Sonifications and Soundscapes - POLAR SEEDS
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Soundscape & Ambience

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The gallery exhibition experience included a continuously running 50-minute ambient soundscape.   In addition, Prof. Tedesco's team tried their hand at sound design.  

Descriptions and complete audio experiences here.

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Sonified with Musical density

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These were generated by pre-composing some modular music - music that could survive having some, most, or all of the notes being suppressed (muted) at any given point in time.  The percentage of notes allowed to sound is controlled by the data.  I tried this with stepped annual Temperature values, and also with Melt data.  There is a simple version with the rhythm section only, and a version with four complete groups of musical instruments.



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Sonified annual data

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These sonifications were generated using annual data averages from the years 1958-2012. I smoothed between the annual values, ramping from one data point to the next in order to create continuous (rather then discrete) sonic changes as the timeline moves through 54-years.  

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Sonified daily data

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These sonifications are driven by daily data values from 1958-2012 - that's almost 20,000 data points!  This can provide an experience of  changes within each yearly cycle, especially when slowed down.  Albedo is represented by steel drum samples, Temperature by an FM synthesizer, and Melting with a resonant low-pass filter.  In addition, Cumulative daily melt values, which rise up till each year's end, offer a revealing sonic window into the data trends.


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