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Pi
Oct 5, 2005 9:10:05 GMT
Post by Lori on Oct 5, 2005 9:10:05 GMT
Sweet and gentle and sensitive man With an obsessive nature and deep fascination For numbersAnd a complete infatuation with the calculation Of PI
Oh he love, he love, he love He does love his numbers And they run, they run, they run him In a great big circle In a circle of infinity 3.1415926535 8979323846 264 338 3279
Oh he does, he does, he does He does love his numbers And they run, they run, they run him In a great big circleIn a circle of infinity But he must, he must, he must Put a number to it 50288419 716939937510 582319749 44 59230781 6406286208 821 4808651 32
Oh he love, he love, he love He does love his numbers And they run, they run, they run him In a great big circleIn a circle of infinity 82306647 0938446095 505 8223...
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Pi
Oct 7, 2005 19:45:41 GMT
Post by matanchik on Oct 7, 2005 19:45:41 GMT
i read in some other forum that it's going to be kate simply counting the number Pi, like 0.314... etc. not sure about that at all though
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Paul
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Pi
Oct 12, 2005 0:39:27 GMT
Post by Paul on Oct 12, 2005 0:39:27 GMT
i read in some other forum that it's going to be kate simply counting the number Pi, like 0.314... etc. not sure about that at all though I read that in 'The Sun' but they are probably making out to sound more odder than it actually is... (Is Odder a real word?)
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Pi
Oct 12, 2005 1:13:11 GMT
Post by Adey on Oct 12, 2005 1:13:11 GMT
Yes - but "more odd" is sufficient, in the context of your sentence.. Given the amount of speculation about it, I'm particularly looking forward to hearing this song..
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Max
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Pi
Nov 1, 2005 12:43:06 GMT
Post by Max on Nov 1, 2005 12:43:06 GMT
I listened to the first play of this track on Radio 2 and I found Kate's comments really interesting, so I thought I would transcribe her words for anyone who didn't get to hear it.
I really liked the challenge of singing numbers as opposed to words because numbers are so unemotional as a lyric to sing and it was really fascinating to sing that trying to put an emotional element into singing about a seven, y’know, to really care about that nine… I find numbers fascinating, I mean the whole idea that almost anything can be broken down into numbers is a fascinating things and I think, also, we are completely surrounded by numbers in a way that we weren’t twenty, thirty years ago. We’re all walking around with mobile phones and numbers on our foreheads almost, like computers. I suppose I find it fascinating that there are people who actually spend their lives trying to formulate pi, the idea of this number that is, in a way, possibly something that could go on to infinity and yet, people are trying to pin it down, put their mark on it and make it theirs in a way, I guess. Also, I think there are a lot of connections with maths and music because of patterns and shapes.
Max
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Pi
Nov 1, 2005 12:46:25 GMT
Post by Adey on Nov 1, 2005 12:46:25 GMT
Thanks for taking the trouble Max.
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Pi
Nov 22, 2005 3:02:19 GMT
Post by Barbarella on Nov 22, 2005 3:02:19 GMT
I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but does this song kind of move in circles to anyone? It has an interesting circular, spiraling sound to me. Very soothing and odd. err....maybe I'm just wonky though....aye, that could be it
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Pi
Nov 26, 2005 18:47:55 GMT
Post by Xanadu on Nov 26, 2005 18:47:55 GMT
I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but does this song kind of move in circles to anyone? It has an interesting circular, spiraling sound to me. Very soothing and odd. I also have noticed that and find it hypnotic. I had an unusual experience the morning after I first heard Aerial. There was an interesting passage in a novel I am reading, and I felt an immediate connection with the author, the character and Kate's concept. The our vaguely melancholy and enigmatic main character is discussing his days at Cambridge after WWI: "I've been in these rooms before - often. Fellow with the disarming name of Pal had them in my time.... mathematician - genius in his own line - wonder what he's doing now?... Used to say he felt algebra emotionally - told me once he couldn't read the Binomial Theorem without tears coming into his eyes - the whole concept, he said, was so shatteringly beautiful.... Wish I could have got into his world, somehow or other. And there are other worlds, too - wish sometimes I could get into any of them - out of my own." Needless to say... it was a chilling moment for me, and I think of it everytime I hear Pi.
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Sheila
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Pi
Nov 26, 2005 19:44:09 GMT
Post by Sheila on Nov 26, 2005 19:44:09 GMT
I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but does this song kind of move in circles to anyone? It has an interesting circular, spiraling sound to me. Very soothing and odd. I also have noticed that and find it hypnotic. I had an unusual experience the morning after I first heard Aerial. There was an interesting passage in a novel I am reading, and I felt an immediate connection with the author, the character and Kate's concept. The our vaguely melancholy and enigmatic main character is discussing his days at Cambridge after WWI: "I've been in these rooms before - often. Fellow with the disarming name of Pal had them in my time.... mathematician - genius in his own line - wonder what he's doing now?... Used to say he felt algebra emotionally - told me once he couldn't read the Binomial Theorem without tears coming into his eyes - the whole concept, he said, was so shatteringly beautiful.... Wish I could have got into his world, somehow or other. And there are other worlds, too - wish sometimes I could get into any of them - out of my own." Needless to say... it was a chilling moment for me, and I think of it everytime I hear Pi. BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING INDEED!! I personally knew a guy who, while studying for an advanced algebra test, got whisked off to a mental hospital because he discovered the meaning of life algebraically. My attitude towards math is X=my high school math teacher's lipstick marks on my buttocks. (2 plus 2??? Where's my calculator?) But am fascinated by people like this as is that character in the book you were reading Xan. This is my favorite track on this disc. Amazing, that Kate could do the seemingly impossible---IE: write a song I love yet refuse to learn the lyrics to. I try to sing along. "Threeeeeeeeeeeeeeee point 14" okay, yeah, I'm outta here.
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Pi
Nov 27, 2005 7:06:44 GMT
Post by ragnar on Nov 27, 2005 7:06:44 GMT
Well, Pi is the Reason why I've got better marks in Maths When I heard this "wonder" the first time, I was "just fascinated"...It's wonderful ! Mesmerizing !
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Pi
Jan 19, 2006 12:15:50 GMT
Post by simpleton on Jan 19, 2006 12:15:50 GMT
Great song, and very soon we will be able to distinguish the real Kate fan by asking them to recite the first 100 or so digits of Pi. (With one exeption of someone who refuses to sing along after the .14 )
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Sven Golly
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Pi
Feb 12, 2006 6:22:51 GMT
Post by Sven Golly on Feb 12, 2006 6:22:51 GMT
There are no digits in pie unless you find a finger in the mince-meat. However, in "Pi" I had assumed that the editing or melody would dictate a mistake or two in the sequences. The point of the song remains intact.
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Sheila
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Pi
Feb 12, 2006 11:04:14 GMT
Post by Sheila on Feb 12, 2006 11:04:14 GMT
There are no digits in pie unless you find a finger in the mince-meat. ROFLMAO!!!!!! Am I the only one who read this and truly gets all the joke? It's a pretty obscure joke even among Kate fans...
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Sheila
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Pi
Feb 12, 2006 11:09:09 GMT
Post by Sheila on Feb 12, 2006 11:09:09 GMT
Great song, and very soon we will be able to distinguish the real Kate fan by asking them to recite the first 100 or so digits of Pi. (With one exeption of someone who refuses to sing along after the .14 ) Um, yeah that would be me. Kate has done what I consider the impossible: she has written a song I refuse to learn the lyrics to! Kate is the Goddess, but calculating pi to 115 numbers---too much for even HER to ask of me.
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Pi
Feb 12, 2006 14:27:25 GMT
Post by Adey on Feb 12, 2006 14:27:25 GMT
There are no digits in pie unless you find a finger in the mince-meat. ROFLMAO!!!!!! Am I the only one who read this and truly gets all the joke? It's a pretty obscure joke even among Kate fans... A torturous pun entirely understood As for singing along with the numbers, no never. If I sing at all, it's on the hook line "He does love his numbers, run him in a great big circle" bit.
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