Design Rhythmics Sonification Research Lab is pleased to present new sonifications of scientific research. Created by computer scientist and composer/percussionist Marty Quinn, these sonifications demonstrate how data can be turned into music for the purposes of expanding and enhancing our perception of the earth and our environment. Dr. Rita Colwell, former director of The National Science Foundation, cited this work in one of her speeches for being an innovative merging of art and science.
New! Rock Around the Bow Shock: Sonification of data from the Cluster satellites
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Solar Songs, recently commissioned by the Space Science Center at UNH, presents 7 sonifications of solar wind ACE spacecraft data during April of 1998. Iron/Oxygen ratios, electron charge states and up to 6 variables are presented simultaneously. |
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The Seismic Sonata is a musical retelling of the 1994 Northridge California Earthquake. Commissioned by the IRIS Consortium for use in museum displays, this sonification presents the seismic signals as heard from Albuquerque, NM. Various types of waves (P and S) can be heard as they strike over a 15-minute period. Dramatic sonifications feature the concept of an audio zoom to hear both fine and gross details of the wave shapes. |
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The Climate Symphony describes the ice core research of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project II and explains how the mathematical analysis of the data was transformed into music in a process known as sonification. The music expresses 8 climatic elements over 110,000 years as a 7 1/2 minute symphony. It was recently featured at the National Science Foundation and the American Museum of Natural History and is available as an entertaining talk with live drumming demonstrations of sonification and 3D graphics. |