Sounds recorded in the wild by audio naturalist Martyn Stewart

West Indian Manatee

Strawberry Poison Arrow Frog

Florida Panther

Afternoon Thunderstorm In Austrailian Rainforest

This is a sonification of a model to teach the dynamics of how a protein folds, created by  scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Protein Folding Sonification

This is a sonification composed and turned into something musical, with the help of scientist Mark Temple’s musician friends.

Molecular Music Album

Coronavirus Spike Protein Musification

This is the sonification of the Coronavirus Spike Protein which Mark Temple published a paper on in a peer reviewed journal in 2020.

Example Sonification Files

Coronavirus Spike Protein Sonification

Credit: Bellier et al., 2023, PLOS Biology.

The Pink Floyd clip reconstructed with data from 29 participants.

Original 15-second clip of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1).”

Scientists recorded a series of short, crackling pulses created by a rig shark, thought to be the first documented instance of a shark actively producing sound.

A rig shark emits clicks in the first known recording of shark sounds

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The Pink Floyd clip reconstructed with data from 29 participants.

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