Ragnar Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/supergrandmatales324/pi-mp3 probably been done before but whatever I took like the first 200 digits of pi and assigned a sample to each number. So like, 3 triggers sample 3 etc. the samples are from some LIVE ANALOGUE JAM on freesound not mine http://soundcloud.com/supergrandmatales324/pi2-mp3 tried to expand it by deriving other non-repeating numbers from pi. I dunno if it's any better though oh yeah the story behind it is probably more interesting. I thought of that guy who sees pi as psychedelic lisa frank/bryce landscapes and that's why he's so good at memorizing the digits of pi. So I thought I'll try something like that by assigning each number a sound and see if it's possible to memorize it better somehow/see if it sounds not so random/like musical code or something. Also something about sounds creating soundscapes/more than the sum of their parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 I still wonder about that shit like is the lisa frank landscape thing just an artifact of extra brain activity/stimulation or is it just that you can apply that information by living your whole life with it/more abstraction to work off of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arc2 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 This is a really interesting idea. I wanted to hear a beat drop during the first version. I think it wouldn't degrade the purity of the experiment, and it could have a nice groove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 I uh made a python script to kind of 'decode' the digits into a diagram of the drum hits and note values, I might mess around with decoding pi with some more interesting rules. I'm probably in way over my head though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 a really interesting idea. some suggestions if you don't mind, why not just have the melody be the samples and have a pad underneath it all. and add a little rhythm to the samples too. instead of them just playing on the beat. thats what i would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arc2 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 You could have it loop eight digits twice, then move on to loop the next eight digits, creating kind of a melodic rhythm to it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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