Monday, March 16, 2009

Pi as Music

A couple days ago was Pi day (03-14)! I recently found something that sounded a lot better than I would have anticipated... so I'm posting it here. It's a composition based on the number Pi.

The idea is simple: transpose each digit into a corresponding note. The problem is that our number system is base 10, but Western music has 12 notes. So what this person did was use the C major scale (the white keys on a piano) as a basis. So 1234567890 became CDEFGABCDE. So 3.14... became ECF... and so on.

This is the result, kinda fun and technically never ending:

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