Earth Notes: Adventures in Sonification

Updated 2023-11-07 18:10 GMT.
By Damon Hart-Davis.

Data into sound for science and fun #sonification #house #EDM

Helping absorb data through the ears, with the aim of making some of it (maybe with a little human help) danceable...

Scripts

Main scripts to make audio.
House music related scripts.

Data

16WW Energy Series Dataset including all consolidated uniform kWh home energy data and .mid MIDI sonification outputs.
16WW consolidated uniform energy data.

PV Sounds: How Does PV Grid-tie Generation Sound in Time-lapse?
Podcast including sonification episodes.
Battery Sounds: How Does a Battery Sound in Time-lapse?
16WW Energy Series Dataset including all consolidated uniform kWh home energy data.
On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature.
2023-04-09: House.
On Visualisation, Sonification and Modelling Tools for Energy.
Rad Sounds: How Cool is your Home Heating in Time-lapse?
Rad Sounds II: Attempting a Higher-fi Home-heating Time-lapse.
Statscast - PV Up, Travel Down, Weakly Weeklies (2020-04).
Statscast - Lockdown Changes, Log Noises (2020-05).
Water Music: How Does Tap-water Temperature Sound in Time-lapse?
Water Music: In The House.
House: Yearly Electricity Grid Flows Sonified.

2023-05-21: Autogenerating House Energy Data Series

As of today, with the (V4.3) script textToMIDIv4p3-consolidated, I am also generating and publishing 'house' MIDI versions. That includes some minor tidy-up such as padding data tracks to whole phrases, the phrase being the intro/outro time (or 1 if no intro/outro).

2023-05-22: V4.4

I have tweaked the (V4.4) script to adjust instruments and volumes for 'house' textToMIDIv4p4-consolidated. I have updated the energy series page to use V4.4.

Here is an MP3 sample (monthly PV generation):

52s "20230522 V4p4 house gen M" Uploaded 2023-05-22. Download stereo MP3 clip 816kB (may not be available in data-saver/lite mode), download low-bandwidth mono MP3 clip 296kB.

2023-07-04: V5.1.0

Monthly grid imports 2009-10/2023-04, 4-bar sections, automated verse/chorus structure from the V5 Java statsHouse implementation on GitHub, with GarageBand "dripping cycles" manually selected for the main data voice.

MP3 encoding via Audacity:

59s "20230704 V5p1p0 house imp M" Uploaded 2023-07-07. Download stereo MP3 clip 1356kB.

2023-07-10: V5.2.5

Yearly grid flow. No non-default voices used, no manual tweaking.

MP3 encoding via Audacity:

131s "20230710 V5p2p5 house flow Y" Uploaded 2023-07-14. Download stereo MP3 clip 3228kB (may not be available in data-saver/lite mode), download low-bandwidth mono MP3 clip 848kB, hi-fi stereo lossless clip 13998kB.

Published as a podcast episode.

IN PROGRESS