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The First and Last Digits of Pi

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The Wallace Product - Three Is a Sea and One, Four, Three, Four

The piece is ar the multiplie serial works of stockhausen and bulles from the mid twentieth century. So there's a lot going on under the hood here. It's not just, you know, three is a sea and oneyeslyo. And actually at the very limit, the way we've encoted the digits, as we've mapped em on to the seas of the piano. But two cs are not playable. So these are interpreted as rests. There will be some notes that fall outside of the register of the instrument. And therefore you hear, you hear silence because the pianist is at a loss.

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