Devlog #37
Hello sonification fans! Welcome to the 37th Loud Numbers development log - a weekly newsletter that gives you a glimpse behind the scenes on how we’re putting together our data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers. You’re getting this message because you signed up for it at loudnumbers.net, and you can unsubscribe whenever you like with the link in the footer.
Another busy week of client work for both of us here, which hasn’t left a lot of time for progressing the podcast. But we’ve polished up a final, final version of Tasting Notes - our sonification of the experience of drinking different kinds of beers - that we’re going to send for mastering in the coming days. It’s sounding fantastic, we can’t wait for you to hear it.
We’ve also been progressing plans a little for the sonification festival that we’re planning to put on at the end of May/start of June to celebrate the release of the podcast. Thanks to those of you who got in touch interested in presenting something at the event. If this is the first you’re hearing about this, then check out last week’s newsletter and hit reply if you’re interested in speaking or performing.
Finally, we’ve been putting together a first draft of the art for each of the episodes. Miriam came up with a fun idea to only use triangles in the designs, as well as some sketches, and then Duncan turned those sketches into something that feels “done” if not quite “final final really final this time v3” yet.
We’re going to be releasing them on Twitter over the course of the next few weeks, but because you’re part of our super-secret sonification club you get to see them early! So here’s the cover for the first episode we’ll be putting out, which is called “The Natural Lottery”.
Elsewhere on the web, it’s been a bit of a quiet week sonification-wise, so we’ll remind you again that Sara Lenzi - sound designer, researcher, and friend of Loud Numbers - will be talking about the design of data sonifications at the S-H-O-W conference on 8 and 9 April.
You might also like Sean Bonner’s SAFECAST.LIVE, a sonification of air quality and background radiation measurements from around the globe, inspired by the classic Listen to Wikipedia.
Finally, Shawn Graham created a jazzy sonification of the visual data contained in an image of Carleton University Library in Ottawa, Canada.
Catch you all next week!