I come from an art and science background. I love to paint just as much as I love to program. I was bored one day and programmed something that would translate market data into music via mathematics and a midi piano. I expected it to sound like junk, but it actually sounded like a great composition.
I basically went through a bunch of procedures to turn the market data into binary units that corresponded to different notes based on momentum and volume information. Then I fed it end-of-day data for major stocks, along with intraday data.
End-of-day data sounded more linear and Beethoven'ish, while the intraday data sounded a lot like Mozart on LSD.
What surprised me was that the music sounded like a competition and not some monkey banging random notes on a piano -- I took this same principle and listened to Euler's constant and Pi and they, too, had some form of composition. I then ran a random number generator through it, and it sounded much different than any of the previous examples -- which confirms my initial suspicions that all these systems are not random, but can be interpretted in ways that are not always intuitive to the human mind.
We concentrate so much on using certain senses to view the world that we sometimes forget that data can be interpolated into other forms that we intuitively know from observation that they are not "random" in nature but follow chaotic systems that, somehow, our brain can listen or watch and understand.
You could take a reverse proposition and break down a Picasso painting into binary digits (like what is stored on your hard-drive) and then graph this binary information onto a graph were each 0 makes it go up and each 1 makes it go down. Will the graph look like the stock-market? If it does, then you know that there is some system that may convert the data we see from the stock-market into a more meaningful form.
Blaaah
aphie
I basically went through a bunch of procedures to turn the market data into binary units that corresponded to different notes based on momentum and volume information. Then I fed it end-of-day data for major stocks, along with intraday data.
End-of-day data sounded more linear and Beethoven'ish, while the intraday data sounded a lot like Mozart on LSD.
What surprised me was that the music sounded like a competition and not some monkey banging random notes on a piano -- I took this same principle and listened to Euler's constant and Pi and they, too, had some form of composition. I then ran a random number generator through it, and it sounded much different than any of the previous examples -- which confirms my initial suspicions that all these systems are not random, but can be interpretted in ways that are not always intuitive to the human mind.
We concentrate so much on using certain senses to view the world that we sometimes forget that data can be interpolated into other forms that we intuitively know from observation that they are not "random" in nature but follow chaotic systems that, somehow, our brain can listen or watch and understand.
You could take a reverse proposition and break down a Picasso painting into binary digits (like what is stored on your hard-drive) and then graph this binary information onto a graph were each 0 makes it go up and each 1 makes it go down. Will the graph look like the stock-market? If it does, then you know that there is some system that may convert the data we see from the stock-market into a more meaningful form.
Blaaah
aphie
