A day late, but still, I thought it was neat.
I like the idea of turning Pi into music because who knows, maybe there is a pattern to the digits that is too subtle for the conscious mind, but our musical appreciation sense can pick it up.
I imagine a study where you ask people “what note do you think comes next” and see if they can achieve an accuracy above pure chance.
Of course, this depends on the representation of pi in decimal.
With eight notes, I expected him to use octal instead.
He kind of skirted around what to do about the digits 0 and 9.
(I’ve mentioned this to you before, but it’s apropos of every Pi Day)
Another song of pi, by Hard’n’Phirm:
In show context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU
Just the song, with lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRkcGPRXux4
Zap, of course, is a parody of the 1972 PBS show “Zoom”.
(It was also revived in 1999.)
Hmmm, actually, that’s a very good point. Octal would make more sense. Wonder if it would sound better.
I’ve heard the other Pi song before. I love how it sounds like the prayer of some alien math cult… all chanted and evenly intoned.