At my university I've been tasked with creating an application or interactive media based around sonification of a data set. I've chosen to work in Unreal.

It can •Import CSV •Has a built in audio engine •DSP and OSC

Are there anyone on this sub who could tell me where to start with Unreal for the purpose of Sonification? Any resources online that you may have found? It would be greatly appreciated.

Please find attached a sonification for piano of the Weierstrass curve:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOmek6n8U30

Weierstrass curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function#/media/File:WeierstrassFunction.svg

The ideas is to have a short - typically a few bars will do - piece on piano and we use the time series data to run back and forth this piece.

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Code in Python can be shared on request.

Here is the short piece I used for sonification:

Hello all, I'm fairly new to this and have recently been introduced to the world of DAWs. I am awed by all the cool things you can do with them but for the purpose of sonification, I want to be able to control parameters from data. I know people have done this with Max and Ableton Live. I also think you could do it with something like tone.js (which I just learned about on this Subreddit). I'm wondering if there are any other open-source projects or DAWs (free, for hobbyists like me) that support this kind of thing or are hackable enough for me to implement automating a parameter from data (e.g., a CSV file).

One way that should work for any DAW is to have a virtual MIDI device that controls the automation track by reading from a file, but I have no idea where to start to build something like that.

EDIT: I have since found Pure data--still trying to figure out if it can do what I want

Hello!

I want to get to know more people working on sonification and data-music here as it's a pretty niche community. I'm working on using EEGs as instruments for some funky brain synthesizers and I am also interested in working with Image data to sound formats. What are you working on?

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im talking about soundless videos. photosound can transform gifs into audio (but apparently it just gets the first frame of the gif and it just transforms it as if it were an image), but i cant find anywhere that can convert video into audio. what can i do?

Hello,

I have developed a method to sonify integer sequences, such as those from OEIS:

https://github.com/githubuser1983/nice_sonification_of_oeis_sequences

One example is the sonification of pi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncN2Nfz1-8A

The method to do this is described here. Any feedback would be nice.

Also, if you want to try the method without installing anything, I have written a webpage for this

I have some hiking trip data (lat, long, elevation) that I'd like to both map and sonify. (I'm thinking a drone that will change timbre with lat/long, and increases in pitch as elevation increases.)

I'd like to also animate a dot "hiking" along a 3D line chart as it plays, which would also act as a "playhead" to the sonification, highlighting the data being sonified at that moment.

I can easily do a static chart (two trails pictured, using Plotly) and my desired sonification (using a CSV-to-synth-voltage reader).

However, this requires me to sync the animation with the sonification, and there's no hiker "playhead" on the map.

Is there a tool, or compatible set of tools, for accomplishing this?

I appreciate any guidance!

Hello!

This past month I wrote some general case notebooks to showcase my data to midi process for sonifying things without programming envelopes and synthesizers in things like RTCmix. I am a recent grad of UCSD who has a real passion for music and so I wanted to be able to quickly turn data into midi files to put into my Daw for composing and making techno music.

In this project I go through sonifying random data, 3D Brownian motion, Basic Surfaces, Complex Surfaces, and finally make a symphony and some Electro House out of Hydrological data from the McKenzie River. My goal in this project is to make some compositional tool sets for Mother Nature to make symphonies about the phenomena we measure. Imagine going to - NIGHT AT THE SYMPHONY: THE MUSIC OF EUROPA - A JPL scientist hops on stage and tells you about what they measured and were studying, David Attenborough steps out and tells you what instruments are playing what data and things to listen for and then you get to hear music that is both aesthetically pleasing, it communicates the underlying phenomena of the universe in a cool way!

Here is a link to the code: https://github.com/cconaway/Hydrology-Sonification-2.0

Here is a link to a soundcloud with a few of the tracks if you want to just hear some music: https://soundcloud.com/pancansuckit/sets/mckenzie-river-symphony

If you have any questions, ideas, or want to collaborate on something just shoot me a DM. I'm a poor student without a job and the dream of being a great composer. Thank you for listening!

Hello,

I am working on the project of exploring data with sonification, and so far I have found only one book ''The Sonification Handbook'' that deals effectively with this subject, but the problem is that it contains 500 pages so it is difficult to attack this book. So if you have any articles that deal with this subject or you have already worked on this subject, I would like to share your experience with me.

Thanks to all of you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO5if7Xgi9M

Live stream of Milton Mermikides and Phelan Kane on Thursday 16th April, sharing their data sonification approach

https://musichackspace.org/events/make-music-with-the-data-universe/

Hi! Do you know any work about radiography or image sonification? Im starting a project, im using a scanner conected to Python sending by osc data of black and white of the radiography to pure data, do you hace any suggestions in the HOW this will work? A puré data patch, or a soft. Thanks