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What Pi Sounds Like
I've always loved generative music, and this guy used Pi as the basis for his composition. I'm not saying it's as good as Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber or something, but it's a great way to get ready for Pi day which is tragically still not a federal holiday. Write your congressman.
I'm not saying it's as good as Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber or something
And thank god for that...
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I always thought Pi sounded more like this. But then I used to be on YTMND.
Any random notes from a clearly defined scale (e.g. C major) paired with triadic chords from the same scale will sound vaguely pleasant.
Thus, this is not "what PI" sounds like as much as it's what C major sounds like.
Why not base 7 representation of Pi?
Stop being silly. Perhaps after reading this, you will understand why it's simply retarded to even mention pi: http://tauday.com/
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Ok, it's actually pi rounded to 31 decimals, played in the round.
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"The twelve-tone equal-tempered scale is the smallest equal-tempered scale that contains all seven of the basic consonant intervals to a good approximation — within one percent."
http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Music/12Tone.htm
Convert pi to base 12:
PI in base_12 = 3.184809493b9186459aaa3a83 (approximation)
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread352234/pg
Now play 3.184809493b9186459aaa3a83.... as keyboard notes.
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What he's playing is just a steady stream of quarter notes that get overlaid with straight eighth and sixteenth notes later on. There's absolutely nothing interesting happening from a rhythmic perspective at all. No syncopation, no rests, nothing. Just bars full of quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. Disappointing. You could do a whole lot with pi rhythmically, too.
So do it
As good as Justin Bieber? Good god, the kid is a product of the music industry which is pushing it in very obnoxious ways.
Any random notes from a clearly defined scale (e.g. C major) paired with triadic chords from the same scale will sound vaguely pleasant. Thus, this is not "what PI" sounds like as much as it's what C major sounds like.
In a similar spirit, I once wrote musical representations of quantum algorithms. I played around with various scales, and it turned out that the best sounding scale actually depended on the algorithm. But then of course the underlying data was not nearly as random as pi.
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I turned "Hello World" into an experimental track by translating the phrase into morse code and using it as a synth buzz beat hook...
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And e is much easier to remember to 9 decimal places.
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