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This got me curious: what does pi sound like? And the answer is that it's actually surprisingly tonal. The opening "31415" firmly establishes the key, and there
by hugh3 15y ago
This got me curious: what does pi sound like? And the answer is that it's actually surprisingly tonal. The opening "31415" firmly establishes the key, and thereafter there's sonorous intervals to keep everything fairly well-behaved; the few out-of-place notes can be dealt with by an appropriate sort of rhythym. If you're gonna try it I recommend it as far as:
31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
So that you get a nice 5-1 ending.
- nostrademons 15y agoPi actually reminds me a bit of "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma variations. The opening is only one note off, and then many of the later sequences in pi have the same large jumps that Nimrod does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE
- evanrmurphy 15y agoReally cool concept. :) Doesn't every sequence of numbers sound fairly tonal on the Les Paul logo though, since it's restricted to diatonic pitches?
- nandemo 15y agoExactly. And if you assigned the numbers to the blues scale degrees, it would sound very bluesy. ;-)