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Africa's Nature Transition

Conservation International hired me to work on Africa's Nature Transition: A Roadmap for People, Nature and Climate - a report on how sub-Saharan Africa's ecosystems, if they're protected, managed and restored, can bring down emissions while supporting the people who live alongside them. It

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The Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions

For the best part of two years, on and off, I worked with Conservation International on the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions. It's an offshoot of the Exponential Roadmap report, focusing on nature - a guide to what we need to do on wild and working lands over

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The Seinfeld Chronicles

Two years ago, dataviz legend Andy Kirk got in touch with my data sonification studio Loud Numbers to ask if we'd work on a project for him about the TV show Seinfeld. It's now out in the wild: The Seinfeld Chronicles is a huge, data-driven

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Financial Symphony

Financial Symphony is a new piece from Loud Numbers, my data-to-music studio with Miriam Quick. It turns 11 years of business data into a four-minute piece of electroacoustic music for string quartet and electronics, and was commissioned by the accounting software company Sage. The story it tells

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>BLOOM<

>BLOOM< is an exploration of light, geometry, and sound, where the physical properties of objects become something greater, something that surrounds us all. It's an immersive installation made with my studio buddies Silfa Hüttner, Kotte Aistre, Simon David Rydén and Konstantine Fioretos, for the Sonic Citizens

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The Dial-a-View

The Dial-a-View is a live visuals system that I'm building to accompany ambient music. It lets you use a gamepad to scroll very, very slowly across satellite images of different parts of the world. You can drift in any compass direction, rotate, zoom in and out,

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The Impact of Dieselgate

ClientEarth, an international environmental law charity, hired me to develop a collection of data visualizations to show the impact of the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, where EU carmakers cheated emissions testing. The goal was to demonstrate to a general audience on social media the financial and human damage caused by the illegally

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Doing Creative Work in a Climate Crisis

In April 2025 I gave a workshop at STPLN, a creative hub here in Malmö. It was titled "Doing Creative Work in a Climate Crisis", and it outlined a bunch of strategies that people who run small creative businesses or organisations can use to tackle the psychic tornado

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A Symphony of Bureaucracy

A few years back, at Loud Numbers, we made an episode of the Loud Numbers podcast called A Symphony of Bureaucracy. It’s a data-driven fugue, where eight interlinked melodic lines weave in and out of each other, covering a timeline from the 1950s to the present day. The

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The Sonification Machine

What does a cloudless sky on a warm day sound like? What about a rainy night, with the international space station passing overhead, and an internet full of bots? The Sonification Machine suggests an answer, allowing us to hear the physical and digital environment that surrounds us.

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Siktdjup

Siktdjup is an interactive poetry experience, created for experimental poetry magazine Kontradiktion. You can experience it at siktdjup.xyz. This was a collaboration with a couple of my friends - poet Anna Arvidsdotter and live visual artist Simon David Rydén. They handled the poetry and the visuals, respectively, while I handled

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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 animals,

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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

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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 Caribbean.

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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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The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei

Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot being what

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Streetspace Invaders

The Streetspace Invaders report that I worked on for Possible has just been published! We did freedom-of-information requests to all of London's local authorities to find out where they're siting their electric vehicle chargers - in the roadway, or on the pavement where they obstruct

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ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS

UFO is a script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free scripts developed by the community. The script uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a low-frequency oscillator, with a period of about 90 minutes. It grabs data from

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Noisy Megacities

At Possible, the London-based climate charity I work with, we've just released Noisy Cities - an interactive visualization and sonification of noise pollution in London, Paris and New York - our Car-Free Megacities. NOISY CITIESOur noise maps show the levels of exposure to noise in London, Paris and

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Signal Chain

For the last few months, I've been making music as part of a collaboration called Signal Chain with photographer Oliver Holms. The collaboration was a limited-run pop-up newsletter where we would bouce off each other's creative work. I would send a piece of music,

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Listening to the Atmosphere

I’ve built a small single-purpose Norns script [https://llllllll.co/t/ppm/54589?utm_source=duncangeere&utm_medium=email] 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

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Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program

Today is the public launch of the Elevate Membership Program [http://www.elevatedataviz.com] - 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

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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 [https://storythings.com/work/undullah-street-five-levels/] -  a child, a teenager, a college student, a postgrad student, and an expert - in response to a short story by Australian

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How Covid-19 has affected global carbon dioxide emissions

Thanks to The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/04/reality-check-global-co2-emissions-shooting-back-to-record-levels] 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.

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London Under the Microscope

Earlier this year I created a sonification of London's Covid-19 data as part of Valentina D'Efilippo [http://www.valentinadefilippo.co.uk/]'s beautiful "London Under the Microscope" animation. Now, the entire video is online [https://vimeo.com/571217327] - I recommend listening loud