To answer Warren's question from 2 days ago: basically all the OEIS algorithm does to sonify a sequence is to reduce the terms mod 88 to a note on the grand piano keyboard. You then get to adjust how the midi file is played, but "read mod 88" is the basic step. This is very primitive and I wish we had something better. The only kind of rating we have for how the "music" sounds is that there is a keyword "hear" that has been added to some sequences that someone has thought are worth listening to There is also the keyword "look" for those that have remarkable graphs Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
My theory of "what music is" is described here in the too-long and too-short versions respectively:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3507527/MusicTh.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3507527/MusicThShort.html
Re furthering the understanding of that whole question, it might be interesting to know which OEIS sequences sound the best & worst when converted to music. (And I do not know the method you use to convert them to music. Presumably many conversion methods are possible.) If you had a music-quality-rating for each, generated by OEIS users, then eventually we'd know that. (It also is possible some people might like while others dislike some music, e.g. the whole distribution of ratings on an 0-9 scale might be good to keep, not just its mean.)
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