Motivation

I chose data on the demand for gasoline as the source of information I would like to sonify. Upon viewing the graph above, I thought this would make for an interesting sonification, since it the numbers form a series of peaks that get higher and higher as time increases. In order to sonify these peaks, I chose to focus on amplitude, frequency, and attributes on a low-pass filter.

For my project I used a square oscilator with a low-pass filter that was modulated by a low-frequency oscilator whose speed was controlled by the values from the data. Both pitch and amplitude of the oscilator are also influenced by the data.

Downloads

You can download the data file here

Chuck

You can download the chuck source code files:

Sound File