Pi Day Song: A Piece of Pi (violin music for Pi Day)
Loading...
Uploaded by czechsteve on Apr 24, 2008
Sheet music for this piece is now available at: http://www.ovationpress.com/c-171-rochen-steven.aspx
Composed for PI Day! Imagine being able to hear PI 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)
- 72 likes, 4 dislikes
-
Link to this comment:
Uploader Comments (czechsteve)
Top Comments
-
2:04 LOL!!!
2 years ago 7
-
Hi! I thought of the same idea independently, but went about it in a different way. I posted my "Pi 111" tune as a video response. In mine, I used a diatonic G major scale: 1 = G, 2 = A, 3 = B, 4 = C, etc. 8 is G again, in the next octave up, and 9 is the octave A. I used the octave B for 0.
1 year ago 4
All Comments (37)
-
Cool!
-
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
-
aaa
-
@czechsteve 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.
-
this song gets a 3.14
-
That was unmistakable.
-
This is great!
- 6:04The Sound Of Piby chatran2048,175 views
- 2:14The Pi Songby tivadar895,270 views
- 3:496 year old recites 380 digits of Piby seagull13376,415 views
- 0:36The Sound of Piby upuautiii18,507 views
- 8:22Pi Symphony: The Ruse Performance Movement I.by pisymph15,437 views
- 9:33A day in the life of a Pre-Kindergarten Student...by TrinityMassena5,623 views
- 3:26Mathematical Music...!!by jaihindbrenny20,571 views
- 1:05Pi song!by scarybitchboy29,166 views
- 1:08The Pi Songby XH4X4G3X418,787 views
- 0:29The Real PI Songby gwgygeriii23,718 views
- 2:38Pi Rapby sbrunvan43,363 views
- 1:522.71828183: The number e songby danielwedge27,252 views
- 0:49Copyright Issues with "What Pi Sounds Like"by michaeljohnblake37,403 views
- 5:42PI as Musicby squimball17,513 views
- 1:09Pi Songby austron135,670 views
- 2:59Happy Pi Day! _Paradox.by.aviby Mitiaparadox10,495 views
- 1:04The worlds most annoying song / Pi songby mripod22434,394 views
- 1:37Speed Piby kurtgodden314,909 views
- 4:32Pi Rap Battle - Lose Yourself (In The Digits) -...by nathan314159139,747 views
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?
schmulky 9 months ago
@schmulky - 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!
czechsteve 9 months ago
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!
dbherring 10 months ago
@dbherring Thanks! I am so happy!
czechsteve 10 months ago
this is amazing!!
bandoupthebung 1 year ago
Thanks!
czechsteve 1 year ago