If it smells like pie and tastes like pie… and even sounds like pi???

There’s a fantastic online experiment going on now that seeks to create music from the first 10,000 numbers of pi. But it’s interactive. Which means that the first note you pick will be played when the number 1 crops up, the second note you pick will be 2, and so on.

My choice of notes wound up dark and minor enough that the result sounded like a less professional riff of the soundtrack to “There Will Be Blood“‘s blood-pressure raising march of minor notes and strings. It’s a bit rushed (after all there are 10K notes to run through) but the fun part is that you can vary and repeat it as much as possible. I’m now going back to come up with some nice pretty high notes to play pi: I’m thinking triangles, and song birds, and the noise of sunshine instead of dark and roily mining story in California.