity results from having the slightly richer alphabet: each of these pieces uses three different time signatures (or equivalently, three different phrase lengths). Each movement uses the fourth generation of its L-System, so together with the axiom (generation 0) there are five independent voices in each setting, and four different fractal time scales.

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