What Tau Sounds Like

Musician interprets the mathematical constant Tau to 126 decimal places.
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• tau
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• pi day
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[elcasiegno]

I personally think this sounds better than "What Pi Sounds Like".

[UFOria212]

well, it sounds "pretty" because they're in a major scale (no accidentals/black keys). There isn't much dissonance(half-step intervals) that arises from that except B(Maj 7) & C(Tonic), and E(Maj 3rd) & F(P4th) which still sound good to the ears.

However....if you decided to include ALL the notes, including accidentals/black keys (1,2,3,4,5=C,C#,D,D#,E etc.), then you'd get some pretty nasty/harsh sounds. Modern composers have experimented with using numbers in music for quite a while.

[ArielJonathan]

A little history here! Levenshtein decided that Tau was better than Pi (of course it's possible to decide that!) when his friend Shrödinger played piano on a Shoninger. True story! Here is the proof:

levenshtein('schrödinger', 'shoninger', 628, 314, 0) = levenshtein('schrödinger', 'shoninger', 314, 628, 0) = 628

(costs in order: insertion, replacement, deletion for the sceptics) ;)

[Udragon034]

you should convert tau to 8 base (as 8 notes in major scale), or better convert to base 12 (as 6 tons in an octave). then start from 440Hz A and move on. that's fair music.

[VicRmr]

Tau sounds more like a romantic ballad compared to Pi



[Jotunn54]

Someone has probably already said this but michaeljohnblake should do a musical interpretation of Euler's number, 2.71828... or Phi, 1.618...

[MagusMirificus]

Reminds me Yann Tiersen...and that's high praise.

Quebec Antique is awesome, too. You guys need to make more albums.

[NonexistentFlower]

But the τ-ists say that π is wrong! Does that make τ twice as wrong?

[frankjohnson123]

I think you're missing the point a bit. Music is beautiful to us because it is made by people for people, and we have an idea of what we like. The Moonlight Sonata is an incredible and haunting piece, but that's because it was crafted by a genius. τ is beautiful because it is everywhere in nature or, more specifically, mathematics. It may not sound pretty to us, but the sound of a river is also less appealing to most than a fine piece of music.

[Gabrielabc42]

Exactly, with the right scale, made by the man, it is almost impossible to make a bad song. Now try to assign Tau with frequency in hertz or something like that and you will hear an horrible noise.

[frankjohnson123]

Music is a construct of man. τ is the ratio of the two fundamental measurements of the fundamental shape, the circle.