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March 13, 2011 02:46 am PST

Japan quake seismic wave data, "sonified" (audio)

Sonification of the great Japan earthquake , by Micah Frank. Tectonic is a realtime seismic analysis and sound synthesis system. Sound is created in realtime by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Symbolic Sound's Kyma processes earthquake data that is translated into sound synthesis parameters. A USGS XML feed is parsed into numerous fields including magnitude, elevation, time of day and geographical coordinates. These data are mapped to synthetic spectrums and processed by granular, aggregate and subtractive synthesis. Earthquakes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11, 2011 by Micah Frank (BB Submitterator, hanks, Speedo)...


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