The final show of the Esch2022 project “The Sound of Data – Science meets Music” which took place in December 2022 at Rockhal was a huge success with more than 400 participants. The videos of this event are now available.
For this project, researchers from the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) collected scientific data and collaborated with musicians to create sounds and music. For this, the musicians were introduced to the method of sonification during The Sound of Data artist residency at the Rocklab.
The outcome of this creative and innovative process was performed by musicians during a final show. For everybody, who wants to hear what data can sound like but who missed the event: you can now have a look at the concert videos.
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About The Sound of Data – Where Science meets Music
The Esch2022 project The Sound of Data – a collaborative endeavour by the University of Luxembourg, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and Centre de Musiques Amplifiées, Rockhal – aimed at bringing together the worlds of science and music in Belval. More precisely, it aimed at transforming scientific data into music, using the innovative and experimental approach of data sonification.
The contributions of members of the University of Luxembourg were wide ranging and spectacular: Oliver Glassl Emmanuel Defaycollaborated with Cosme Milesi-Brault and (FSTM) from LIST in collecting traffic data from roads in and around Belval – together they collected more than 1,500 hours of audio material as well as around 200,000 lines of different traffic data points. This data was sonified by All Reitz Reserved, SpudBencer, Tessy Troes, and Theerens Cousins.
Stefan Krebs and Lars Wieneke (C2DH) provided the musicians with data from digitized daily newspapers, covering approximately 100 years from 1850 onwards. This dataset was taken on by Catherine Elsen, Virgilio Fernandez, and Slumbergaze. Pol Belardi also sonified historical data, which he himself collected and transcribed manually.
Hugo Parlier and Bruno Teheux (DMATH), in their project ReShape, crowdsourced over 20,000 drawings which Hester Bolle, Thomas Evans (Timelord) and Mike von der Nahmer sonified in very different ways.
Djamila Aouada and Enjie Ghorbel (SnT) provided the artists with data of a synthetic 3D human body scan – this was basis for a commissioned piece of Valery Vermeulen (to be published later).
If you want to learn more about the sound of data, have a look at www.thesoundofdata.lu or follow The Sound of Data on Instagram.