The Sound Of Pi

There has been many attempts to make a conversion of the digits of Pi to musical notes, but I noticed that the methods used were pretty unrealistic. What they were doing was to convert the 10 digits of the decimal system in 10 notes, and then play them. Of course that doesn't make any sense because our musical notation has 12 notes! So I converted the digits of Pi to the duodecimal system (Base 12), and made a program to play it. Here are the results.

You can download the midi audio here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2tik66gk3b88gyx

The program I made:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6ib5svdvqjl85g3

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Math
• Music
• Pi

[4starblue]

how's about the imaginary number j or i. ya know, the square root of -1.

[chatran20]

@4starblue debtmaster has the right explanation. Maybe you're confused by the euler identity evaluated in 2*Pi, which leads to e^(i*2*Pi) = 1. I was puzzled when I was a kid with this, because I thought that "i" actually had a decimal representation that satisfies the equation. It all gets simpler once you start to delve into complex numbers ;)

[GRMEGISTOS]

PLEASE, CAN YOU DO THE SAME WITH THE GOLDEN NUMBER φ ??? 1.618 , PLEASE TRY IT CAUSE EVERYTHING IN NATURE HAVE THE GOLDEN NUMBER INSIDE! THANK YOU!

[chatran20]

@GRMEGISTOS I just posted a link to the program in the description of the video. The program is in spanish (Originally I didn't expected to share it) but the use is very straightforward. Just open the golden number in the numbers folder. If the program can't open just install the Net Framework (Google, it's free) I actually disagree with you. Some shapes in nature slightly approximate to that constant, but is more amazing how many times Pi or e appear in physics.

[angelorf]

@chatran20 it would be interesting to know how many digits it would take to get to a Justin Bieber song. probably a couple of billion or so..

I haven't done Buddhabrot yet. Actually I was talking to this other guy who did a 4d rendering of it, and decided it was my next todo-item on the fractal list. So but you need random for this?! that's nasty! If a fractal needs some random number generation, the beauty kind of fades away, I think, since the fractal function is not deterministic anymore...

[chatran20]

@angelorf Yes, because what you actually do it's generate some random complex number and iterate it. Then you save all the points in the orbit and increase the hit number of those pixels if the complex point do not belong to the mandelbrot set. Random is needed in order to get the sufficient amount of points outside the set (you need a lot, around 1000000). That's what makes this nebulae effect. And actually you would be surprised how many scientific applications use random in their algorithms.

[rgbomb]

the point is to use base 8 because thats how many are in a standard scale! you a rendering without any scale, obviously its gonna sound like crap

[peperplanet]

(Arnold Schoenberg)^(i*2*Pi) = erroroororoorororrorooroorooro­rororrorrorroorrorrorororrorro­rorr...

[riku2211]

SOunds like someone falling down stairs

[projectbaum]

Another idea would be to use the ten digits of the number system as representations of notes in a 10-TET system and play it that way. I'd give it a shot if I had the slightest idea how to get a computer program to do it.

[projectbaum]

@rgbomb

Crap, no. Atonal, yes. Big difference, as some of us out there happen to prefer atonal compositions.

[frajirek90]

We need 10hrs version

[BeakyRed]

@mailbox2223 lol like your password is a musical piano or something

[BabuinoMortal]

why is there yoga videos related to this?

[blakandpurple]

This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends. Some people started playing this, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue playing it forever just because... this is the song that never ends.

[mailbox2223]

Dang they just guessed my password

[secretbonus]

Greek pi was 22/7 (3.1428) so perhaps playing 2 notes which have harmonic frequencies to each other of 22 and 7 or something can work too.