What Tau Sounds Like

fincsdev Says:

Apr 15, 2012 - I would very much like to have the score to this. It is awesome!

ThePianist2396 Says:

Apr 17, 2012 - Math is so beautiful O:

Gantzer1 Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - because your brain whether you think so or not is acutally addicted to mathmatics and all music follows mathamatical formulae... except beiber.

UFOria212 Says:

Apr 21, 2012 - well, it sounds "pretty" because they're in a major scale (no accidentals/black keys). There isn't much dissonance(half-step intervals) that arises from that except B(Maj 7) & C(Tonic), and E(Maj 3rd) & F(P4th) which still sound good to the ears. However....if you decided to include ALL the notes, including accidentals/black keys (1,2,3,4,5=C,C#,D,D#,E etc.), then you'd get some pretty nasty/harsh sounds. Modern composers have experimented with using numbers in music for quite a while.

UFOria212 Says:

Apr 21, 2012 - Post cont... The composers that come to mind are Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. These guys really aren't that popular because they're music is a little "out" there, to say the least. BTW, sorry for this long post, music nerd with too much free time & a lot of trivial information :-)

Gabrielabc42 Says:

Apr 21, 2012 - music is beautiful. Tau is almost random!

Gabrielabc42 Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - great, someone understands that math constants have nothing to do with music!

Redbuffalos Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - Is that.... a bowed psaltery?

nifedonkey3 Says:

Apr 24, 2012 - On T.V they were talking about how math is music.

fsujs Says:

Apr 25, 2012 - Is there any instrument you don't own/know how to play?

Uvisir Says:

Apr 27, 2012 - music is math, but this could also be jammed and improvised without the knowledge of the math behind it, but its still math if you choose to see it that way.

bluedan82 Says:

Apr 27, 2012 - do phi!!! 

SolidAuditore1337 Says:

May 1, 2012 - They already did dumbass

salkfishman Says:

May 2, 2012 - I think you misinterpreted phi as pi.

MyLaundryStinks Says:

May 3, 2012 - I could probably fall asleep to this every night and not feel bad about it at all.

frankjohnson123 Says:

May 4, 2012 - Music is a construct of man. τ is the ratio of the two fundamental measurements of the fundamental shape, the circle.

Gabrielabc42 Says:

May 4, 2012 - Exactly, with the right scale, made by the man, it is almost impossible to make a bad song. Now try to assign Tau with frequency in hertz or something like that and you will hear an horrible noise.

frankjohnson123 Says:

May 4, 2012 - I think you're missing the point a bit. Music is beautiful to us because it is made by people for people, and we have an idea of what we like. The Moonlight Sonata is an incredible and haunting piece, but that's because it was crafted by a genius. τ is beautiful because it is everywhere in nature or, more specifically, mathematics. It may not sound pretty to us, but the sound of a river is also less appealing to most than a fine piece of music.

NonexistentFlower Says:

May 8, 2012 - But the τ-ists say that π is wrong! Does that make τ twice as wrong?

MagusMirificus Says:

May 9, 2012 - Reminds me Yann Tiersen...and that's high praise.Quebec Antique is awesome, too. You guys need to make more albums.

Jotunn54 Says:

May 10, 2012 - Someone has probably already said this but michaeljohnblake should do a musical interpretation of Euler's number, 2.71828... or Phi, 1.618...

VicRmr Says:

May 11, 2012 - Tau sounds more like a romantic ballad compared to Pi

Udragon034 Says:

May 21, 2012 - you should convert tau to 8 base (as 8 notes in major scale), or better convert to base 12 (as 6 tons in an octave). then start from 440Hz A and move on. that's fair music.

ArielJonathan Says:

May 21, 2012 - A little history here! Levenshtein decided that Tau was better than Pi (of course it's possible to decide that!) when his friend Shrödinger played piano on a Shoninger. True story! Here is the proof:levenshtein('schrödinger', 'shoninger', 628, 314, 0) = levenshtein('schrödinger', 'shoninger', 314, 628, 0) = 628(costs in order: insertion, replacement, deletion for the sceptics) ;)

BionicDirector117 Says:

May 22, 2012 - This proves that math isn't boring!