Bits, bites and blurbs from Michael Cervieri.
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Creating the World’s Ugliest Music
Via TED:
Scott Rickard set out to do what no musician has ever tried — to make the world’s ugliest piece of music. At TEDxMIA, he discusses the math and science behind creating a piece of music devoid of any pattern.
And via Slashdot:
He used mathematics of Évariste Galois (who was born 200 years ago) to create pattern-free sonar pings which he mapped to notes on a piano, and then played them using the non-rhythm of a Golomb Ruler.
Happy Tau Day
Via the Atlantic Wire:
Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world: pi. These men and women of the “tau” are adamant that pi, the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle, should be replaced by tau, the circumference of a circle divided by the radius. They contend not that 3.14159265, the value of pi, is wrong, but that it’s the wrong number to associate with a circle because “circles are more naturally defined by their radius than diameter,” Michael Hartl, author of the Tau Manifesto, told CNN.
Some thoughts on the music of PI… and copyright.
