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Each unique Kalimba "note" corresponds to one of the 64 different Bikeshare stations I visited on 220 trips in 2013. Certain notes get played a lot as they represent my commute to and from work. 

Created using:
CaBi Scraper from https://github.com/harlanyu/Capital-Bikeshare-Scraper 
Kalimba samples: http://www.freesound.org/people/Rocktopus/packs/5206/
Web Audio API: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001552


Sonification: My 2013 BikeShare trip data, as played on Kalimba. (Allegro)

Kepler: Star KIC7671081B Light Curve Waves to Sound

‘Iraq body count’ is a sonic representation (i.e. a sonification) of the number of casualties of Iraqi civilians and US and UK soldiers during the period January 2003 to April 2004. The daily price of crude oil on the stock exchange is also represented in the background. 

Data was collected from the Iraq Body Count website www.iraqbodycount.net; the Iraq Coalition casualty Count website http://lunaville.org/ and Yahoo! Finance.

Data Sonification is a powerful and emotional way for representing and analysing data sets.

Iraq Body Count

This is my first project using the powerful SuperCollider audio-programming language. It’s the sonification of a game of Go I played with a friend of mine (it works with any recorded match). 
Stones of different colour are represented by different synths and (in this case pentatonic) scales.
The synth for the black stones is based on the first four partials of an oscillating rod described in Andy Farnell’s highly recommended book “Designing Sound”, that for the white ones on a bell patch from Nick Collins’ great SC tutorial. 
Pitch and pan are determined by the distance of the last-set stone from the center of the board, amount of reverb and amplitude by the number of liberties of the stone and connections to stones of the same colour respectively.
When stones are captured, this activates the third synth (some noise), whose duration and amplitude are controlled by the number of captured stones.
I also added some random variation of rhythm to represent the changing time between moves.

It would be nice not to need an additional array for the captured stones and to be able to enter the moves via a GUI rather than having to tediously enter them into arrays but both are way beyond my possibilities at the moment.

If you like this (also if not) please give me some feedback!
Interested in the code? Just send me your email address and I’ll mail it to you for free use.

Enjoy!


Sonification of Go

Ableton employee Mike Verdone created a program to send note data from Tweets mentioning a keyword. For the announcement of Ableton Live 9 and Push, we tracked mentions of "Ableton" over a three-hour period. Here are the compressed results, fed into the Ableton Live 9 beta.

Ableton Live 9 on Twitter

POLARSEEDS musicologist Jonathan Perl explains the mysterious musicology behind his custom-built climate "sonifications."

Iraq Body Count

Somatic Sounds