Chapter 26 Making Synthesized Music from Your Data
Do you enjoy the sounds that wind chimes extract from a soft breeze? How about the gentle splashing of raindrops, the soothing sound of falling water, or the roar of surf?
These appealing natural sounds provide only a hint of the vast range of musical compositions hidden away in many kinds of data. Lately I’ve been having lots of fun transforming data I’ve collected into natural music and posting the results on www.youtube.com/user/fmims. Various methods for making sounds from data are available. Let’s use them to convert data into music.
Using Mathematica to Create Music
George Hrabovsky is an amateur physicist who uses Wolfram Mathematica software (www.wolfram.com/mathematica/) in his theoretical ...
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