Music 220a - Homework 1: Data Sonification
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Rain Time
My music is called "Rain Time" because the data being sonified is from inches of rainfall in Australia and England.) I stumbled upon the idea to work with rain because of the very serious drought going on in California. It made me wonder if in the past several decades other areas of the world have gone through something similar. For the first couple seconds, only the Australia data is audible.
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So, in detail, each sample is the number of inches that it rained in either Australia or England for each month for multiple decades. The deviation from the mean number of inches is what causes the audible sound of my music. The two sets of data provide and similar but slightly different sound as manipulated by the data points and also the use of SinOsc or SqrOsc.