Music 220a - Homework 1: Data Sonification

Chuck Files / Data Files

Generated Wave File

Description

I used a triangle oscillator to map the sound, and modified amplitude, frequency, rate of data/note delivery, etc. I wanted to ultimately create a kind of fugue, and in order to do so I offset the delivery of the data by 8 seconds (the data "theme" is presented three consecutive times in the duo file).

Sources

I used data from the site “datamarket.com.” My data was the monthy HICP, (harmonised index of consumer prices), from December 1998 to July 2013. The file containing the data is called myData.dat.