Loud Numbers

Loud Numbers, a sonification podcasting duo of Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere, hosting a ‘sonification festival’ today on Youtube.

15:04 Alex Selby-Boothroyd - Sonifications for the Economist - NOT USEFUL

  • mapping differences between data points and turning them into piano notes; mapped to pitch.
  • sonifications for use in podcasts

45:48 Richard Bultitude - Creating the Conditional Orchestra - NOT USEFUL

  • the conditional orchestra creates musical compositions based on the weather in a specific location

1:16:02 Q&A - Sara Lenzi on the Data Sonification Archive; CHECK OUT sonification sandbox

  • https://soundcloud.com/user-467084838/while-i-was-not-there
  • manually built the composition by splitting data into five categories and then using rain sounds to represent them - put them manually onto the track
  • sonification canvas

1:47:55 Jordan Wirfs-Brock - a Live Data-Sound Recipe - VERY INTERESTING

  • data, sound, and narrative - uses Sonic Pi and parameter mapping
  • autobiographical design exploration
  • speech and non-speech to better explain narrative/provide annotation; jordan is researching the combining and how it impacts understanding
  • DATA VISCERALIZATION - “REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA THAT THE WHOLE BODY CAN EXPERIENCE, EMOTIONALLY AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY” D’IGNAZIO AND KLEIN, DATA FEMINISIM, 2020 ** data embodiment!
  • audio icons

2:18:36 Break - Modular Synth Performance

2:47:50 Kofi Oduro - Sonification of Our Senses

  • sonic pi, hydra, and tidal cycles
  • live coding using sonic pi; hydra for creating visual arts

3:17:08 Simon Huwiler - A Song of Crowns and Tears

3:44:15 Q&A Miriam Quick & Duncan Geere, feat. Alli Torban

4:15:30 Jennifer Kotler - Hearing the Light, A Sonification Gameshow

https://icad.org/

*** plays with the idea of the ‘subjectivity’/’objectivity’ of data - data is seen as objective, but it’s as subjective as the choices made when making a sonification

FUTURE IDEA: -sonifying past prides (size/attendees), aids deaths, raids, etc? hearing queer history; overlaid with/against