Sound and Data

This was a mind blowing find and rekindled my interest in extending this podcast of mine a little more, so I might start it up again. I discovered you can use a new tool in the Google AI experimental notebook area called "Notebook LM" Excercising my sense of irony I asked ChatGPT about it and it responded Google's NotebookLM (formerly called Project Tailwind) is an experimental AI tool designed to...

Jordan Wirfs-Brock and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster discuss new ideas in user interface that take advantage of senses other than sight. Specifically Scot became aware of Jordan's research by hearing her radio pieces on the NPR show Market Place with a show "Here's what the crescendo of the unemployment sounds like". Scot "I heard that while washing the dishes and had to reach out to Jordan and disc...

Brian Foo and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster talk in this podcast they talk over some of that work with a focus on the pieces at the Art/Science boundary. His work as the DATA DRIVEN DJ caught my attention and I had to reach out and speak to him about his double life working at the famous New York City Natural History Museum by day to make exhibits and do data visualization for them. At night he take...

CLARENCE BARLOW and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster have know each other for decades and over the years Scot's admiration for Clarence's amazing body of work and research has only grown. In this podcast they talk over some of that work with a focus on the pieces at the Art/Science boundary. Clarence speaks at length about many of his challenging new ideas regarding techniques for using data in new way...

DOLORES CATHERINO and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster about the use of a technique called Polychromatic composition that Dolores has identified and uses extensively in her work. Using specially modified keyboards with as many as 72 equal semitones per octave, she creates oceans of sound that sweep the listener into new territories. We discuss using these techniques as a new way to leverage the use of...

IVANNA MUSE came to my attention from our mutual friend, Roger Malina. He had met her during a trip to MIT and thought that she might be an interesting person to interview for the "Sound and Data" channel. So this was a bit of a cold call since I was not that familiar with her work. It was amazing to find out the angle at which she is approaching this idea of "sound and data" which was so differen...

Roger Dean and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster talk about the wide range of Roger's work as a composer, scientist and expert in music cognition. A fascinating look into the ongoing work he is doing finding the connections between the experiences of creating music that is tuned to the functions of human auditory cognition.

Konstantinos Vasilakos and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster talk over various aspects of Konstantinos' work bringing sonificaiton to a mass audience with various projects. Here is a pointer to his github regarding a live coding project involving sonification data from the Large Hadron Collider. The project is a collaboration between BEER ensemble (University of Birmingham) and the Art@CMS project at CE...

Garth Paine is particularly fascinated with sound as an experiential medium, both in musical performance and as an exhibitable object. He is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in experimental music and media arts. He gave the Keynote at the 2016 NIME conference. In 2018, Garth was an artist in residence at IRCAM (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe). Garth's multi-discipl...

Chris Chafe and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster dive into an in depth one hour conversation about many aspects of Chris's decades of in depth work in sonificaiton. Chris is easily one of the worlds leading experst in this field with prolific output of new material and many rich new ideas that have made him one of the most important figures in the field.

Martin came to my attention when I ran across this well produced and thought provoking YouTube video on Sonification. This is one of many excellent videos he has produced and distributed on YouTube, but this one was so germane to the topic of this channel that I had to give him a ring. In doing some research on him, I discovered that he is, himself, a very talented composer, which for me gives him...

Mark came to my attention as an individual doing some of the most innovative work in the new field. I reached out in winter of 2017 to speak to Mark about his work in sonification that I had been tracking for years He was one of the most innovative and fully realized practitionaers of thsi new field of study. In July of 2019 the newly appointed director of the Arts + Design Research Incubator at P...

A rare opportunity to interview Carla just after the keynote address she gave at ICAD in 2017. She gave an amazing speech, a must listen for anyone interted in this field. Working in the field of sonificaiton since the mid 1990's so it was great to finally sit down and have a discussion.

Greg Kramer and Scot Gresham-Lancaster discuss the field of sonification–the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. This conversation deals with its origins and possible uses in the future.

Scot Gresham-Lancaster in conversation with colleague Bert Barten to touch bases on a decade-long project called Talking Trees. Talking Trees is a collaboration between artists, musicians and scientists who aim to connect people and nature together. The idea comes from artist Bert Barten who is aware of our unnatural way of living. When the Polish government announced the senseless destruction of...

A short discussion with Dr. Vickers about his very serious research and approach to sonification but also including some discussion of his recent standup routine regarding sonification as its main topic.

A discussion with L. Alexis Emelianoff about her use of detectors to sonify invisible electromagnetic fields that surround all of us. Her specially designed interfacess allow audiences to experience the sounds of electromagnetic fields that she moves through with purposeful gestures. Sonifying the invisible for the ears of the audience. as its main topic.

David Worrall is a preeminent scholar regarding sonification. His doctoral thesis on the topic is one of the best resources available for anyone researching this area of study. This is an open and informal discussion of various topics related to sonification. David and Scot have known each other for decades so this an engaging and lively discussion.

An opportunity to catch up with Marco Buongiorno Nardelli in 2015 in the midst of an ongoing and seemingly endless flow of creation where scientific and musical work co-mingle and compliment each other

From Sophia Roosth's perspective as an anthropologist, the interest in how non-visual senses (e.g., hearing, taste, and touch) figure in scientific research and knowledge production are discussed. Discussed among these interests, sonocytologists who record cellular vibrations, exploring how listening to cells impacts how researchers understand biological processes.

To quote Mike Winters from the “Project Description” of his Masters Thesis “Strategies for Continuous Auditory Display of Arousal and Valence” in which he states “Sound is capable of profound emotional experiences: one need look no further than the importance of music in film. Sonification is field of research interested in the use of sound to convey information in general, but what happens when t...

Here is an extended conversation regarding a broad range of topics relative to sonification including the types and definitions of listening relative to sonification practices as well as a discussion of the blurry space between sound art practice and functional scientific purpose with sonification.

Margaret Schedel is an Associate Professor of Composition and Computer Music at Stony Brook University. Through her work, she explores the relatively new field of Data Sonification, generating new ways to perceive and interact with information through the use of sound. LINK to a longer in depth article. Dr. Schedel states: “In the current fascination with sonification, the fact that aesthetic deci...

Pauline Oliveros and host Scot Gresham-Lancaster have collaborated on many projects over the years and in this podcast they talk over some of that work with a focus on the pieces at the Art/Science boundary. The Deep Listening Art/Science Conference comes up as well as the interesting “moon bounce” pieces, “Echoes from the Moon.” Although done in Season 1 this has been moved up in time.

Andrew Blanton and Scot Gresham-Lancaster introduce and discuss CONDUCTOR, an exploration in real-time sound diffusion using multiple iOS devices as sensors for the placement of sound. The design references the historical use of spatial dimensions in music and addresses how the disintegration of traditional audience/performer roles creates massive implications for this new approach to “conducting”...