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Sonification

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Sonification in Eurorack

Sonification in Eurorack

The greatest joy of modular synthesizers is that you get to create a new instrument every time you sit down. You start with a bunch of modules that send and receive signals of a few basic types (triggers, gates, control voltage, audio), and you decide what goes where. You get

Listening to the Atmosphere

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 a

Data Sonification on Norns

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

London Under the Microscope

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 with headphones! Here's how it works. There

Loud Numbers is Released!

Loud Numbers is Released!

After 18 months of work, the first episode of my data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, has been released. You can listen here: Data sonification is the art of turning data into sound and, together with my co-host Miriam Quick, we've gone a step further turned five different data stories into

I'm Speaking at Outlier 2021

I'm Speaking at Outlier 2021

The speakers for Outlier 2021 [https://www.outlierconf.com/], the first conference of the Data Visualization Society, have just been announced and I'm really pleased to be among them! Speakers — Outlier 2021Outlier 2021 [https://www.outlierconf.com/speakers] Together with Miriam Quick, I'll be talking about Loud Numbers [https://www.

2020 in Review: Loud Numbers

2020 in Review: Loud Numbers

Every week, I send out a development log newsletter [http://buttondown.email/loudumbers] for Loud Numbers [http://www.loudnumbers.net], the data sonification podcast that I'm making with Miriam Quick [http://www.miriamquick.com]. The latest episode features a round-up of all the work we've done on the project in

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Telling Stories With Data & Music

I've just published an article for Nightingale [https://medium.com/nightingale?source=post_page-----f60ac0b5f1be--------------------------------] , the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, on the new approach to sonification that we're taking with Loud Numbers. Here's an snippet: > Our goal is to create something that not only tells a series of compelling