A Musical Composition Based on Pi - Neatorama

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Michael Blake assigned note values to numerals and played pi to the first 31 decimal places. He starts with a simply piano melody, but then he brings in an accordion, a xylophone, a ukulele, a banjo, and other instruments.

via Geekosystem | Previously: Pi on the Piano

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the melody does grow on you. it's like a music bed for drama movies or romcoms. :D

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Would've preferred to see some rhythmic variation (as opposed to equal note duration on each of the numbers) but it's already pretty cute sounding!

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What note was 9?

Geez, those multi-instrumentalists really kill my self-esteem.

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I betcha the ending is really nice ... oh wait ...

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Ruben: It looks like he just continued up for 9 and 0. 8 = C an octave up, 9 = D, 0 = E.

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Would've been more interesting if he serialized some pitches and based his melody off of the row he created. Anyway, it's somewhat pretty, but the counterpoint in canon doesn't work. Just... my... two... cents.

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Pi is pretty.

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