CMU School of Drama


Friday, March 14, 2025

Play Us a Song, 𝝅-ano Man

News - Carnegie Mellon University: How does a piece of pi sound? Inside Carnegie Mellon University’s Vlahakis Recording Studio , Evan O’Dorney plays a peaceful, thoughtful melody on a Steinway B piano. Embellished notes stick out, a code containing the first 97 digits a fundamental constant in mathematics — pi.

1 comment:

Lydia J said...

As someone who has always loved music/art and math, this is something I can certainly appreciate. I honestly feel like this is something I would do.
I like Pi. 3.14159265358979323. I'm ashamed to say that that's all I've memorized. I totally could memorize more and I'm sure I will, but unfortunately I was never in a Pi memorizing competition. I would've won. My brother had one, and they would give all the kids a printed out sheet of paper with 100 digits of pi, and whoever memorized the most by the end of the day would win pi or something like that.
I like that it was acknowledged around campus, I had some pie myself. But I certainly feel like CMU could have done a pi day event or something like that, especially since yesterday was a Friday. It would've been the perfect day. Anyways, beautiful piano piece. I really am glad they included a recording.