{"id":2668,"date":"2011-03-10T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:31:39","slug":"the-sound-of-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-sound-of-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wK7tq7L0N8E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wK7tq7L0N8E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A musician named Michael John Blake has taken the holy grail of mathematics \u2014 Pi \u2014 and transformed it into music.\u00a0He stresses that his song is an  artistic interpretation, not an exact, scientific rendering.\u00a0Proceeding  from the notion that numbers can be represented by musical notes on a  piano, Blake used 31 decimal points of Pi to make a complex melody. I\u2019d love to know how long it took  him to create this.<\/p>\n<p>In the above video,  watch as Blake plays the melody of Pi on numerous musical instruments,  including piano, banjo, accordion, guitar, xylophone, autoharp, and  more, and mixes them together to create sweet, sweet music. Or is it  math?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A musician named Michael John Blake has taken the holy grail of mathematics \u2014 Pi \u2014 and transformed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}