Made with ocean current data from the Global Drifter program (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/index.php) using the open source Sonify API (https://github.com/eggsyntax/sonify), which I wrote for this purpose. Various info about the process at http://tinpanalgorithm.tumblr.com/post/54007804236/global-drifter-details .

Global Drifter

"But the music did talk, in its syntax of variation and reprise, reprise and variation; the mechanical procedures accumulated to form a spirit, a breath that rippled the rapid mathematics of it all like those footsteps wind makes on still, black water." John Updike

Global Drifter

Tin Pan Algorithm