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Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data

Tantacrul · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Music theory, synthesis & productionData visualization & information design

What it is

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 recommends it

Recommended as an incisive look at the real potential and common misuse of data sonification, often brought up in threads on space sonifications.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Creating sound from data”

    jw1224, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software”

  2. “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

    omnicognate, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: sonification, music, data, nasa, audification

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