Surely the rests are not human determined. I suspect they correspond to the digit zero. The transcribers chose to use the scale of F. I guess mathematicians are in some ways very much like people. We have our own myths, rituals and superstitions with our pi-dolatry. Surely pi- music will be musically indistinguishable from sqrt[2]-music or the music of any random sequence of digits. If this should turn out to be false maybe I too will become a pi worshipper. dg At 10:41 PM 4/28/2007, you wrote:

I can't decide if it's the F major drone in the accompaniment or the (human determined?) rests that makes this so musical:

http://www.tomdukich.com/math%20pi%20piano%20keyboard.html

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