138  |  Turning Data into Sound with Hannah Davis

We are joined by Hannah Davis, a data visualization and sonification expert, to talk about how data sonification works and how she has gone about making her own amazing sonification projects, which create musical pieces based on data.

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How do you represent data with sound instead of graphical properties? Is it even possible?

It turns out that it’s not only possible, but there is an entire field — called sonification — that is dedicated to representing data with sound.

In this episode we are joined by Hannah Davis, a data visualization and sonification expert, to talk about how sonification works and how she has gone about making her own amazing sonification projects, which create musical pieces based on data. Get your ears ready! This time you are not only going to listen to our voices but also to some really interesting sounds!

P.S. We’ve actually touched upon sonification once before in Data Stories. Check out our episode with Scott Hughes on the sonification of black holes.

LINKS

Moritz’s CourseBeyond Heatmaps: Course on climate change visualization at the Digital Media program at HfK BremenListen: Apple Blossom is Shifting by Katja Striedelmeyer

We talked about sonification once before!http://datastori.es/75-sonification-scott-hughes/

Sonification examplesFractions of a secondMatch 104 – James Murphy Remix | The US Open Sessions

HannahHannah’s web site: http://www.hannahishere.comHannah’s talk at Eyeo 2018Article: Subjective Data

Hannah’s projects Sonified DataTransProse (Peter Pan, The Road, Clockwork Orange)Text to Music GeneratorAt the Louvre: Human-Computer SymphonyUFO Data (file 1, file 2)Percival with SynthBeats laptop orchestraLaughing room

How folks can get started with sonificationhttp://app.twotone.ioJsmidgen: https://github.com/dingram/jsmidgenMidiutil: https://pypi.org/project/MIDIUtil/Workshop on Turning Data into Sound and MusicMake a Twitter Audio Bot That Composes a Song Based on a Tweet