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Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data
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Tantacrul examines sonification, the practice of turning data into sound or music, and critiques how scientists and musicians, including NASA and CERN projects, use it well and poorly.
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Recommended as an incisive look at the real potential and common misuse of data sonification, often brought up in threads on space sonifications.
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From the Hacker News discussion
As soon as I saw this pop up on HN, I thought “hey, MuseScore — isn’t that the notation software Tantacrul loves to hate?”. I’m not a composer, and I’d never heard of let alone used MuseScore before stumbling on his videos a couple of weeks ago. What a great surprise to see they’ve been listening to their critics! After finding his channel I slowly worked my way through watching all his videos. One of my favourites is about “sonification”, or creating sound from of data. Might be quite interesting to the HN crowd: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Tantacrul has a typically incisive video [1] about the real potential of sonification as a powerful technique for understanding data, and its real artistic possibilities, vs the dishonest and arbitrary way it gets used to generate publicity. [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I'm reminded of "Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data" by Tantacrul. [VIDEO]
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