π
guest artists:
Lando "Pi" Wolters: third text sentence, big-muffed guitar
Klaas Giesbertz: horn
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This is a recording of the first 42 bars of my infinitely long, yet never repeating composition, generated with a python script, aptly named pi.py, driven by the decimal representation of π. The bass line follows the digits of π, each number mapped to a note. The melody does the same, but now there is also a rhythm to it. The lyrics are hand crafted, the beginning being the physicist's way to remember the first 15 digits. With the full text you can now remember 73 digits!
Sadly the composition π can never be performed as a whole.
The Big Muff pedals used in the recording.
Download mp3
Download Score of the first 1000 bars (excluding the four rhythm parts)
Download Score of the first 1000 bars (including the four rhythm parts)
Download A bit of explanation
Download the generating script pi.py, which produces input for the lilypond musical typesetting program