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In 1998, several artists from Warp Records collaborated on the soundtrack of the film π – The Theorem of Delirium (Pi) by Darren Aronofsky.

9:13 a.m., personal note. When I was little, my mother used to tell me never to stare directly at the sun, but once, at the age of six, I did. The doctors didn’t know whether my eyes would recover. I was terrified. I was alone in all that darkness. Gradually, the light began to filter through the bandages and I regained my sight, but something inside me had changed, and the migraines began.

12:45 p.m., statement of theories.
First: nature speaks through mathematics.
Second: everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
Third: if you graph any numerical system, a pattern emerges; therefore, patterns exist everywhere in nature.

In one of the film’s final scenes, the brilliant mathematician protagonist of π , exhausted and desperate to free himself from unbearable migraines, stands before a mirror holding a Bosch GMB 62 drill.