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MEDITATION THREE DATA

Mapping: As we discovered last week when we attempted to sonify the EEG data, mapping is an incredibly important aspect of the composition using data mining. Taking some data from the USGS server, do a musical sketch where you sonify the data using a Csound opcode we've never tried in class (e.g. not oscil, pluck, or soundin). Start off with the Csound example posted at the end of the documentation for the opcode, then write a score to make some sound out of the data. You can use a brief seismic reading which you map note for note, or you can write some code to read a data file into Processing to generate a score.
Bring in what you come up with (as well as an explanation of your mapping choices) and we'll give it a spin!

I am thinking about using NOAA data for a sound piece instead of earthquake data. I am interested in water pressure, wave heights and speed, I would like it to be pulling it live from one of the DART buoys or by calling a specific location to retrieve the info. Not sure how to do that yet. Or earthquakes in real time are also very interesting.

This is a page of DART data as example.

IDEAS FOR FINAL PERFORMANCE

1. Using typical SAREE patterns and some type of image-to sound software (like Coagula) I would like to generate some interesting sounds to be later manipulated algorithmically.

2. I would like to incorporate, as I stated at the beginning, Tsunami detection algorithms to manipulate or generate sound. The problem with this is that I am not sure yest what kind of library of sounds I need or where to extrapolate that from. This is an example:

3. Using live incoming Tsunami/earthquake data from the NOAA website or others I would like to manipulate and/or generate some interesting soundscapes.

There is a possibility for a small dance performance inside one of the soundscapes playing as a small taste of what my thesis is going to be, and as a small test to see if that is actually the direction I want to go into.