My piece utilizes two data sets to generate a bass line, a crescendo, and a floaty, spacey denoument. The "strikes" data set consists of a rise, dip, and rise; setting a low update rate and dropping the starting frequency in "bass.ck" allowed me to create a repetitive bouncy bass line. I used the "gdp" data set to create a rising crescendo of noise; in recording, I quickly launched three different "crescendo.ck" shreds in succession with rising starting frequency values to produce a full-bodied, throaty squeal. Right at the top of the crescendo, I remove all variation in the bass frequency in "bass.ck" and double the update time, producing a slow "wub" sound. Over this "wub", I replay the "strikes" data set at a much slower, ever-increasing rate. This increase in rate, coupled with moderate reverb, gives the end a seemingly random, yet repetitive, sequence of notes that steadily come further and further apart, floating off into space.
All data files are procured off Data Marketas a CSV and edited into a single column of data by me. I used the data set titled "United States GDP from 1960 to 2012" and "Number of Strikes in the United States from 1950 - 1980".