Several musicians and scientists have turned to music to express the urgency of climate change data.
, based in San Francisco, has been working with different groups to create musical works inspired by climate science data. Their most recent piece, “Climate”, incorporates both historic data and models of potential future scenarios.
How effective is this type of communication? Twedt was inspired to turn data into music after she noticed the undergraduate students she was teaching about climate change started suffering from information overload after seeing so many different visual representations of the data. In her TEDxSeattle talk, Twedt, “Music can be intimate, even vulnerable, and help us understand, through rhythm and vibration, that climate change isn't simply a test problem, or a policy problem.
Meanwhile, “The Lost Seasons” composers hope that their composition will encourage listeners to learn more about the message of the work. “If someone is sentimentally impressed immediately after the concert, they will want to return to this material in result,” theySometimes the same attention-grabbing effect is achieved even by just turning climate data into sound that isn’t very musical at all.
Making connections with an audience isn’t the only reason to turn scientific data into sound. Sometimes, the process of “sonification” - converting data to sound - can help researchers identify certain small changes or disruptions in a pattern in a way that are less obvious with visual representations. A classic example of sonification is the Geiger counter, with which you can hear whether you’re getting closer to a radioactive source.
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