You may recall the sound of Pi or the sound Tau, two inspirational videos created and composed by Michael John Blake to musically translate the mathematical result of both. Now, just in time for Phi day Blake has released his video for Phi, the golden ratio. Phi, to put it in numbers, is: Phi = φ = 1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772... and so on.
Phi has been used in musical composition, in art (Dali used the golden ratio in his piece "The Sacrament of the Last Supper"), architecture, math and of course in nature. Well, it's less used in nature than found in nature. To translate into exact musical form, Blake used the first 39 digits of Phi and set the tempo at 161.8 BPM. It is a beautifully composed and shot video that gives math an endearing soundtrack.
From the YouTube page:
"What Phi (the golden ratio) Sounds Like" is a musical interpretation of the mathematical constant Phi. The formula I use to translate the digits of Phi into music is as follows:
1 = C
2 = D
3 = E
4 = F
5 = G
6 = A
7 = B
8 = C octave
9 = D octave
0 = no note is played
Music by Michael John Blake
Video by Amos John Lanka
