This got me curious: what does pi sound like? And the answer is that it's actually surprisingly tonal. The opening "31415" firmly establishes the key, and thereafter there's sonorous intervals to keep everything fairly well-behaved; the few out-of-place notes can be dealt with by an appropriate sort of rhythym. If you're gonna try it I recommend it as far as:
31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
So that you get a nice 5-1 ending.
Re:Permanent home for Les Paul Google Logo
by evanrmurphy on Saturday June 11, 2011 @07:49PM
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Really cool concept. :)
Doesn't every sequence of numbers sound fairly tonal on the Les Paul logo though, since it's restricted to diatonic pitches?
Exactly.
And if you assigned the numbers to the blues scale degrees, it would sound very bluesy. ;-)
Re:Permanent home for Les Paul Google Logo
by nostrademons on Saturday June 11, 2011 @07:45PM
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Pi actually reminds me a bit of "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma variations. The opening is only one note off, and then many of the later sequences in pi have the same large jumps that Nimrod does.
Can you post a recording to your interpretation of that? Press the red "record button" and you will get a link like this:
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293423129192837917823793128372
891793821973821297897318297831
293178239781292398409238409283
409238409823094012972978312901
782379312837289179382197382129
789731829783129317823978129239
840923840928340923840982309401
297297831290178237931283728917
938219738212978973182978312931
782397812923984092384092834092
384098230940129729783129098230
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783129098230940129729783129098
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