Sonification

Workshop

Workshop Activities

Environmental Data Sonification Tour

  1. Earthquake sonification Bloch, et al. -- Pakistan -- 2015–2017
    (scroll down to Video 1.)
  2. Live CO2 level sonification Chafe -- 60+ years, Mauna Loa Observatory NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory Earth System Research Laboratories
  3. Ensemble Means Chafe -- Earplay Ensemble world thermometers (1961-2022) -- crashes Firefox --, quintet score (2022)
  4. Snow Depth KQED News -- Donner Pass, CA -- Decembers, 1970-2021
  5. The Metered Tide Chafe & Niemeyer -- San Francisco Bay -- monthly 1900-2016 (more...)
  6. Ice Core Walk CCRMA, EOAS UBC, Earth Sci. Stanford, UCB Art -- Dome Concordia, Antarctica -- annual 800 kyr (more...)
  7. Earth's Climate Chafe, UCB ERG, KQED -- N. hemisphere -- annual 400 yr (more...)
  8. Earth Symphony (mockup for CBC) Tortell, Chafe, Girard, UBC students -- data overlays, 1970-2020

Hands-on coding project

Go here.
(updated for 2023 using the new webchuck IDE)

Tour of webchuck (2022)

1 hour video and the code examples that go with it.

2022 hands-on sonification (using webchuck without webchuck IDE)