Category: sonificiation
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Debugging midi bytes with sonification
I’m currently working on some hardware for interfacing a Raspberry Pi 3 with MIDI. You can of course use a normal USB audio interface, and there is a ready made MIDI Hat module for the Pi already – but I only need MIDI out, and it shouldn’t be a problem to come up with something…
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Cerys Matthews and Sonic Kayaks
Catching up on old news, but a few months ago I went on Cerys Matthew’s show on BBC radio 6 and talked about Sonic Kayaks, you can hear the interview here. This was in the run up to the British Science Festival in Swansea where we put them to sea in a musical citizen science…
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Sonic Kayaks: musical instruments for marine exploration
Here is a bit of a writeup of the gubbins going into the sonic kayaks project. We only have a few weeks to go until the kayaks’ maiden voyages at the British Science Festival, so we are ramping things up, with a week of intense testing and production last week with Kirsty Kemp, Kaffe Matthews…
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Pixelquipu installed at the Open Data Institute
Pixelquipu Inca Harddrives installed at the Open Data Institute (Weaving Codes/coding with knots, with Julian Rohrhuber at the Institut Fuer Musik und Medien) Part of their Thinking out Loud exhibition. Julian also built a sonification installation to play the quipu at different times of the day. Here’s a closeup:
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Red King progress, and a sonification voting system
We have now launched the Red King simulation website. The fundamental idea of the project is to use music and online participation to help understand a complex natural process. Dealing with a mathematical model is more challenging than a lot of our citizen science work, where the connection to organisms and their environments is more…
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Sonic Kayaks Hacklab
Part one of our two events for British Science Week was the Sonic Kayak open Hacklab with Kaffe Matthews and Dr. Kirsty Kemp. Amber has reported our findings here, this was the first time we successfully trialled the technology and ideas behind the Sonic Kayak, in future we will be refining them into instruments for…
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Red King – listening to coevolution
Scientific models are used by researchers in order to understand interactions that are going on around us all the time. They are like microscopes – but rather than observing objects and structures, they focus on specific processes. Models are built from the ground up from mathematical rules that we infer from studying ecosystems, and they…