Earth Notes: Adventures in Sonification
Updated 2023-11-07 18:10 GMT.By Damon Hart-Davis.

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.
Related Pages
- 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):
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:
2023-07-10: V5.2.5
Yearly grid flow. No non-default voices used, no manual tweaking.
MP3 encoding via Audacity:
Published as a podcast episode.
IN PROGRESS