Bar & Line

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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,

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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