There was for many years at the following URL
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html
a simple Java script that would "play" Pi one note at a time.
You could listen to the integers read, one at a time, in a number of languages. Or, you could set the numbers to various tones (including a those of a push-button phone). I don't know if the script is there any longer (the library computer I'm on at the moment appears not to have Java installed).
So, this is a rudimentary (but functional and interesting) example of a "composition" that uses Pi to produce music. Now, this Java script eventually would end, after however many thousand digits, but the problem isn't with generating the digits in Pi, because that is a simply formulation. I think the Java composition ended, in this particular case, just for memory and bandwidth concerns.
I found it emminently listenable -- it made good background music, especially with drone CD playing simultaneously, and I kept thinking that maybe I'd hear a pattern.
Marc
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Marc Weidenbaum
marc@disquiet.com
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:03:04 -0500, EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com> wrote:
quoted 16 lines is it? give me the algorithm for figuring out any set integer in pi
> >is it? give me the algorithm for figuring out any set integer in pi
> >without using google.
> >like, i want to know the 1,423,294th number of pi.
>
> I'm not saying *I* could do it, nor that it's easy to set up to solve
> specific problems. Just that it's easy to write something that could
> go on forever without repeating. I mean, you could do it as easy as
> "here's a 16 note sequence played on every quarter note. After
> you've played the 16th note, start over at the 2nd note. That is the
> new first note. The new 16th note is determined by the current
> second divided by 5" (5 because 60/5=12, 12 note scale etc.). So
> even slight repetition with random elements added would create an
> entirely new sequence that could conceivably be played "until the end
> of time" :D
>
> derek
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