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sound-art _ data sonification _ electronic music
covid-19 data sonification
data sonification
covid-19
web audio
In the COVID-19 era, information is made of digits. New data, total data, suspect cases, confirmed cases, recovered patients, deceased patients – and for each, a number. But can we truly get the meaning of those numbers, at a time when all we’re surrounded by, day after day, is the same 9 figures in different orders?
"COVID-19 DATA SONIFICATION" puts those numbers into sounds. Extracting official data of the Italian situation from covid19api, a specifically designed algorithm turns the daily numbers of confirmed cases, recovered patients and new deaths into ever-evolving sound waves. Day by day, as the Covid-19 situation evolves, the numbers change, and so do the frequencies of the sounds that we hear, abandoning the initial harmony.
The result? Sound waves clashing relentlessly, generating interferences with only the smallest change. An entropic journey that – only by stirring us – can clear up what we struggle to see.
The web-audio installation has been included in the 2020 edition of Piksel Fest and in the 2021 edition of BEAST FEaST.
