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Symphony No. 8 of Beethoven (use keyboard numbers):

908234092830498230948203984023­

984092384092834092384098230940­

293423129192837917823793128372

­891793821973821297897318297831

­293178239781292398409238409283­

409238409823094012972978312901­

782379312837289179382197382129­

789731829783129317823978129239­

840923840928340923840982309401­

297297831290178237931283728917

­938219738212978973182978312931­

782397812923984092384092834092­

384098230940129729783129098230

­940129729783129098230940129729­

783129098230940129729783129098­

23094012972978312555454



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.


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. ;-)


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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE


Can you post a recording to your interpretation of that? Press the red "record button" and you will get a link like this:

http://goo.gl/doodle/F4ih8




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