Pi Symphony , Ruse, Mvmt. II: The Circle

The second movement of Pi Symphony, performed in Ruse, Bulgaria, No. 19, 2010. Anthony Armore conducting. Composed by Lars Erickson. ©1992 © revised 2010
To purchase: http://www.pisymphony.com/mustore.html

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Pi
• Pi Symphony
• Lars Erickson
• Math
• Music
• Natural Logarithm
• Pi Day
• Orchestra
• copyright

[bassclef73]

Congratulations.

You took my two favourite things (math and music) and successfully combined them into one mind-blowing symphony.

I don't think anything could make me happier at this moment.

Well, maybe if I was served pi(e) while listening to this...

Superb work.

[pisymph]

@bassclef73  Thank-you.

[pisymph]

@nessdude14 Though this may be true, that is a big 'IF'. There has to be a more compelling reason than 'simpler'. No person who really uses math will ever consider a division or multiplication by 2 to be sufficient justification for abandoning millennia of rightful usage of a math constant. That's just my opinion, of course.

[nessdude14]

@pisymph If we started using tau instead of pi, we would never have a need to use pi. All relationships expressed using pi can also be expressed using tau, and often in a simpler form than when using pi.

[pisymph]

@cchderrick I was just speaking with my son this evening about Tau. Since it is simply a multiple of pi, it seems a bit redundant to me. You will still need pi. Real mathematicians or engineers would have no use for this.

[cchderrick]

@pisymph its the college freshmen taking algebra that cant, because it make no sense. A lot of function is written in 2pi, like the fourier transform, or something simple, area of the circle, A=1/2 tau r^2, just like other physic equation 1/2gt^2. I am fine with pi, its just the people thinking math is some sort of magic will have problem understanding it.

[pisymph]

@AdricTW Actually, I think most mathematicians can multiply by two.

[AdricTW]

too bad Pi is wrong... Happy Tau Day!

[pisymph]

@StevenBee2 I did not copyright pi. Besides,  the first 32 digits, upon which my copyrighted melody is based have not been widely known for 200 years, let alone 2000 years. Thanks for your comment.

[StevenBee2]

Very beautiful music... but how can you copyright pi?? Hell, Pythagoras was probably making music based on it in the fifth century BC