Binary Beat + 3^n Beat

Niklas Roy, one of the inventors of the International Dance Party, created these videos as experiments in the music of numeral systems.

In the Binary Beat video above, a sequencer counts from 0 to 255 in binary [00000000 to 11111111]. Each bit has a sound sample attached to it, so when a digit is changed from 0 to 1, a sound is played: hihat, snare, kick, handcuff, organ or beep.



The next video, 3^n Beat, counts up from 0 to 728 in the ternary [base-3] numeral system. A sound plays when each trit [trinary digit] changes from a 1 to a 2.