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- unibomber999, on 10/17/2007, -3/+298I like the chorus
- Triffid, on 10/17/2007, -22/+209Do NOT listen to this or you will end up driving a power drill through your head!!
- peter41, on 10/17/2007, -3/+177My god its so irrational.
- technogenius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+87http://www.tomdukich.com/math%20pi%20piano%20bass%20flute.html
that one sounds alot better, piano, bass and flute.. - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+78Did you just call Lamb Chop's Play-Along stupid?
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -2/+72The pauses may have been zeros...
- FloppyLlamaDigg, on 10/17/2007, -2/+69and it never ends..
- sw1ft, on 10/17/2007, -1/+67I do like the 1/4 note pauses on 0. They add intensity.
- bonexaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50This reminds me of when my college roommate used to mix music by playing parts of the Linux kernel as wav files.
- burkewendt, on 10/17/2007, -1/+50Wow, after awhile it becomes hypnotising
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -37/+84Oh, please stop it with the pretentious *****, there is absolutely no mathematical beauty is hearing digits of pi played out. If someone gave you this without the back story, you would all be wtf is this *****.
- ateoto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Yeah, I'm just nerdy enough to really want to go home now and do this on my keyboard.
- SeanG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38That is very cool! It just needed a visual indication on the number string of which number it was currently playing.
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -7/+36I wish it was chromatic instead of a major scale. Western scales don't have equal distances between the tones -- chromatic is all half steps. If you still don't know what I'm talking about, it'd be like going up one fret of a guitar at a time instead of going two, two, one, two, two, two, one.
Or make it even more interesting my doing 1/10ths (or 9ths, depends on what the zero is) of an octave.
And maybe make it a round? That might be kind of cool to near. - dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29It really gets good when it hits that "999999" sequence. Hold out for it, diggers, it's intense! Right up there with Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor. So intensely present and forceful, yet at the same time painfully wistful and longing. I must go now to softly weep...
- N1NJ4hippie, on 10/17/2007, -1/+28After awhile this makes me sleepy. Is it weird that I find Pi relaxing.
- heffocheffefer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Yes there would be, eventually pi will contain every sequence of integers. There was an article on digg a while back that was explaining how if you made a computer constantly working out pi in binary then eventually you would break every electronic copyright and have a copy of every piece of software/music.
- dengzhi, on 10/17/2007, -14/+38I cannot listen to it because I'm boycotting quicktime.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Zeros
- johnwyles, on 10/17/2007, -0/+19Now if we can assign the note length to another mathematical constant, perhaps e, we might be talking about a new hit song!
- sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@donelson
The pauses are whenever the number zero is encountered (it tells it on another part of the page). - sathias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19@battlecry
By that logic, the RIAA could sue Pi for illegally downloading every song ever written
/boggle
edit: er... yeah what heffocheffefer said - Easty, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22There's something oddly relaxing about it.
I was expecting it to sound all serialist. - LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15someone needs to make a techno remix out of that.
dj pi - infinity (limitless remix) - Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Considering that it's believed that pi is infinite, then yes, eventually there will be somewhere far down the line with a million 9's in a row. Along with any other possible number you could think of.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+27IMO it would have been better without the pauses. Pi doesn't have pauses afaik
- DaTaylorM, on 10/17/2007, -10/+21@Triffid - I'm sorry for the diggers digging you down. They obviously haven't see Pi!
- dreamywallflwr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@Bluteau
not good.... my two year old was sitting in my lap, lets hope he doesnt tell his mother. - GeneralKickass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Pi? Pfft. 2 Pi. Now that's called music.
- wush, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I like how that noise suddenly has "mathematical beauty" just because you're told it's a interpretation of pi. REAL DEEP, DUDES!
- theGREENsuit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13WTF?
- rsdigi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Honestly, I've been playing pi all along. this is exactly what happens when i sit down and just start wailing away on a piano, a guitar, etc. (i don't know how to play a musical instrument)
- ben_nushmut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm a music major, and in my music theory class we recently had a project where everyone had to create a piece based on "contemporary" styles, i.e., the music of John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Stockhausen, Xenakis. Someone in my class did their work with Pi as well, but the class was split up and assigned numbers to sing based on a 12-tone row (hope my theory-speak isn't overwhelming you!), which would be the chromatic notes you were looking for. With that, 0 is the "tonic" note, and we also went up to 9. I'd have to hear them together, but I personally thought that the chromatic interpretation was more interesting, especially as you could set durations at the behest of the conductor. Very cool stuff, regardless!
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Only thing I didn't like about it was the pauses between some of the notes
- 1b2a, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Movement two should be minor. Movement three should be a chromatic scale.
- mattmollysdad, on 10/17/2007, -3/+11
This is nuts. It's a F major scale. The 2nd note and the 9th note are the same (G)... one octave apart. So even if Pi has no repetitive patterns by assigning the same note to two different numbers u screw it up. - alsotopia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7We've got you covered
http://www.tomdukich.com/math%20e%20piano%20solo.html - generalhooha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I find "e" to be more relaxing.
- vs292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@Bluteau
That's just wrong. ***** wrong.
NSFW too. - glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8quick, someone send this to Weird Al to update the "white and nerdy" video
- luvkit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Schoenberg would be jealous.
- Mousse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@bluteau
That's because 1/3 is a rational number and is therefore represented by a repeating decimal. Pi is irrational and its decimal representation doesn't uniformly repeat itself. - thatsmyaibo, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6I like the pop version better
http://pi.ytmnd.com/ - SteveRogers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Someone should do 1.6180339887..., etc.
- wipis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Someone should create a program that just keeps calculating Pi and assigning the notes so it just plays forever. Or until computer ***** up
- damentz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dear Digg Users,
We are in the process of mass banning any musical use of Pi due to copyright infringement. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely, RIAA - phmfthacim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@ender,
it's not in decimal. they assigned the 7 notes to 9 digits, so the 1 and 2 can be played two ways. it's actually very pretty, no matter what some people on here are saying, because the 2 (9) can be played twice, and the 2 is a very nice thing to play in your melodies. also, the beginning 1415 is a good way to start a melody. I like also that it isn't centered around any one mode, it switches between them smoothly, so you can imagine nice sounding modal chords in the background. lastly, it would sound very bad without the 0s being rests! - tannergdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5While your at it divide it into triads or larger chords and see what happens. i.e. 1415 as kind of a sus chord with the 5th added? or something like that. Might change the whole feel.
- owensbofe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.tomdukich.com/math%20songs.html
visualizations and other constant songs (like e) are on this site - ryancxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Guitar Pro
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