# This describes the process by which I composed "Irrational Thoughts",
# using the digits of pi.
#
# Overview: I obtained a file with 100,000 digits of pi, and wrote
# a program in KeyKit which read it and used the individual digits
# (in a variety of ways) to drive an algorithm that generated a MIDI file.
# I used this to control an Access Virus synth for the sound-making,
# and used Sonar for recording, effects, and mixing.
# 
# Algorithm: piscan() scans the digits of pi and uses them
# to determine all note attributes (pitch, duration, etc).
# piscan() also uses the digits pi to selectively repeat sub-sections
# of the generated result.  piscan() is used 6 times (with
# starting-offsets controlled by the digits of pi), and the results were
# overlaid.  The first 5 digits of pi were used to control transposing
# of 5 sections of the piece.
#
# Source code: see irrational.k
#
# Tim Thompson - tjt-microsound@nosuch.com