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- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29http://pi.ytmnd.com/
Who ever imagined Pi could be so damn catchy? - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Here's what really needs to happen. Compute pi in base 12 then assign each of the 12 numbers a spot in the full scale.
- thexder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Pi isn't random. It follows the sequence of the digits of Pi. Every single time.
- curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17This is actually how people who memorize 80,000+ digits of Pi are able to remember it, they are savants or autistic people usually who notice melodic patterns in the numbers themselves!
- ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Kind of reminds me of the book Contact (wasn't in the movie). In it, the advanced alien race that was communicating with the people sent through The Machine told that there was a pattern deep deep deep within Pi...and after searching further and further into Pi they actually found a message. Yes, a message actually built INTO Pi....which could only have come from the creator(s) of the physical universe.
It was quite interesting. - Progranism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Will Pi be the next Mozart?
- leoCT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Phillip Glass to me.
- bede, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Sounds more like Bach to me
- curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7when I said patterns in the numbers, I didn't mean to say Pi isn't random, but rather the melodic nature of the sequence of numbers as they are read aloud!
- neokoenig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If they were really clever, they'd also use the Pi sequence to dictate the rhythm as well: Bit like avant garde composers like berio etc..
- xiphoris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Oh, to be specific, the one of the reasons that there is no pattern in PI is because base 10 is completely arbitrary. People spend time trying to prove "God" by looking at the patterns in the numbers; but they forget that the numbers are merely incidental as a result of using decimal to express PI.
11.
00100100 00111111 01101010 10001000 10000101 10100011 00001000 11010011
00010011 00011001 10001010 00101110 00000011 01110000 01110011 01000100
10100100 00001001 00111000 00100010 00101001 10011111 00110001 11010000
00001000 00101110 11111010 10011000 11101100 01001110 01101100 10001001
^- Turn that into music and you'll get something different (PI in binary) - solarpowered, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Nice. Beautiful presentation.
Except terribly base-10-centric. (chauvinistic? provincial?)
The number base for pi should equal the number of notes in the scale, so that you can get all notes of the scale! (12 tone scale -> use base 12)
Oh well.. just another consequence of people thinking there's something special about the number 10. - TheFightForGood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8While they may recognize the numbers as a musical sequence, it is far from being a pattern because pi is random, at least so far.
- bluehouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The pattern would sound the same in any key. It's just a matter of what note it starts on. So if this is true there could be a pattern in any key around 1600. Maybe it would be more interesting if they used the numbers not only for the note but for ADSR (attack, decay, sustain and release) as well.
- Matt2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This was actually made by a group called Hard n' Phrim. A lot of their other songs are pretty catchy too.
The music video for this song is hilarious. Watch it here
http://keithschofield.com/pi/std.html
If you like their music, check into buying their CD
http://www.hardnphirm.com/ - zone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That wasn't bad. It actually felt like there was some kind of melody there and there..
And the infinity of Pi reminded me of that ol' story about a weird 639 year concert. I think they could use this to spice things up and fill the gaps.. lazy musicians :)
http://www.digg.com/science/The_longest_concert_in_history_is_on_right_now._It_will_last_639_years. - zefer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This makes me think of Synesthesia "the neurological mixing of the senses" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia].
- overbyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4~geoboy wrote:
http://pi.ytmnd.com/
Who ever imagined Pi could be so damn catchy?
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Please make them take a breath, i beg you - i acutally stopped breathing while listening to this - Karmalary, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Who's to say a full scale only has 12 notes? What about quarter tones?.
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The day has only just begun.
- chillypepper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 Did someone say pie?
- Legion303, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm a musician and a mathematician, yet I find this lame. Far too simplistic.
- RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When's the Pi Diddy Remix comin out?
- xiphoris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People keep saying that pi isn't "random". Yes, pi is the same every time. No, you cannot predict the next digit from the one that came before it.
Statistically speaking, the digits of PI are completely random -- this means there is no pattern to them, or rather, no more pattern than you would find in a sequence of random digits. Surprisingly, this means quite a lot of repeated numbers, etc. Probability is usually quite unintuitive to humans :) - R4wBon3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you squint your eyes and look at the binary rep of Pi above, it reads: SNEAKERS
There is the secret to life we were all looking for! - deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was just thinking this... this thing would be truly amazing if it let you pick octal, hex, or whatever base you want.
BTW, the number 10 is special... it's how many fingers we have and thus our collective numbering system is based on the expression of our species' genes. - pretendex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's right Pi isn't random. To be exact, it is a transcendental number, just like eulers constant.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The music is definately not square.
- samstr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Thats strange and interesting
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http://www.wirah.com - rayzincrisp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can't... turn... it.... off.... Ahhhh it's in my head!!!
- Massif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love this. It's so chaotic and yet beautiful to listen to.
- slippery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if you pick just black keys - it will definitely sound like a song. the Sharps (or the Flats if your pessimistic) always sound good together.
And to those who said it would be better with random notes - you can pick any random notes you want. You don't have to pick a key - or pick the notes in any type of order. - crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This sounds so bad.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it's correct to say that pi is not random, the next digit is not random, it's well defined. With a dice you can't tell what the next digit will be, with pi you can, exactly even. With a dice you can say that each digit in the next stage has a probability of 1/6th. With pi there is a probability of 1 for the next digit, hence it's certain.
pi does even follow a pattern, it follows the pattern of pi.
a true random number can't be compressed
pi can be compressed very well, if I say to you pi:100000 you can guess that I mean the first 100000 digits of pi. - joshduck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Put it in F Major, around 1600 you will hear a familiar pattern.
- CoolSilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Would you rather it have demonic patterns instead?
- joshduck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You're right about he "ADSR" too. Though there is not an obvious way to do that. Oh yeah, I *may* have been kidding about the 1600 thing too...
- inferno10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Watching that piano light up as the numbers of Pi play out reminds me of the music sequence near the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
- CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that whole website rocks!
- tedc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Two-octave pentatonic sounds pretty good in base 10.
- mixd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow i created the worst song ever! digg for creativity, although it is similar to fractal music, just more random
- cantimolto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aw man, it only goes up to 10,000. Pentatonics made it nice background music.
- bmauter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, it will sound the same in any major key as they had listed. Try a minor key. I tried Dm (which is the same as the key of F, just start on D) and it was spooky.
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4No, sir. This is good stuff. I second the mod-down.
We'd probably find cooler musical patterns in its definitions ( like those on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi ) than its digits though. - OfARevolution23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the Pi 'game' but I must admit, the others on the site are quite, stupid.
- oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I knew it!!! It IS 42.... Actually, someone told me.... So there...
cyborg
I liked it!! - kohan69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Creativity DIGG
- bluehouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Instead of using one digit at a time they could use a block of digits to determine the note, velocity and ADSR etc.
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