Pi Day Song: A Piece of Pi (violin music for Pi Day)

Sheet music for this piece is now available at: http://www.ovationpress.com/c-171-roc...

Composed for PI Day! PI represented as musical notes! This is a violin solo composed by Steven Rochen, based on the numbers of PI to 220 decimal places.

Numbers were converted to notes: 0 = rest, 1=A, 2=A#...(10, 11, 12 as found in the sequence were treated as one note)

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[Seth Lockman]

Around two minutes into this video, I couldn't help but notice the five-note theme from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This absolutely made my day! Coincidence?

[czechsteve]

- not coincidence...While composing the piece I noticed that the pattern of pitches existed in the data stream. By placing the pitches in those octaves it did highlight the Williams theme and I even added accents to those pitches to make it more evident.

Thanks for noticing and commenting!

[dbherring]

Interesting! My 7-year-old boy is a math nut and when we first started watching/listening, he asked, "But what will the zeroes be?!?" So I was happy to see the explanation at the end. Enjoyed it! Thanks!

[czechsteve]

Thanks! I am so happy!

[Gia Shoobridge]

this is amazing!!

[czechsteve]

Thanks!

[Sesquiltera]

2:04 LOL!!!

[rockfranke33]

Very cool

[fanebabanu19]

yes indee, at 2.04 to 2.07 ;)

as i remember the movie, the guy with the electronic organ had that theme compiled from the noises of the big ship

[333Joel666]

aaa

[greenback001]

coincidence? not. This song is determined from the onset not by Pi itself but with the 220 degree applied. The coincidence stems from the culture Speilberg grew up in and surrounded himself with. In short, he's mainline Hollywood and that culture has a prominent numerology/mathematician = mythological magician bent to it. A degree is a degree is a degree.

[Robert Strain]

this song gets a 3.14

[WSWarthog]

That was unmistakable. 

[PaulineLovesPhysics]

This is great!