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I've traded several emails with Lars looking for his side of the story. He claims to not be opposed to people creating pi music, but objects that Michael Blake has used a similar coding (C = 1, D = 2, E = 3, etc. (my god, the simplest coding you can do)) and included chord codings also (C major = 1, D major = 2, etc. (ummm... not so hard either)). In Blake's video, he describes the encoding, and the chord encoding also, and Lars thinks that this is a direct rip-off of his video.
We had a good conversation until I asked why he thought Blake's composition was so similar to his, when they are not only structured differently, sound different, and presented differently. I asked what Blake had done to tick him off. I've gotten no reply. I can really only conclude that Lars has an inflated view of his own work, and this is perhaps tinged with jealously that Blake's became rapidly popular, landing him spots on NPR and millions of YouTube hits. Here's Blake's killer version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQb_mtkEEE Lars' video he claims Blake copied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNlaxpD0zY You can compare!
Vi Hart's response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtLSLCJKHE&feature=relat...