PI as Music

Happy PI Day!!!

This is my contribution. I decided to see what pi sounded like as music. I was going to do 10,000 notes, but that was wayyyy too long. I settled for 3000 notes. This only took about 10 lines of code, so don't expect too much. For a number with no pattern, it sure has a catchy melody! It sort of reminds me of a really old bad Atari video game soundtrack. LOL Does it remind you of anything???

Each note is derived from each digit. The formula for the frequency I used is as follows:

freq = (100 + (digit * 100)) hertz played at 100ms intervals. Hope you enjoy! :)

Category:

Music

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• PI
• Day
• 314
• Math
• Music
• Programming
• Computers
• algebra
• beep

[dsaerno]

SOMEONE SHOULD DO PI MUSIC IN BINARY

[squimball]

@dsaerno I think it would turn out about the same. I'm no math expert though. :P

[irka271981]

instead of this sounds there should be percussion!!!!!

[squimball]

@irka271981 Hahaha, yeah I've thought about doing that too. If it is easy enough, I just might. I've never tried programming MIDI through code before though, so who knows. :)

[kennis942]

Hi i can migth redo this in c ++ but how did you store the numbers ?

[squimball]

I just stored them in a txt file and played the notes as I read the file (byte by byte). I'm sure there are other ways as well.

[775blackheart]

OMG, please send me this program, it'd be so much fun

[AndersonThompsonJr]

thanx!

[rachel111198]

it sounds like Mario! wtf :P

[jishan22]

1:27

[createrainbowz]

: )

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[AwesomeVent]

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[Beenzanotto]

What is awesome is the small patterns that you can hear.

Of course, this is because we are expressing pi in base 10 meaning only 10 possible digits (0-9) and therefore only 10 possible pitches, so there's only so many possible combinations.

[DiscoveryChannelMyth]

sounds 8 bit



[hivelocity100]

@intheshitter haha very true.

[anticorncob6]

@dsaerno Print some digits in binary, then play them with your piano. I'll do that right now and hear what it sounds like.