Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data

Name: Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data
Uploaded: 2017-07-13T21:30:00Z
Duration: 888 s
Description: 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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259K views · Jul 13, 2017 · 14:48 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2020–2024

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as an incisive look at the real potential and common misuse of data sonification, often brought up in threads on space sonifications.

“Tantacrul has a typically incisive video [1] about the real potential of sonification as a powerful technique for understanding data”HN comment, 2022

Music theory, synthesis & production Data visualization & information design Commentary #sonification #music #data #nasa #audification

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Strongly recommendsjw1224Jun 2020

Creating sound from data

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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: this video

RecommendsomnicognateAug 2022

“Tantacrul has a typically incisive video [1] about the real potential of sonification as a powerful technique for understanding data”

Real potential of sonification versus dishonest publicity use

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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] this video

Cites itrichbellOct 2024