December 23, 2004

The sound of no repeating pattern.

Posted by apostropher

Step One: Assign musical notes to the ten single-digit integers.
Step Two: Play the first 10,000 digits of pi.
Step Three: Profit.

I listened to this for much longer than it probably deserved.

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There's supposed to be 6 notes or so that, played in any order with a nice C, F, G chord progression, will sound really bluesy. I think I got most of them, and got a nice boogie-woogie sound.

Posted by: John Johnson at December 23, 2004 05:54 PM
2

D minor scale with the 7th before the tonic and the 2d after the octave put me in a trance. Start low.

Thank you, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Posted by: froz gobo at December 23, 2004 11:07 PM
3

E minor 9, or E minor 7 with an added 2d, however you want to look at, works well. Use both octaves and put the third on the top. There seem to be a lot of 1,2 combinations, so if you put the 2d (or ninth, since it's a 7th chord) on integer 2, the E minor tonality is clear, but with a cool dissonance.

Posted by: shoveldog at December 23, 2004 11:28 PM
4

Nice. And putting the third up an octave, establishing the minor mode on a high note, qualifies the melancholy in an interesting way. Digit 8 comes kind of late in pi and I used the third with that digit to draw out the inconclusivity.

I'm much fonder of d, though; aeolian (I think - b6 AND b7). It's my favorite key.

Posted by: froz gobo at December 24, 2004 03:00 AM
5

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Russ. And a fair amount of liberal debauchery, just for the fun of it.

Posted by: Kevin Hayden at December 24, 2004 05:53 AM
6

Try opening two windows of this, and playing both at once...

Posted by: plasmastate at December 27, 2004 10:12 PM
7

Holy "come out to show them."

Posted by: Tripp at January 1, 2005 03:05 PM
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