Sound and Data

Sonification

mapping information or data into non-speech sound

Further Reading

stAllio!’s Editing Images with Sound Software Tutorial

stAllio! result from cutting and pasting the data from a bitmap file within a sound editing program
stAllio! result from cutting and pasting the data from a bitmap file within a sound editing program

Shawn Graham, Tutorial on Sonification

Sounds of Science, the Mystique of Sonification

Mark Sample, Notes toward a Deformed Humanities

The deformed work is the end, not the means to the end. The Deformed Humanities is all around us. I’m only giving it a name. Mashups, remixes, fan fiction, they are all made by breaking things, with little regard for preserving the original whole.

Daniel Temkin, Glitch && Human/Computer Interaction

Precedents

Andy Baio’s experiments of converting original MP3s to MIDI, and back again to MP3s

Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis’s “Weather Report” which translates weather data into sound