Listen to all four of my math based songs here: open.spotify.c... Happy Pi Day! For Blake's other videos: Phi: bit.ly/what-phi... Tau: bit.ly/what-tau... e: • What e Sounds Like
Dear people, Stop complaining about the music. He clearly said it is an interpretation. He never said it was a perfect comparison to what pi might sound like. Also, pi is a mathmatical figure. I highly doubt the person who discovered (is that the right word?) it meant for it to also be musically adaptable. He did something none of us did. And to the people saying it's just a "random" assortment of notes, when you get down to it, every song out there is just a bunch of "random" notes. By the way, not all random notes sound good together. Ever mashed down a bunch of keys on a piano? It doesn't always sound pleasing. Are there different ways to interpret it? Yes. Is there a "perfect" way to interpret it? No. This song is an interesting perspective of a guy who enjoyed playing a neat little tune. So be quiet and enjoy the music, or stop watching it if you don't like it. I applaud you Michael Blake. Sincerely, Alex Ralph P.S. This song is helping me win a pi memorization contest at my school. Thank you Michael.
I come back to this song year after year, I’ve listened to it every year for 8 years. This just brings me so much joy. It combines my two favorite things, math and music. Thank you so much. It sounds awesome on the flute btw.
Hey fellow commenters, is anyone else here from the new Fever book, Feversong? Because all fantasy romance series talk about Pi and how it can be applied to music.... btw I agree Dancer, this song is pretty cool.
A lot of commentors are missing the fact that all the harmonies used in this video come from pi itself. The musician makes a canon out of the tune by starting it again halfway through. And then layers the same tune over that playing it twice as fast, and then twice as fast again. And layers it under that by playing it half as fast. He's not making up the chords to make it sound harmonic; that's occuring naturally. Amazing!
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This is lame. He is assigning the numbers to the notes of one tonality. Of course it sound good. This music is tonal. Every sequence of numbers asigned to one tonality are going to sound nice. You should listen to Béla Bartók. The use of numbers in his music is much more complex and interesting.
Every time I listen to this it brings me to tears. Math is so, so beautiful, and this piece is a perfect expression of that. This is how it feels for me every day when I do math, and I'd love it if I could everyone else to understand. Bless you Michael
I have what you're looking for, only better. I have a version that goes up to the 226th digit (in pi base 12) played in the 12 tones. Come to my channel to hear it.
If you were to conceptualize mathematical constants as musical ratios, you wouldnt hear much out of sqrt 2 or pi, since they can be decently approximated. Thats why i like how the golden ratio sounds like the most. If you actually play two notes that have the golden ratio as the ratio between their frequencies, it will sound horrible, because phi cant be approximated well with simple integer ratios. You can stack multiple phi's that way and get an interval that sounds not much better than an iron nail scraping a car window.
Pi isn't random, though. It's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It's a very specific, if irrational, infinite non-repeating number.
I legitimately memorized these 31 digits from this song. Then I continued the same mapping technique (with the addition of B=0, since the 32nd digit is a 0!) and extended my reach to 51 digits. I intend to do more in the future.
I never heard of pi before so when my bro told me about it I thought he meant pie so I gots hungry so I ate some pie and put whipped cream on it in shape of pi symbol BTW good song and could you make a song with a lot of math stuff in it BTW (again) I learned wut math was 2 weeks ago BTW (for last time) im home schooled by my bro
Highly misleading. Anybody can mash random white notes and it'll sound melodious since it is Cmaj. You could take any arbitrary random sequence of numbers and using this system you could say it was somehow "profound". No it isn't.
funnycatsvid Even better, express Pi in a base-12 numerical system (3.184809493B9186...) and use the chromatic 12-note scale ;-) Played through a General Instrument AY-3-8912 chip for total 8-bitness, naturally.
Alex Klas Indeed. No new unique ground is being broken here. If a meaningful algorithm for deriving timing, note length and pitch were used, we could perhaps interpret something more useful here....especially given that the length of Pi is infinite. Since there is an infinitely diverse (yet repeatable) feed information to put into this algorithm, one could use Pi in base-x where x represents the total combinations of all note timings/lengths/pitches (or whatever attributes you wanted to include). 12 note, 4 note length and 4 timings would be 12x4x4=base-192 for example. I am not really into mathematics that heavily, but the scope for making this idea more profound is there. Far moreso than has been done here.
Vincent Oostelbos Sure it doesn't need to be profound, however the point is that the music is only arbitrarily derived from Pi. Played differently it could sound not-as-nice. It's about as relevant to Pi as any other random number sequence really.
Beyla Martin When I found this out several years ago, this was tough on me. I think I consider it disease of some sort, some form of improper listening functions of the soul to the mind/body complex. Be well and blessings
Cool video, but you can definitely tell it's just a random set of notes, at least musically. If you just play the piano version by itself and stretch pi out to, say, 100 decimal points, there's no organization to the notes...just totally random.
My question is why did he use C Major? Why not a minor key? I guess C major would be the most widely understood key, but I would like to hear this done in a minor key. Starting on "3" of the major key would essentially be phrygian, but it ends up feeling very Mixolydian to me for some reason. Very neat idea, I love human creativity.
So you could do all that... or use pi base 12 and play it in all 12 tones. I did that, and the video is on my channel. There are no words for the beauty...
that is the amazing part of it. because pi hasn't got a rythem at all. this human just took the notes in the order, and made the rythem himself. there could by an infinant amount of rythems that these notes could be played with. The only thing now is. How and Who is willing to do it?
they didnt really add rythim to the notes did they. they just play the notes one after the other. they did add rhythm to the overall track but thats all.
This doesn't make much sense and I can see why people call it random. The decimal system is our invention and there's nothing special about it. Google "Pi in different number bases". And if you want to see some approaches to connecting music and math that make more sense, google "music and mathematics".
This was good sounding, but sadly it missed the fundamental point that pi doesn't need to be reinterpreted into a decimal only interpretation on a power scale like the spacing between keyboard notes. It's an intrinsic part of the entire idea of sound and there are far more amazingly simple (and physically more beautiful) ways to show how this amazing constant is part of our every day life.
It would be interesting to hear what Pi 'sounds' like when it is expressed in different bases (for example, Base 12) than our own Base 10 number system. If there is a special pattern or sound to it all, that might suggest that there is some kind of 'natural' number base in the universe. And _that_ would be quite provocative.
like a great hipster, you successfully made pi sound like everything else. no difference between this and any other uniform hipster garbage you hear in an overpriced Williamsburg Artisanal Coffee Bean Purveyor.
I see you do not comprehend what he's actually doing. Turning numbers into music in this way is complex, considering how good it is right now I'm actually kind of impatient to see how good it is going to be when this spreads.
Bear Phantame its not very complex what are u talking about... this can be done with any kind of random sequence of numbers,, this just happens to be the decimals of pie... everything he does is using 8 out of the 11 fundamental notes(here already its like ok wtf), with a random rythm, and playing it on different instruments lol. "comprehend what he is actually doing" like if that wasnt insulting as hell lol. there is no logic in what he is doing, becuase if this were to be held as some sort of beautiful work i would literally laugh att all of u...and i already kind of am. sry if the english isnt too good atm im tired as hell
P. he.R Ah, I see where the perception difference lies. This is how I see this piece: Incomplete. This is not a composition made to top a chart or become a song, this is the debut of musical translation from a numerical base. First I'll address the 'random' question, despite it not being directed toward me. It's not random because it follows a predictable path, every single beat was from start to beginning the numbers of pi in order. Now back to it. This is complex not because it is hard to do, but because of the countless ways in which this can be evolved upon. This is more than him simply putting numbers into art, this is the possibility of fusing numbers and art together. You could literally comprehend a mathematical equation through music and in the same regard have a comprehension for numbers through music. In that alone, the applications are there for all to see. For those with differing processes and input quirks, this could help the lives of thousands. Use a little imagination man, see what -could- be done with this and not what is being done with it right now. Of course it's basic, this is something extremely new. And just like all things new and incomplete it's not for the originator to bring it out in its full form and beauty, that's for those whom were inspired by the original piece to do.
I would like to see this using pitch class sets, and see how It would sound, 0 being C and B being 11, I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty anymore, but who knows.
The best method of making music out of math constants is using base 12. I made an arrangement out of pi base 12 in the 12 tones and it will take your breath away. It sounds like the digits of pi were chosen by a composer, infinitely long ago. The video is on my channel.
also, on the spirit of how's life going 10 years after, maybe this "Life in a Day" 10+ would get you inspired to make us a song representing how have you been, or Idk, how log basis 10 sounds like... :-p anyhow, thank you! cheers! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vcsSc2iksC0.html
@@stochastichaos6471 thanks for sending this, love it. I've moved from math to poetry. Here's my latest: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fjv3AOnAHf4.html
What I'm saying is that any number will sound "correct" when set in major and minor scales because those notes are always correct within themselves. Convert these numbers into base12 and try to make those sound correct. They're much more interesting. You have to ~interpret~ them in the ~chromatic~ scale and find the chords that make the melody sound correct. I can make any base10 number sound good in a major or minor scale with a 1,4,5 or some other equivalent catchy bass line.
They will sound so similar it won't matter. A wall of sound in C major is the same as a wall in sound in A minor. Whatever scale you pick that has 7 notes in it, major or minor, will give the same effect. It will just have different bass notes in it. My point is that the single note melodies themselves sound random and the notes have no direction or context with each other. How different will pi sound from the square root of 11 as a song?
Hi everyone, you may know that this video was taken down temporarily, based on a copyright infringement claim by Lars Erickson. I'm glad to say the video has been restored and while I fundamentally disagree with Mr. Erickson's claim, I hold no feelings of ill will towards Mr. Erickson. In fact, if you liked my Pi song, you should check out his Pi Symphony. Michael John Blake
Happy Pi Day to all! many 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591... to you
meh, it would be more impressive if the numbers corresponded to chromatic notes rather than a major scale. alas, this video is viral enough that it'll probably rake in some money. guess that's what it's all about, really!
Hey guys! Here's my take on the topic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LUSV2zYYq-o.html "36 pieces of pie" is a solo for handdrum, using the first 36 digits of pi as its musical material. Enjoy!
I made a parody of this video. It's on my channel. Watch it to the end to hear what pi base12 set in the chromatic scale (all 12 tones) sounds like. It makes perfect sense and it's absolutely beautiful.
Dude, that was wonderful! Very touching, because it proves how beautiful and perfect the math can be, and math really makes part of everything on Universe.
You are correct. I made a parody of this video. It's on my channel. I state the same point... and show the world what Pi really sounds like... in BASE 12. Be amazed.
Most music is based on a 12 tone system. Convert pi into base 12 and assign the 12 digits to the 12 tones. Oh.... I already did that. The video is on my channel.
As long as it is a base 10 number, in a major or minor scale, all these songs will sound the same... like jamming. I made a parody video that explains why.
log10(pi) = 0.497149872694134 (very close to ½ !) 0.5-0.497149872694134 = 0.002850127305866 (the difference between log10(pi) and ½) 1/0.002850127305866 = 350.861520445717 350/10 = 35 (the music in the video uses 32 decimals (including the 3 before the comma), so maybe this is why pi sounds good in music with base 10 ?)
A great video for PI DAY 2015! Yes, next year we will be celebrating *3/14/15 9: 26* [a.m. & p.m]. Facebook has a few pages for it. [search for the bold numbers ;-) ]
After reviewing your video on geometric Pi, I think you may find this information on mathematically calculating the accurate value of geometric Pi interesting. The mathematical proof of the accurate value of Pi is: applying the equation, "inverse sin delta theta radians = Pi x theta degrees/6y" where: 1. delta theta is 1/12 of 2 x Pi radians; 2. theta degrees is 1/12 of 360 degrees = 30 degrees 3. and 'y' is 0.5. When the value of Pi = 3.141592654 is applied to this equation, inverse sin 0.523598778 = 3.141592654 x 30 degrees/(6 x 0.5) 31.57396133 degrees = 94.24777961 degrees/3 31.57396133 degrees = 31.415926654 degrees the left hand side of the equation is not equal to the right hand side. Now when Pi is three (3.0), note the answer: inverse sin 0.5 = 3.0 x 30/(6 x 0.5) 30 degrees = 90/3 30 degrees = 30 degrees the left hand side of the equation IS EQUAL to the right hand side. This demonstrates that Pi is 3.0. It is also interesting to note that above equation is precisely accurate at 1/12 of the circle at exactly 30 degrees. This information is written a book that explains and proves mathematically; and through a series of "real" life experiments that Pi is equal to three (3.0). The name of the book is "The Great Design Integration of the Cosmic, Atomic, Darmic (Dark Matter) Systems - VOLUME I GEOMETRIC Pi". You can download the PDF version of this book for FREE at www.thegreatdesignbook.com. The book consists of seven (7) volumes, and Volume I focuses on GEOMETRIC Pi.
If you want another slice of Pi, feel free to check out my true musical tale about stumbling upon the sacred ratio as a boy - and getting it stuck in my head forever! :D Talking Pi by David C Perry
GREAT!! GREAT!!! GREAT!!! IS REAL!!! PI HIDES THE VERY BEST SOUNDS. I HAD MADE SOME ETUDES ABOUT GENERATING SONGS FROM THE NUMBER PI TOO (USING ONLY PI "NOTES")... AND I NOTED THE CAPACITY OF SOBREPOSITIONS OF NOTES, GENERATING GREATS HARMONIES. GOOD JOB. SO GOOD JOB!!!
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Hi Mr.Blake I am a music teacher in "School for Mentally Handicapped" in Bodrum, Turkiye. Could you give permission to us for using this music as background music in our school's non-commercial promotional film please? If you want, we will write your name in that film as a support to our children. We really hope you will support our children with your music. Regards Tolga ÇALIŞKAN
