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Monthnotes April 2025

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. A big highlight of this past month for me was running a workshop called "how to do creative work in

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Monthnotes March 2025

Hello friends. My name is Duncan and you're reading "Hello From Duncan" - a newsletter that rounds up my creative input and output every month. You're getting it because you signed up for it, and you can unsubscribe at any time with the link

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On Standby

When we sleep, our electronic devices lie awake. Our fridges, our freezers, our phone chargers, our boilers, our televisions and more, are all consuming energy - sometimes just a trickle, and sometimes a flood. Even in standby mode, most gadgets still consume small amounts of power. Unlike humans and other

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Monthnotes February 2025

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The last few weeks have mostly been about queueing up work for the rest of the year, and wrapping up a

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Monthnotes January 2025

I don't think I've got too much that I've published in the last month to share, because I've spent most of it on holiday and firmly in "input" mode. So this is very much an input newsletter. One housekeeping note

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Monthnotes: December 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. On Standby is out! My 10-hour-long experiment with sonification and radio documentary and sound art has been released, and you can

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Monthnotes: November 2024

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. You might be pleased to hear that there's no politics in this one. It's a bad

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Monthnotes: October 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. In my last monthnotes I was talking about The Carrington Event - the data-driven post-rock composition that I've just

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The Carrington Event

We've just released a new Loud Numbers data sonification project. It's an immersive audiovisual experience, representing data collected in 1859 during the Carrington Event - the strongest solar geomagnetic storm in recorded history. Telegraph stations caught fire and auroras were sighted as far south as the

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Monthnotes: September 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of my recent creative inputs and outputs. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It's been a little while since I wrote, I know. I didn't send a newsletter in August because I thought

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Monthnotes: July 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I'm on holiday! I promised myself this year that I'd take a full month off work in

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Monthnotes: June 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Things are pretty busy right now. I've somehow got myself into a situation where I'm delivering six

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Monthnotes: May 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. On Friday, it's the opening of Nature's Harmony - an immersive exhibition in Helsingborg that my sonification

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Monthnotes: April 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Biggest news of the last month from me is the release of a new episode of my Loud Numbers data sonification

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Monthnotes: March 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've been talking about putting together a live sonification show for a while, and finally I'm putting

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Monthnotes: February 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Over the last month I've been working with Jordan Wirfs-Brock and Jamie Perera on a manifesto for a thing

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Monthnotes: January 2024

Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Some housekeeping to start the new year. For the last few years I've been publishing these articles every ten

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Tenday Notes 21 November - 30 November 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Big policy win in the UK last week, as the Advertising Standards Authority banned an SUV advert from Toyota on

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Tenday Notes 1 November - 20 November 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Things have been busy lately, which is great but a little draining. The most notable bit of work I'

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Impactful Community Leader

Today, I won the Impactful Community Leader prize at the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards! I am so happy about this because I really believe in the importance of community. It's why I put so much energy into things like Elevate, Decibels, and this very blog. I was

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Tenday Notes 11 October - 20 October 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Earlier this year I did a bunch of data analysis and visualization work for Possible on a project looking at

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Tenday Notes 1 October - 10 October 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It's been a while since I had an article published, but datajournalism.com asked me a few months

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Tenday Notes 21 August - 30 September 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The reason why it's been about six weeks since you last heard from me is threefold. First, because

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Tenday Notes 11 August - 20 August 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I spent last weekend in Stockholm. My first visit to the capital in probably five years or so. It hasn’

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Tenday Notes 1 August - 10 August 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Thanks to the many of you who sent me kind messages last week about (a) my new website, and (b)