THE VIDEO SHELF · data sonification
Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data
Tantacrul examines sonification, the practice of turning data into sound or music, and critiques how scientists and musicians, including NASA and CERN projects, use it well and poorly.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as an incisive look at the real potential and common misuse of data sonification, often brought up in threads on space sonifications.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tantacrul
- Topic
- data sonification
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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As soon as I saw this pop up on HN, I thought “hey, MuseScore — isn’t that the notation software Tantacrul loves to hate?”. I’m not a composer, and I’d never heard of let alone used MuseScore before stumbling on his videos a couple of …
jw1224 on Hacker News · 2020-06
In MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition softwareTantacrul has a typically incisive video [1] about the real potential of sonification as a powerful technique for understanding data, and its real artistic possibilities, vs the dishonest and arbitrary way it gets used to generate publicity. [1] [VIDEO]
omnicognate on Hacker News · 2022-08
In New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix
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