Guides & Tutorials

A collection of data sonification tutorials and guides; some broad, and some tool-specific.

Broad tutorials and guides

Getting Started with Sonification

Google Doc via Decibels Community

These tools will take your data to a new level — or decibel

Jade Khatib via Storybench (Northeastern University School of Journalism)

Design Guidelines for Data Sonification

Nick Evershed (The Guardian), 2024

Tool-specific tutorials

Sonification with Python - How to Turn Data Into Music w Matt Russo (Part 1)

Python + audio editing tutorial with code and files included.

Sonic Pi Cookbook

Guide for parameter mapping in Sonic Pi from the Decibels Community.

Explanations of Astronomy Sonifications made with Astronify

STScI MAST – Space Telescope Science Institute