Someone somewhere in the world has been quoted as saying that maths is music to their ears. If that person is you, then you’ll be pleased as pi to know that musician and YouTube user Michael Blake has composed a melody involving Tau.
Tau is approximately 6.28, so twice as large as pi, and Blake created his amazing music video in praise of it. He applies the numbers one through nine to all the notes in the major scale, and then applies the major, minor, and diminished chords that correspond to those notes — whatever that means, musical maths isn’t my strong point. The video explains it much better and sounds absolutely wonderful. In What Tau Sounds Like, Blake plays the piano, xylophone, guitar, banjo, violin, accordion, and other instruments to create a musical interpretation of Tau to 126 decimal places. Check it out below.
[via Nick de Bruyne on Twitter]