Pi Symphony: The Ruse Performance Movement I.

Pi Symphony orchestral performance in Ruse, Bulgaria, Nov. 19th, 2010
To purchase a CD: http://www.pisymphony.com/mustore.html

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Music

Tags:

• Pi
• natural log
• Pi symphony
• Lars
• Erickson
• Math
• Music
• pi day
• Bulgaria
• Pyce

[MinamuTV]

Seriously? You can't copyright numbers.

[pisymph]

@MinamuTV correct. Pi is a number not a melody. Nobody can copyright pi.

[TheKatie144]

It's kinda funny how you claim rights to a tune made by numbers.

So, you claim a number?

OOH, OOH, I CALL THE NUMBER 42 NOBODY MAY SING IT!

Really?

I do have respect in the fact you want to claim your music for yourself but there was no reason to take something that simple to court.

[pisymph]

@TheKatie144 Correct! And, it is a last resort when dealing with someone who " would have gladly paid" a royalty, then decided to listen to everyone who thinks it's okay to take a copyrighted melody because it can be derived from pi.

[Chuuuknooo]

But now I am very sad because I think that lawyers should stay out of this. The other guy Michael John Blake, seems to have done that for fun with friends, and I'm not sure you'll get much money from him. Maybe it would be better to settle an agreement so you can find a way to gain notorioty from his buzzing video instead of beeing seen as the "bad guy" and having a very bad buzz.

Don't you think ? If it wasn't from his video, I would never have heard of you.

Cheers from Paris

[pisymph]

@Chuuuknooo Please do not discount the distinct possibility ( probability) that had I not posted 'Explanation of The Pi Symphony' you would not have heard of this video.

[ModernTuba]

As wrong as I believe your copyright infringement claim is, I still very much enjoyed your symphony. I'm glad both musical expressions of π were created, and I believe there can never be too much beautiful art in the world. It would be quite something if the both of you found a way to work together for the greater good of promoting mathematics and music on π day instead of celebrating the art of litigation.

[tiznull]

Hey Lars, maybe you can explain this to everyone, you are claiming to have creative rights to Pi Symphony orchestral performance in Ruse, Bulgaria in which you tell a person to remove their video? Who actually has the rights?

[wilberry7]

this is so beautiful

[topolino70]

Trancendental number PI = trancendental music

[PyroDijckhoff]

@pisymph "I am simply defending my work" - what work? You just took a bunch of numbers and converted them to notes... Music theory depends on knowing that the tonic is the 1st note of a scale, the supertonic is the 2nd, etc. It is fundamental to associate numbers to notes in a scale.

That said, this is a lovely orchestration, and you've done well to arrange the instruments, but I don't believe it's right to attempt to file a copyright claim on what is essentially a number

[Mirek002]

@pisymph Actually, creativity often implies a whole lot of copying and just a smidgeon of something personal. There rarely is something completely original and new. Even Apple's CEO Steve Jobs admits to "shameless stealing" from competitors, quoting Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." I'm sure you yourself as an artist have toyed with others' ideas, took others' ideas and incorporated them into your art.