How wary we are of something warm and unborn. Something calmly by zero will divide (Unbegotten, The Somnambulist)

Some time ago, I assumed the mission to draw a plot for the cover of the new album of The Somnambulist, a music band from Berlin. They wanted a circlization of Pi, which is a graphic where numbers are represented in a circular layout. The idea is connecting each digit of Pi to its successive digit with links to the position of the numerically corresponding external sectors. I used a color palette composed by 10 nuances of the visible spectrum as a tribute for Planck, as Marco (the vocalist) requested me. After a number of attempts:

The album is named Unbegotten, a german word which means archaic. As Marco told me, in theology it also means kind of eternal because of being never born and so never dying. I like how π is integrated into the title to substitute the string “tt” in the middle. Pi is also eternal so the association is genuine.

The music of The Somnambulist is intense, dark and powerful and is waiting for you here to listen it. My favorite song is the one that gives name to the album.

If you want to know more about circlizong numbers, you can visit this post, where you also can see the code I used as starting point to do this plot.