Listening to Sequences in
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Background
For a long time I have had the idea that it would be interesting
to be able to "hear" some of the sequences in the
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
The main goal in this project is to
discover properties of sequences by listening to them.
If the results are also pleasing to the ear (and sometimes they are),
this is an extra bonus.
Of course the idea of converting number sequences to music
has a very long history.
The only new idea here is that
now we have a large database of sequences to call on.
Resources on the Web
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By far the most useful site I have found is
Jonathan Middleton's
Musical Algorithms web site.
Jonathan Middleton is working with us to try to establish direct
links from the OEIS to his site.
Eventually we are planning to have a "listen"
button next to the "graph" button on replies from the OEIS
search pages
which will feed the selected sequence directly to the
web site.
Until that is established,
the Listen to a sequence page
is a temporary interface with the
web site,
to enable people to experiment
with listening to sequences.
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Lutz Büch (webmaster(AT)lutz-buech.de) has a program called modZart (pronounced "Mozart" of course)
which among other things can play sequences
from the OEIS.
The executable file
can be downloaded
here.
The program is written in Delphi
and only runs on Windows machines.
At present the interface is only in German.
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Casey Mongoven has many compositions based on number sequences on his
home page.
Incidentally, you can meet him at the
OEIS 100K E-party Page.
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Rob Kauffmann
has produced some scary-sounding compositions based on fractals,
such as his Cantor Fugues and Sierpinski Fugues. He uses Garage Band.
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There are several other items to be added here. To be continued.
Last revised Jun 02 2006
Neil Sloane (njasloane@gmail.com)
