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Two Trains – Sonification of Income Inequality on the NYC Subway

"This song emulates a ride on the New York City Subway's 2 Train through three boroughs: Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the…

Posted on: February 16, 2015
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Fabricmachine – sound and textiles

Another instance of taking the physical or visual properties of a material and converting them to sound. FABRIC MACHINE Installation…

Posted on: February 5, 2015
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Soundweaving: Artist Converts Folk Embroidery Patterns into Paper Scores for Music Boxes

Soundweaving is a recent project by Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay that turns patterns used in traditional folk embroidery into…

Posted on: February 3, 2015
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This Man Can Hear Wi-Fi

Writer Frank Swain has been able to hear Wi-Fi signals for the past week, and no, it's not “the result…

Posted on: December 8, 2014
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Extracting audio from visual information

Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass. Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe…

Posted on: December 7, 2014
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ALMA Music Box: melody of a Dying Star

http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/musicbox/ ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is a state-of-the-art radio telescope developed and operated by 20 countries and territories in…

Posted on: December 7, 2014
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Patrick Feaster – Pictures of Sound

Another great resource related to sonification: This video is derived from a slideshow that was presented by Patrick Feaster at…

Posted on: November 20, 2014
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The Singing Comet

Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. RPC principal investigator Karl-Heinz…

Posted on: November 13, 2014
By: Claudia
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Earthquake Sound of the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake (Zhigang Peng)

This webpage contains earthquake "sounds" created from seismic recordings around the world generated by the 2011/03/11 Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake.…

Posted on: October 29, 2014
By: John Roach
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Listen to the stars – Wanda L. Diaz Merce

"In the spring of 2011, Wanda L. Diaz Merced spent time at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, doing research for…

Posted on: October 29, 2014
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Listen to Wikipedia

Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according…

Posted on: October 29, 2014
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Ebru Kurbak – Tunable Touch

Tunaeble Touch provides an alternative configuration to what the majority of us experience as the material world. To that end,…

Posted on: October 22, 2014
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Scientific approach to the soundscape with visual tools

The soundscape, in depth:http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/28/6071399/scientists-are-recording-the-sound-of-the-whole-planet

Posted on: September 9, 2014
By: Claudia
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Living Symphonies

Living Symphonies is a musical composition that grows in the same way as a forest ecosystem. Portraying the thriving activity…

Posted on: September 9, 2014
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#tweetscapes

It's unclear if this project still exists, but the idea is interesting, to make audible the twitter traffic in a…

Posted on: August 29, 2014
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Sound and the Weather – Sonification

Our culture is cluttered with examples of quantitative and qualitative made visual. Flip through any New York Times or Wall…

Posted on: August 29, 2014
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This American Life – episode110 – Mapping (mapping hearing)

12min Jack Hitt visits Toby Lester, who has mapped all the ambient sounds in his world: the hum of the…

Posted on: September 12, 2012
By: John Roach