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Tenday Notes 11 May - 20 May 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 May - 20 May 2022

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. As you read this, I'll be setting out for a trip back to the UK to attend a wedding and see a bunch of

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Duncan Geere May 20, 2022 • 7 min read
Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2022

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. Over the last few months I've been working on a report showing that of the 50-odd sustainability pledges made by the airline industry over

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Duncan Geere May 10, 2022 • 6 min read
Tenday Notes 21 Apr - 30 Apr 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Apr - 30 Apr 2022

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. Who had April 2022 on their bingo card as the month I left social media? If so, you're a winner. I've been barely present

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Duncan Geere Apr 30, 2022 • 6 min read
Tenday Notes 11 Apr - 20 Apr 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Apr - 20 Apr 2022

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. My biggest creative input over the last ten days has been hiking Kullaleden - a four-day trail along the western coast of Skåne in

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Duncan Geere Apr 20, 2022 • 7 min read
Listening to the Atmosphere
Completed Work

Listening to the Atmosphere

I’ve built a small single-purpose Norns script that does one thing - emitting a tone with a pitch that represents the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The script is called “ppm”. ppmppm parts per million a single sine tone that reflects the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Duncan Geere Apr 20, 2022 • 2 min read
Tenday Notes 21 Mar - 10 Apr 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Mar - 10 Apr 2022

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've been feeling pretty burnt out lately, which is a consequence of having been fully-booked with work for the best part of six months.

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Duncan Geere Apr 10, 2022 • 11 min read
Tenday Notes 11 Mar - 20 Mar 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Mar - 20 Mar 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I'm coming to the end of a large project with Conservation International which has been eating up a lot

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Duncan Geere Mar 20, 2022 • 5 min read
Tenday Notes 21 Feb - 10 Mar 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Feb - 10 Mar 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Hello folks. A few public appearances to share first. The first episode of my data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers,

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Duncan Geere Mar 10, 2022 • 5 min read
Tenday Notes 11 Feb - 20 Feb 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Feb - 20 Feb 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Here's a nice bit of good news to kick things off today. My data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, got

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Duncan Geere Feb 20, 2022 • 5 min read
Tenday Notes 1 Feb - 10 Feb 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Feb - 10 Feb 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. It has been an output-light couple of weeks, at least in terms of "things to put in a newsletter"

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Duncan Geere Feb 12, 2022 • 5 min read
Tenday Notes 21 Jan - 31 Jan 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Jan - 31 Jan 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. This instalment is again on the shorter side due to my current workload. A freelancer telling you that "if

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Duncan Geere Jan 31, 2022 • 7 min read
Tenday Notes 11 Jan - 20 Jan 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Jan - 20 Jan 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Good news first today! I'm really happy to say that the launch of the Elevate learning community, with Alli

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Duncan Geere Jan 20, 2022 • 2 min read
Tenday Notes 1 January - 10 January 2022
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 January - 10 January 2022

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. First things first. For the last few months, I've been running a beta test of a paid membership program

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Duncan Geere Jan 10, 2022 • 5 min read
Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program
Dataviz

Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program

Today is the public launch of the Elevate Membership Program - a learning community for people interested in creative information design and data visualization. The doors are open, and you can sign up. Elevate Your Dataviz SkillsJoin us to access exclusive weekly articles and videos focused on practical data visualization

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Duncan Geere Jan 10, 2022 • 2 min read
Data Sonification on Norns
Experiments

Data Sonification on Norns

I've created a data sonification script for Norns, called Loud Numbers. Right now it turns .csv files into melodies, though I have ambitions for it to eventually turn many more kinds of data file into many more musical attributes, as well as outputting MIDI over USB and control voltages through

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Duncan Geere Jan 4, 2022 • 2 min read
Tenday Notes 1 Dec - 10 Dec 2021
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Dec - 10 Dec 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. It's that time of year when I start thinking about how I want the next year to go, and

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Duncan Geere Dec 10, 2021 • 5 min read
Tenday Notes 21 Nov - 30 Nov 2021
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Nov - 30 Nov 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Tomorrow, the first episode of my new pop-up newsletter will go out. It's called Signal Chain, and it's a

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Duncan Geere Nov 30, 2021 • 6 min read
Why I’m Opting Out of the NFT Gold Rush
Writing

Why I’m Opting Out of the NFT Gold Rush

This opinion piece was originally written for Music Hackspace. As a generative artist and musician, I’ve been seeing three letters pop up in my social media feeds with an increasing regularity over the last year. Those three letters are “N”, “F” and “T”. An NFT - which stands for

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Duncan Geere Nov 21, 2021 • 3 min read
Tenday Notes 11 Nov - 20 Nov 2021
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Nov - 20 Nov 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. The beta test of my data visualization membership programme, in collaboration with Alli Torban, Will Chase, and Gabrielle Merite,

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Duncan Geere Nov 20, 2021 • 6 min read
Climate Migration on Five Levels
Completed Work

Climate Migration on Five Levels

This was an interesting challenge - The Storythings team challenged me to explain the issue of climate migration for five different audiences -  a child, a teenager, a college student, a postgrad student, and an expert - in response to a short story by Australian indigenous writer Ellen van Neerven.

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Duncan Geere Nov 14, 2021 • 1 min read
Tenday Notes 1 Nov - 10 Nov 2021
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Nov - 10 Nov 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Last time I wrote to you, my "London Under the Microscope" collaboration with Valentina D'Efilippo was being exhibited in

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Duncan Geere Nov 9, 2021 • 7 min read
How Covid-19 has affected global carbon dioxide emissions
Dataviz

How Covid-19 has affected global carbon dioxide emissions

Thanks to The Guardian for the data and the full story. ‘Reality check’: Global CO2 emissions shooting back to record levelsFossil fuels are surging in post-pandemic recovery as scientists warn 1.5C emission limits will be reached in 11 yearsThe GuardianDamian Carrington

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Duncan Geere Nov 4, 2021 • 1 min read
London Under the Microscope
Sonification

London Under the Microscope

Earlier this year I created a sonification of London's Covid-19 data as part of Valentina D'Efilippo's beautiful "London Under the Microscope" animation. Now, the entire video is online - I recommend listening loud with headphones! Here's how it works. There are two melodic saw wave drones separated by an octave

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Duncan Geere Nov 1, 2021 • 2 min read
Putting Music on the Map
From the Archive

Putting Music on the Map

Our songs are trapped in time. They’re chronologically fixed. Even “Longplayer” — a piece of music written by Jem Finer that’s designed to last for one thousand years — has an ending. Why? What’s so great about time that music has to have a duration? I’m not saying

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Duncan Geere Oct 31, 2021 • 5 min read
Tenday Notes 21 Oct - 31 Oct 2021
Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Oct - 31 Oct 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I spent a little time this week busting out my pen plotter for the first time in what feels

  • Duncan Geere
Duncan Geere Oct 31, 2021 • 6 min read
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