Andrea Polli (CU lecture; March 18, 2007)

An interesting spiel on the sonification of large-scale data sets. In other words, check out her website. She collaborates w/ scientists (gets their data) and translates it into sound. Like Lita Albuquerque, she's been to Antarctica on an art grant. She uses weather stations and, for example, and maps temperature data to pitch, producing sounds of varying intensities and frequencies. The actual noises she makes aren't as interesting to me as her process and subject matter, but what she's doing is pretty cool, especially on the web.


Andrea Polli