3.11.11 - 5:00PM
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Christine Friar

'What Pi Sounds Like' Puts Math to Music

michael blake sets pi to music Musician Michael Blake has created a system that assigns numbers to certain musical notes and chords -- and then he's used that system to make a song out of the first 31 decimal places of pi.

Geeky? Sure.

Sound cool? You bet.

link:// Michael Blake's YouTube Channel

*/ tags: accordian - math - pi - piano - singing - songs - ukelele

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3.11.11

By Ian

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This is nothing too new. It's a form (albeit a weak one) of serialism. What this piece is missing, however, is serializing the tonal structure, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, instrumentation, etc.

Speaking as someone with a degree in music and who has studied theory (including analysis, theory and concepts like serialism, etc) I don't think this is very musically interesting, but it is aesthetically pleasing :)

3.12.11

By Ayla McIntosh

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Hahahahaha. Cool.
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3.13.11

By babu

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Glad to have bumped into this.

In hope you will delete comments from people who do not routinely recite thousands, or at least hundreds of digits of pi, warm congratulations and applause. What an unusual job, a job particularly well done.