The Air Listening Station: Bridging the gap between Sound Art and Sonification - Sonification examples

Example audio files:

1) aesthetic_direction_01.mp3 --> Initial aesthetic direction/proof of concept created using 1 hour of PM_10 and PM_2.5 data rendered at a 10:1 ratio (i.e. 60 minutes of air quality data results in 6 minutes of audio).  Created using the Ultimate Grainer module of Ajax Sound Studio’s Cecilia 5 audio signal processing environment.

2) sample sonification - original - good AQ - 5x bad AQ.mp3 --> contains several example outputs created using the sonification instrument created in Supercollider presented during the radio art zone broadcast on August 28, 2022

• [0:00] - original field recording before processing
• [0:30] - example of "good" air quality data
• [1:02] - example of "bad" air quality data #1
• [2:10] - example of "bad" air quality data #2
• [2:45] - example of "bad" air quality data #3
• [3:08] - example of "bad" air quality data #4
• [3:38] - example of "bad" air quality data #5