Using jweb, jit.desktop, and jit.peek~ to convert current mean green value to an audio signal.
The sound of the Internet
“Internet Machine” by Timo Arnall
by Tyler McCarthy at huffingtonpost.com
The Eerie Sounds of Saturn’s Radio Emissions
By Bill Kurth, RPWS Deputy Principal Investigator
http://cassini.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/cassini/SKR1/
From Data to Music
Max as a Sonification Algorithmic Composition Tool
From algorithmiccomposer.com
Tutorial with example patches in Max and Pd to explore the ideas of making musical sound from weather data. The output is a Midi synthesizer. The patch allows flexible mapping and scaling of data to pitch, tempo, and dynamics.
Cosm data sonification project
By Wesley Smith and Graham Wakefield
Tutorial and externals for Max (Jitter) that produce visualization and sonification of scientific data.
http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/cosm/chemotaxis.html
Police fire GPS tracking ‘bullets’ at cars during chases
by Chris Matyszczyk at CNET
http://youtu.be/qXCi_na80wQ
Parameter mapping sonification
The Sonification Handbook. Chapter 15.
by Florian Grond and Jonathan Berger
This chapter, saddled with an unfortunate acronym, talks about how to map data to sound. Starting with a boiling water kettle.
http://sonification.de/handbook/index.php/chapters/chapter15/
Sonification abstraite / sonification concrete
A relationship between sonification and music.
By Paul Vickers and Bennett Hogg
http://dev.icad.org/Proceedings/2006/VickersHogg2006.pdf
Unsolved sonification problems
Other than a worldwide shortage of silence…
- Trucks that beep while in reverse
- Medical devices with alarms which are increasingly ignored
- Anxiety inducing device sounds (email/phone alerts)
- Talking gas pumps
Sonification of business data
“On Applying Sonification Methods to Convey Business Process Data”
by Tobias Hildebrandt, Simone Kriglstein, and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-855/paper9.pdf
