Pi as Music (C-major pentatonic) - π to 996 decimal places
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2015
- 996 decimal places of pi applied to the C-major pentatonic scale.
Sounds pretty good actually :D
Sheet music: web.mjk-server.de/files/PImpro...
(accompaniment slightly altert to be playable)
Best moments:
07:33 - 627
09:00 - 761 (Feynman Point)
10:47 - 933 - เพลง
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Holy shit, thanks for 1 million views! Never thought this video would explode like this…
Being honest, I don't think there will be a second part. I just can't find the right style/algorithm, it ends up either too boring/disharmonic or too similar to this one.
Adding more constraints (like applying a "box blur" on the number sequence) would solve these problems, but that also lessens the purity of the number-to-music-transformation and therefore contradicts the whole point of the video.
First (unless TH-cam is lagging, which it probably is).
I found this in my recommendation and I’m glad I found it!
amazing!
Have you tried something bluesy? Like this video: th-cam.com/video/EazScG6wn84/w-d-xo.html
Hey, the "purity" and all doesn't compare to the actual song. I love how you did it, so using these blurs and such wouldn't mind me and many others.
Friend: What music are you into?
Me: its complicated..
It's a bit _irrational_
i'm into 3,141
Gotta love me some 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884
@@loganwiseley4313 a 3 minute old comment on a 1+ year old video, nice, also cool that you out effort into that lol
@@j.i.m2099 Thanks, i was hoping to get like 7 likes but im not complaining
Since pi is theorerically infinite, that means that somewhere in pi... lies boss music
pi: why do I hear boss music
Very underrated comment. If only there were more intellectuals.
@@pointlesssentience3987 the normality of pi is unknown. it has been tested up to a buttload of digits and the results look normal, and it is widely suspected to be normal, but there is no way to tell if these results will hold up infinitely.
@@ovnimoss pi: why am i boss music
Infinite boss musics’s
Anonymous: So what's your taste in music?
Me: Pi
Anon: No, as in what music do you listen to?
Me: *_Pi_*
Your comment changes when I click on it
@@emiilysheils5030 🤔🤔🤔
@@emiilysheils5030 TH-cam glitches lol
l
PEE
Patrick: Is pi an instrument?
Squidward: No Patrick pi is not an instrument.
Challenge accepted.
LFMAO
Mission accomplished good days work
Challenge completed
😂
but.. hes not.. using the number to play music..
Guess you could say music composition is easy as pi
heh, heh.
I see what you did there...
Renee Sherbahn EEEEEY
[●▲●]
So, not easy at all.
Renee Sherbahn Ha! I hate you..
When Pi has more talents than you
Its only what you make out of your life and situration!
Wntxer Cxll I hate myself
*titanic theme plays*
Life of Pi. have you watch that movie? im sure Pi is better than you guys
Pi gets all your girls
This should be the end credits music in a biopic about some famous mathematician
This should have been the credits for the movie _Pi_
Or the end credits music for this universe. Then at the very end of the credits, it says, "A very special thanks to Pi. Without you, this universe wouldn't have been possible."
169 likes NOICE
@@thisisahumanlol8255 damn, I hadn't even noticed
yup thats going to my music playlist
edit: oh it’s 11 minutes long
Ecliptical - omg literally me 😂
@Takoda Tousey Too bad... I've already passed this point of no return.
this isn't going to your music playlist
this *IS* your music playlist
What are you talking about? Long songs are some of the best songs.
Suppers ready.
The Musical Box
Echoes.
Karn Evil 9.
In A Gadda Da Vida.
2112.
Close to the Edge.
Just to name a few. I love long songs personally.
@Takoda Tousey no?
just goes to show you can play anything with the pentatonic scale and it sounds fine...
Elvin Meng sadly that's true
But it ends up being boring as fuck
Math teacher: And what is the value for Pi?
Me: *plays this video*
Ad'xiel they dont know the value of pi they get close but will always be far
ad'xiel the value of pi is infinite
The exact value is 22/7
Brian Kristofer Perez Actually it’s not, there are proofs, that pi is irrational which means it cannot be written as a fraction of any kind.
@@abyssmage6979 Actually it is not, pi is 3.14159265359... while 22/7 is 3.14285714286...22/7 is used so the calculating is easier but it never can be near perfection
Nobody:
2015-
Video uploaded
2019-
TH-cam: let's put this in recommendations
yeah, it ended up in mine.
I put this into my TH-cam music playlist like three years ago for some dumb a$$ reason
Bruh
@@CrayfishCraig I'm not the only one!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!???
Here in 2020 because of this!
*God of Maths talking to pi* : How many numbers would you like?
*Pi* : Yes.
*Humans* : why is pi so infinite
*Pi* : instructions unclear
Does pi contain all the numbers?
Or does pi only contain ten different numbers? As in zero through nine?
Or does pi only contain 3 whole numbers? As in 3.14...
Or does Pi contain no numbers? What are numbers? Are we numbers? Are you numbers?
“Numbers” is one of those words that turn meaningless really quickly if you say it too much.
Let's be honest, with this set up, any list of random numbers would sound just as good.
True. They should make a series - tau next!
hey my badger friend OwO
Dancing Badger hi!
Sush
Yeah but pi is a cool number witch makes the song cool:)
"Can you tell me 996 decimals plaves of pi?"
"Sure thing. Just hand me my piano real quick"
pi-ano
The scary thing is that it kinda sounds good...
You could say nature has many melodies hidden inside itself...
And that is also scary...
It sounds good because of the "algorythym" used, he used the numbers from 1 to 9 Assigning them one note of the C major pentatonic scale, he also puts a c major chord progression. It doesn't work for the forces of nature
Greetings from Chile
Pentatonic scales always sound ok despite the sequence
Ties Wellhüner Lol how is it scary xD I find it cool and pretty amusing
No, the melody is everything. Without it it would be chaotic
When you watch the whole video to look for 69420
www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi
@@michael120. Found it! At position 15773 after the decimal (excluding the 3 *before* the decimal)!
1:14
69405
you can search for it in www.angio.net/pi/
the sequence 69420 appears 2030 times in the first 200 milion digits of pi
the first appearence is in the 15773rd place
EDIT: oof someone said it before me
Man this is awsome!
Sirdavitian Thanks! :)
Only background song is good and its not pi i guess
mm
Sirdavitian I
Sirdavitian ur rad
As a nerd, I am impressed.
OrangeC7 you shouldn't be impressed though.. it's not amazing or something special about pi, with this set up, any list of numbers would sound equally good.
I would be even more impressed with Tau if that's what you're saying.
OrangeC7 Tau would sound just as good, because this setup makes *any* list of random numbers sound decent
Sure, once you have the program created, any variables you input will sound ok, but it's actually creating this type of program that's difficult
why do i feel like you should be put on r/iamverysmart
I knew it! Pie not only tastes amazing, but now pi sounds amazing as well.
if pi is infinite..
that means...
_SOVIET ANTHEM WOULD BE IN THERE AT SOME POINT_
Communist number detected !!
Finally somebody understands the concept of infinity.... infinity will always include the USSR anthem, whatever that infinity may be.
no it’s pentatonic meaning only 5 notes
U are right, but it's and algorithm that uses pentatonic so no. If there are no rules, our anthem would be there.
well then it could be a severely screwed up version
Nice Pi-ano
brandon estrada :)
God damn it! You just hit my Nito bone.
Only Dark Souls fans will get that ;)
Ano in Italian means Anus 😂
haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 111111111 nice one
Giacomo De Vito In Chile too :v
Quite beautiful and awkward-sounding at the same time. It reminds me of someone who can sing but doesn’t feel very comfortable doing it. XD
~ Louise
So it reminds you of me
Keznen so, Pi is shy... oh my.
Keznen you mean me, right?
Why'd you fucking sign your name to a comment haha
@Dreadkid 집돌이 Keznen is a group account.
What kind of music do you like?
Me: I like pi.
That wasn’t my question.
Me: No, I answered it. My favorite kind of music is pi.
Can you say that again I thought I heard you say pie?
Me: Yep
Oh...
when you’re doing your math homework in band
7:33 9:00 10:47 best moments
9999999999999999
Leeeeeel
Well you're gonna have a bunch of repeats of your favourite parts considering the fact that Pi is infinte.. Dum deee dum..
y U copy off desc
jk its fine lol
me: yo pass the aux cord
friend: you better not play trash
me:
*plays an infinite song, so they can never get the aux cord back*
IT's not trash, its pi :)
So what did you do today.
I listened to π
"Pi equals 3.14
The devil pie's big enough to justify the whole thing"
I don't get it
I love the Feynman point part (@8:56) XD
⑨ ⑨ ⑨ ⑨ ⑨ ⑨8
*Ends with 420* oh ok
haha nice
daveAn no pi doesn’t end
Brighttz R/wooooosh
@@brighttz5424 r/woooosh
But what if he really dont get the joke
That 9 streak at around 770 was cool (and if I ever memorize pi into the hundreds, that's where I'm stopping). And I loved the 9-less streak around 900 (the high note was almost beginning to sound to ding-y). Love this. Thank you.
The 9 streak smashed me in the face with music and math, so hot
Played this while doing math homework
CHEATING
How to calm down before a math test
Does anyone else think they can almost hear a pattern?
PI ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE PATTERNS.
Human mind is very efficient in finding patterns. So efficient actually that it can create them out of thin air.
***09*** always broke it up for me nicely. Almost Like the end of a stanza or whatever
That's because it's in a pentatonic scale.
Schner1 Maybe it's the background music
Yeah........ that's strange
it ends at 420. 👏
👌
😂
🤠
42 is the answer
👍
Holy shiz its actially decent music and even probably without the background music
49999998 sounded great 8:99
Edit: lol I meant 8:59
Walle031106 PC
Did you really think a minute has 100 seconds xD?
Agreed, best part
I agree! That's one of the best parts of the song!
Nicely done. It's impressive how you got the fixed chord accompaniment to sound "right" regardless of what the random melody line is doing.
That’s the beauty of the pentatonic scale. If you played in A minor the same effect would be had but the music would sound like blues.
Yes! That’s amazing!
Scales are fixed for a reason my dude
Those aren't just random numbers. There's a hypotetis which suggests that in number pi there're included all of our universes' informations, we just have to uncode them properly...
Łukasz Tokarski 😂
Still better than despacito
Sounds like a really catchy broadway song. I love it
Last three numbers were 420. Just felt like putting that out there.
pi is pretty dank bro like chaaaaa
Dude, spoilers
Dude, you poiled the song
Your profile pic explains why you posted this in it's entirety
Now do the Golden Ration, cause that will be the best song ever. Cause, y'know, golden ratio.
The golden ration? but seriously he/she/they need to do that.
It's amazing how, since this sequence is infinite, all our favorite piano songs are contained into pi at some point.
Welcome to another episode offff.......
Why is this in my recommended but I still love it 😍
Holy shit the amount of hosts are insane
as I hit the 5 minute mark I wondered to myself if I was really gonna watch it all?
edit: yes. best 11 minutes of my life
Zanna Ortiz This is damn catchy though, ain't it?
Commander Shepard but any note on the pentatonic scale put into a rhythm sounds good... I agree though. Damn Catchy
Here ya go, a perfect 100
The solo never repeats... Think about it...
there is a website where you can type your birthday and i can be found in PI actually :) VSauce mentioned that site if i remember correctly but not sure in which movie
Phill, is it proven?
That some combination can be found infinite amount of times in decimal places of pi. It has to be proven to be a mathematical fact. It can't be fact just because somebody thinks so.
Top 2 answears say that it "seems quite likely" and "π is not known to have this property, but it is expected to be true" and this Wikipedia article is about random numbers so it just prooves that you can't tell if your theory is true.
Well, that's not what infinity is. If we had a number that for example look like: 0,012345678900112233445566778899000111222... etc. it would "have" infinite amount of numbers but it wouldn't contain all the combinations. You can easily make other more complex examples. Sorry, but you don't seem to be very good in abstract thinking. And punctuation.
literally no one:
TH-cam recommended: *_Pi as Music_*
I can't believe that I listened to the whole thing...
Oh, you want to use _C = 2πr_ to find the circumference of a circle? *Let me play you the song of my people.*
I'm pretending I didn't cringe
im pretending i didnt PogChamp
When your math teacher is also your music teacher.
It's that time again when you think that everything has been tried and it's not interesting, but here it is.
Original and new.
I think π is slowly becoming my favorite music genre.
In high school, I learned that the 360th decimal place of pi is 360. I only know this because my math teacher told me about it and also had the number pi written all along the top of the room. And there it was, 360 in the 360th decimal place.
p.s.
The 999999 at 8:59 caught me off guard and made me laugh.
Tim Ferguson, 4:40 - indeed, 360 int 360th place...
WTF? 👀
You can’t have more than one digit in the 360th decimal place😂
the diddler, if the decimal were moved 360 spots to the right the number you would get would end with 360 though, pause the video and go to 4:40
Naj Renchelf yes I understand this, but that doesn’t not mean that the 360th place is 360. The 360th place is 0.
and 1 is 1st
Very enjoyable. What enables it to work is the harmonization. Hearing the melody alone would sound pretty random. This is less of a criticism and more of a kudos to your good harmonization.
BranRitt the harmonization is a basic I vi IV V in C major. The reason it sounds okay is because any note on the major pentatonic scale will sound okay with any chords diatonic to the key.
somebody: what music are you listening to?
me: well...
Somewhere in pi is the tune for song, every meme, and all possible musical compositions...
Not in this way, hed have to assign combinations of numbers to all 12 notes, and it would most likely sound like a schoenberg piece at first, but yhea then it would definitely be there!
The accompaniment really helps it, it'd sound a bit weird alone I think, really cool though I like it!
it would sound like a crying donkey...
4:39 the number 360 is after 360 numbers
Lol..
The zero in 360 is the 360th digit. So if it came after, 360 would include the 361st, 362nd and the 363rd digits. So... You’re wrong... On a Math video. I hate to be negative, but it’s all I can do.
Xander Reed To clarify, I meant after 360 numbers have been counted, the last three numbers make up 360. I didn't mean after the digit place 360 the number was 360.
that's y a circle has 360 degrees...i suppose
Valeck Seimu
So Pi doesn't seem to be that random after all. Maybe we will also find the amount of corners of the circle somewhere among the digits.
math is indeed a form of art...
ive had this video in a playlist with a single other video since middle school. i remember walking between classes playing it in my headphones, its cheery upbeat randomness being the main thing keeping me going throughout the day. its one of my fondest memories of school in general. recently i looked through the playlists i had, and stumbled across said playlist once more. im 18 now, ive been out of school for a year, and yet this song has once again become a go-to for a small burst of motivation and energy that is sorely needed after this whole pandemic and the rest of the chaos thats ensued. this is basically the only song with no lyrics that can cheer me up from the bad moods i didnt even know i had. even after all these years, im still here lurking and listening to this masterpiece. what compelled me to write this? i dont know. maybe the fact that its 6 am and i havent slept? point is, im glad this video is still up, its been very helpful surprisingly :}
This shows how powerful the right scale is for improvisation. You can hit random notes of the scale (Pi is pretty random as far as we know, but no proof!) and it will still sound good
in deed... just do some c major chord progression like G, D, C and play random C maj pentatonic stuff and it will sound like something.. even if it's THAT random :D
That comment made me think... Wouldnt the Golden Ratio sound muuch more nice or interessting because it has the highest irrationality?
Oh, would love to hear fibonacci sequence!
It's because it's pentatonic, otherwise it would sound even more random.
Music teacher: what song do you play?
Me: pi
pi as a music (megaloviana starts)
Nah
Pi is infinite so if you changed how this song worked, you might get a snippet or maybe the whole song.
Oh no....
MATH IS MUSIC
Or is music math? :D
Technically music is math since math is the most basic form of science and since without science we cannot explain how music is just vibrations in the air that create noise to our ears.
Math is music. Don't believe me research it or learn to count the beat or learn to read music.
Math is the language of the nature. Music is the human language only
Music is a natural manifestation in our heads, and math is our way of describing natural phenomena (along with science for a humanized understanding, but in reality it all basically boils down to math. science tells us how to apply the math, and a lot of math still yet is involved in figuring that out).
Although with a pentatonic scale you can make NEARLY ANYTHING sound good.
ANYTHING.
SHOW ME SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS BAD WITH A PENTATONIC SCALE! I DARE YOU!
And I also bet that you can't really do the same type of thing with really any other type of scale other than an arpeggio, which is cheating since its like a continued I chord.
Rom From Russia ну, я могу поспорить, ведь музыка - это особое природное явление, и не только человек выражается в музыке, но и природа в целом. Правда, человек вправе сам для себя решать, чтó есть музыка именно для него. Иной человек не найдёт музыки в возгласах кукушки, а иной умудрится уловить музыкальные нотки даже в каркании вороны. Тут роль играет и то, в каком смысле, с какой стороны берётся понятие музыки, как человек понимает музыку, в широком смысле или узком.
I was searching for sad music, not for endless happyness
I hate/love you so much right now
Transpose this to A minor. There is your sad music.
HapPIness get it ? no ok I'm gonna go
happy pi day two days ago
genius... even still after 4 years... genius...
Wow!!! I’m just like staring at the screen for the whole video!!! My eyeballs were bulging out of their sockets looking at all the numbers!! FANTASTIC video by far! BRAVO!!!!!!!!
now it tastes good and sounds good
*sees this*
*patd mode activated*
*IF IT FEELS GOOD, TASTES GOOD*
ahhhhhhhhhh good one
Qwerty Top It also looks good imo. The pi symbol to me looks cool.
Tastes? Wut?
NetroAlex He meant a PIE, get it?
Favorite part is at approx 735 digits. 77477. So melodic
lol same second fav part is the 6 consecutive nines shortly after
+Riley Bowers same
Da da di da di
8:45
9:00 the six nines
Found my new study mix for my math final
O M G. This is so amazing!
Is math related to music?
Totally
Music is physics and physics is math.
Is math related to science?
Science is math and math is music.
William Roche "does Bruno Mars is gay?"
The followup video to this one (about the number _e_ ) is about half way done. It's a bit different but better imo.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time on my hands at the moment so it'll take a while before I finally post it.
If you want to be sure not to miss it, consider subscribing. I promise there won't be any other video before that one ;)
Look in the description for sheet music.
randomly stumbled upon this, looking forward the e-piano (or the p-e-ano as some say)
do you have the sheet music for this?
YourMJK what's determining the length of each note? Did you randomly assign a note to each number?
the number right after defines the length of a note (that's explained in the beginning of the video?)
Can't wait for that. Still won't subscribe though
That's base 10 specific, try going for a more natural base and have the numbers represent frequencies!
Great video nonetheless.
EDIT: I have an idea that I'll probably program when I have the time to do so.
Note frequency = [Middle C frequency] + 2 ^ ((1/12) * digit in base 12 or 13)
@NamedKitten Neither am I, but I would set 0 as the frequency of middle C and every digit above it with a higher frequency - not in a linear way, but rather as the previous frequency times the 12th root of 2.
@@bip901 what programs do you think would work or help enable constructing the notes together?
@@k27ism I think programming is the way to go. Even a simple C# Console Application can play notes of a given frequency.
@@k27ism I found a website that'll save the need to calculate pi in different bases yourself:
turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/pi/pibases.html
nerds
I just found this and I love it so much. I don’t know why but every time I listen to it, it just brightens my day. I wish I could download this somewhere and listen to it any time
You can, there's a lot of online video downloaders, just type yt to mp3 or mp4
How is Pi good background music?!?!
try listening to it while doing math and i bet it'll get angering. but thats what i've turned it into too
Happy Pi day, and RIP Stephen.
This song is infinite and never repeats itself
Send this on a spacecraft to an alien race, let them figure it out. Would be an otherworldly joke
It might even get trhough, since math is more or less universal.
I feel like the rhythm is really important
This actually sounds like a pretty lovely and happy tune :P
that's the work of the I-VII-IV-V chord progression
Deathmaxter it’s very upbeat
Deathmaxter it's normal this tune is ha-pi !!!
This is really amazing and beautiful. Thanks for sharing, and the sheet music too!
*When you say piano is easy as pi but pi is better at piano*
9:00
999999
Perfection.
Gonna email to my maths teacher on pi day
Autisti-comet my birthday was on pi day and Stephen Hawkings died that day. Your welcome for your daily dose of d e p r e s s i o n !
Mimi Marie March 12-14th
It’s 3 days to celebrate math and my birthday is on the 2nd day of that.
Mimi Marie March 14th, the reason is the first 3 digits of pi are 3.14 and if you imagine that as a date you would get 3/14 which is March 14th.
What did your teacher think?
I wanted to design a program like this once, but I imagine it never would have come out as awesome as this was. Bravo to you, sir.
=pi tangpi:n)n
I feel like this has been playing in my head ever since I learned about Pi, and I'm just now noticing it.
Old man: this generation is so dumb with their dumb music
Me:
Others : What music do you listen to?
Me, an intelectual : hold my phone
"I can recite Pi to the 996th place!"
YourMJK: "Hold my beer."
The 258th and the 259th numbers are my favourite
Eva Slyva nice
the number appears earlier in 41st and 42nd digit
Its a pi-ano
Man im hungry,what should i watch
Pi isnt a number its music
Hey man a new song came out. *oh yeah whats it called?* its called 3.1415926535... _infinity later_ *hey i forgot the name can you say jt again?*
TheBaconBros Are you high?
TheBaconBros why does this have 0 context
n00bie because its a pun com-pi-lation it doesnt need context
TheBaconBros u missed it this time -
It's a com-pi-lation !
Requaero Remaneo it's spelled this way you uncultured swine: *comπlation*
That's easy, the pentatonic scale always sounds well, btw the notes you play will sound good
But this has a lot of work and you have my like :)
Yes indeed. Some people say that math kills music here because it sounds nice, but the musical logic of the pentatonic scale is used, not the mathematical logic of pi
i cant articulate quite how long i've been looking for this
this was one of the first 10 videos i ever liked on youtube
this was awesome bro!! good luck on any other projects!
The song that never ends awesome.
We should send this shit to space to contact happy dancing aliens from the Broadway Nebula
quidpronihilo i know it's not real, but now i wish i lived in the broadway nebula that sounds friggin amazing
quidpronihilo y e s
XD that supposed to be a happy alien
Creativity at its peak!
Great piece of work
Never knew Pi could sound so beautiful.