Music 220a - Homework 1: Death Data Sonification

Caleb Rau

Chuck Files / Data Files

Generated Wave File

Numbers from a specific data set are used to play notes through sine/triangle/sawtooth oscillators, thereby creating a melody of sorts

The composition consists of several shreds looping the specified data set at different update rates, reverb wet/dry levels, etc. The various shreds were recorded into individual tracks in Ableton Live using Jack and then the Master was bounced to a WAV file.

Sources

Data: Death rates by causes of death in Iceland. Source: Statistics Iceland, http://datamarket.com/data/set/wl6/deaths-by-causes-of-deaths-icd-10-sex-and-age-1996-2009#!ds=wl6!466=3:467=kb.vb.qm.td.vg.ta.s3.pn.pq.pk.pg:468=2&display=line