Pi Day Song: A Piece of Pi (violin music for Pi Day)

[MysticOceanwaves]

Cool!

[333Joel666]

aaa

[anonymouskittylick2]

this song gets a 3.14

[schmulky]

Around two minutes into this video, I couldn't help but notice the five-note theme from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This absolutely made my day! Coincidence?

[czechsteve]

@schmulky - not coincidence...While composing the piece I noticed that the pattern of pitches existed in the data stream. By placing the pitches in those octaves it did highlight the Williams theme and I even added accents to those pitches to make it more evident.

Thanks for noticing and commenting!

[greenback001]

@czechsteve coincidence? not. This song is determined from the onset not by Pi itself but with the 220 degree applied. The coincidence stems from the culture Speilberg grew up in and surrounded himself with. In short, he's mainline Hollywood and that culture has a prominent numerology/mathematician = mythological magician bent to it. A degree is a degree is a degree.

[WSWarthog]

@schmulky

That was unmistakable.

[fanebabanu19]

@schmulky

yes indee, at 2.04 to 2.07 ;)

as i remember the movie, the guy with the electronic organ had that theme compiled from the noises of the big ship

[PaulineLovesPhysics]

This is great!

[dbherring]

Interesting! My 7-year-old boy is a math nut and when we first started watching/listening, he asked, "But what will the zeroes be?!?" So I was happy to see the explanation at the end. Enjoyed it! Thanks!

[czechsteve]

@dbherring Thanks! I am so happy!

[freekycello]

Sort of bizarre.

[elevenby2]

0:47 the pi man himself! ;)

[Nomoreidsleft]

@czechsteve Probably more melancholy than sadness. Well done.

[EinsteinxtremeRoblox]

How did you know which notes to play, and did you use all of the violin notes?

[czechsteve]

I used all 12 chromatic pitches but, yes, I did consider the full range of the violin when I did the composing.  Pi and the conversion formula gave me the order of the notes and rests but I had to decide how high or low to arrange them, the rhythms to make a good piece of music and the style to use to make it sound right to me...does this make sense?

[Albez36]

@czechsteve could try composing it for piano, thereby recognizing it up to the number 88- might be interesting?

[bandoupthebung]

this is amazing!!

[czechsteve]

Thanks!

[onexdata]

Is it just me or is the theme to "close encounters of the third kind" played near the end of the song at about 2:00? That is actually part of the mapped Pi? Was that intentional? Was the mapping done to incorporate this or what?

[czechsteve]

I am glad you noticed! It is part of the mapped Pi. As I went through the pitches when I was beginning to compose I saw that in the pattern and decided to accent those notes to bring it out...it was fun to see that, find it and bring it out.

[Turbo852]

Happy Pi Day! Nice song!

[czechsteve]

Thanks - Happy Pi Day to all!

[DSarahGarland]

Hi! I thought of the same idea independently, but went about it in a different way. I posted my "Pi 111" tune as a video response. In mine, I used a diatonic G major scale: 1 = G, 2 = A, 3 = B, 4 = C, etc. 8 is G again, in the next octave up, and 9 is the octave A. I used the octave B for 0.

[Jephthah101]

Great job! I would love to have the music for it so I could analyze how it was composed with pi.

[Sesquiltera]

2:04 LOL!!!

[czechsteve]

Thanks!

[tomxxdee]

i remembered when you play this in class! (sinfonia)

[whatwhatrocks]

wow, great job! it's armando lamberti and mary just writing to say how much we enjoyed this!

[czechsteve]

Thanks, guys!

[cherokeefats]

Oh well played, sir, well played.

[czechsteve]

Thank you!

[mcbiro]

Oh my good! at 2:04 i can hear exactly the music of "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind".

AMAZING

[czechsteve]

thanks for noticing - it really was there!

[Garnet826]

cool...