Friday, March 14, 2025
Play Us a Song, đ -ano Man
News - Carnegie Mellon University: How does a piece of pi sound?
Inside Carnegie Mellon Universityâs Vlahakis Recording Studio
, Evan OâDorney 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 â pi.
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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.
I stopped on this article because I saw the title was đ -ano Man and I thought that it was going to about the integration of Pi and Billy Joels music somehow but I was pleasantly surprised to find otherwise. Growing up I loved Billy Joel, I remember his voice ringing out through the halls of our house and as I have gotten older I have learned to appreciate more of his lyrics. To this day he is one of my top artists, and his music is kind of a comfort to me at this point. I also have a lot of really great memories singing his songs, specifically Piano Man at parties or just random intervals with friends. However, I thought this article was really interesting and I loved listening to the music that resulted. It is such a fascinating Idea to set PI to music. The piece is honestly just beautiful, I was not sure what to expect when I clicked on it but I am kind of in love with it.
I've always liked the concept of infinity! I am not particularly good a t math, but the only part of math that I find particularly interesting and engaging would be fractals and infinity. So i love that this person also appreciates infinity and pi! I wonder how they were able to compose something on piano with using just the digits of pi. Or was it inspired by pi? This reminds me of the saying that if you are good at math, you'll be good at music and vice versa. I also wonder why that is, could it be that math brains just help with conprehdning and understanding music? There are so many different reasins it could be. I also love the clever wordplay of the title. Pi-ano man makes a lot of sense. I love that the article went into depth and also interviewed the student who came up with this because it is important to hear from the people that come up with great ideas like this one.
I think this is super cool. I love combining math and art and this is such a clever way to do it. OâDorneyâs description of why math intrigues him is genuinely gorgeous and also super relatable. Math in itself is art, itâs a language. Its fundamentals have existed forever, it has always been true, but we have just given it a medium for us to understand it. Music is a universal language. As mentioned in the interview, musicians come from any discipline. I love that everyoneâs background in music is different, yet the love for it is the same. It is cross-cultural and defies language barriers. Every culture you look at has music. Itâs not always in the same language that you speak or using instruments that you know, but it is objectively music. This goes for dancing as well. There is just something so human about the urge to dance and sing.
The phonominum of the number pi is such an interesting world wide phenomenon that everyone has at least heard of. Making the connection of such a famous number to music specifically as a memorization tactic is a feat within itself and shows the connection between the entertainment industry and technical mathematics. We spend a lot of our time trying to defy expectations and in so defying physics. We are bound to the constraints of our world and to pull off the crazy feats that we want to see on the stage we need to understand the laws of mathematics. This then allows us to blow the audience away in a safe and realistic manner. Music and mathematics fit together perfectly and the piece created according to piâs everlasting sequence is a testament to that relationship. Overall I find this article interesting and wish I could have seen this composition performed live.
It is gorgeous, the intersection of science and art. Oftentimes I find myself wondering if there even is a divide in the first place. The song was very beautiful and made me think about the nature of statistics in art and math. Combined with the existence of the six 9âs that happen way earlier than expected is a curious thing. I have seen other systems like this, more recently than what he had composed, and I really like the sustained notes throughout. The connection between science and art is so close and such a cool inspiration to tap into. Seeing my classmates make things out of fibonacci spirals and utilizing how oil and water donât mix but swirl instead. Science museums and their glory of color and experience makes those museums some of the most fun I have been to. The way fabric patterns can be math and math can make patterns is such a cool coexistence that borders on being one in the same.
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