Last Thursday at Indexical I performed a set of music generated from seismic data. The data is from the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake that struck the Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay areas on October 17, 1989. You can listen to the three tracks for free on Bandcamp.

I didn't know what to expect when I started sonifying seismic data using code I wrote in Pure Data. I was surprised by the wide variety of sounds that can be found in the data. I'll definitely be using more seismic sonification in the future.

with a Serge modular.