If you arrange musical notes to form a circle of fifths and then rotate various polygons around the circle, letting its points trigger the notes, what does it sound like? Sometimes harmonious, sometimes melodic, but always an intriguing illustration of how music and math are much the same.
This might be a spoiler:
rotating a pentagon around a circle of fi…
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