It's Friday, and that means it's time for the Loud Numbers devlog - your weekly update on how we (Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere) are building the world's first data sonification podcast.
We've had a bunch of new subscribers lately, so let's quickly run through the basics. We've identified six great stories that we want to tell through the medium of sound and data. That means finding data for the stories, mapping it onto different parameters of sound ( like volume, pitch, and texture), and then writing a script that not only explains the sonification system but also tells the story.
It's a longer, more complex process than we originally anticipated when we started this grand adventure, and we're doing it in our spare time, so we're expecting that it'll be released sometime in early 2021. You'll know when we're getting close because, well, we'll tell you. In this newsletter.
In the meantime, we'll keep you posted with how things are going - what we've been working on each week and what's going on in the wider field of sonification.
