Presentations / Interviews

A collection of presentations, interviews, and online events all about data sonification.

Presentations

• "Making Your Data Sing: Data Sonification for Beginners - #LoveData24" — Digital Scholarship Hub at McGill University Presentation by Marcela Y. Isuster (coordinator at Digital Scholarship Hub), covering the concepts of data sonification, examples, easy-to-follow tool demos, best practices, and resources.

• “Data Sonification: ‘Charts’ for Radio?” — Jordan Wirfs-Brock via National Press Foundation Presentation by Jordan Wirfs-Brock covering a wide range of sonification concepts, interactive examples, accessible tool demos, and sonification research.

• “Data Sonification and the Power of Audio” — Aura Walmer, AIGA Design Conference, 2024 Presentation by Aura Walmer prepared for the 2024 AIGA Design Conference, exploring data sonification in the context of design and journalism and covering a range of examples.

• “Introducing noisycharts: graphs and data you can hear” — Guardian Australia Announcement from The Guardian about NoisyCharts developed by Nick Evershed

Podcasts & Conversations

• “How to Turn Data into Music — Featuring Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick” Data Viz Today Podcast Interview with Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick, conducted by Alli Torban.

• Sound and Data Podcast, hosted by Scot Gresham Lancaster Interviews with a wide range of sonification practitioners, including: Brian Foo, Pauline Oliveros, Jordan Wirfs-Brock, Chris Chafe, Carla Scaletti, and more.

• Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast, hosted by Dallas Taylor

  • Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music”

  • Epileptic Symphonies: Turning seizures into music (with Brian Foo, the Data-Driven DJ)

• The Unimaginable: How Gravitational Waves (Literally) Rocked Our World WNYC Studios Story that features astrophysicist Dr. Wanda Díaz Merced, who shares her experience of going blind and learning how to listen to the stars.

• “Miriam Quick & Duncan Geere – Loud Numbers – a Data Sonification Podcast” Data Vis Lisboa Interview with Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick, moderated by Caroline Doyé & Alli Torban.

• "In Conversation with Duncan Geere — Ambient music video podcast" Two Round Robbins Interview with Duncan Geere about data and art, especially in the context of climate communication.

Events

• The Loud Numbers Sonification Festival 2021 — Online Festival, June 5, 2021 Live-streamed sonification festival hosted by the creators The Loud Numbers Podcast (Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick) in celebration of the launch of their first podcast season. Features several presentations as well as Q&A sessions with sonification developers.