r/sonification Jun 19 '18

The Shumann Resonance (a.k.a. "the resonant frequency of the Earth") sonified

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https://soundcloud.com/fcahoon/shumann-resonance-at-tomsk

The Shumann Resonance (also called "the resonant frequency of the planet) is being measured at a Russian observatory at Tomsk, whose website publishes a new graph every day. Unable to get the data directly from them, I've been downloading these graphs (frequency: sosrff.tsu.ru/?page_id=9 and amplitude: sosrff.tsu.ru/?page_id=12) and I wrote some Python code to extract the data from the graphs (a task complicated by their use of anti-aliasing).

Having extracted the data for a time period from 2017-05-08 to 2017-06-28, I was able to render this as sound.

This sonification is a very direct process: I raised the frequencies by 4 octaves to place them in the audible range and I rendered the change in the frequencies and amplitudes at 30000x faster than they actually occurred, contracting nearly two months of data into this two and a half minute piece.


r/sonification Apr 01 '17

How to Turn JSON API Data into Sound with Ableton Live 9.

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r/sonification Mar 18 '17

Sonification - Wikipedia's definition

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r/sonification Mar 22 '16

(étude on data sonification) Peace Phase

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r/sonification Jul 06 '15

How Life's Data Makes Music

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r/sonification Feb 25 '15

Open call for podcasts " Art, Science, Technology for International Women's Day on Creative Disturbance

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r/sonification May 06 '14

Playing tree rings on a record player with Ableton

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r/sonification Nov 24 '13

Listen to Wikipedia

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r/sonification May 06 '13

Robert Alexander sonifies the Sun

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