The world's first podcast turning data into music. Join Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick as they use data sonification to create a series of original musical compositions from data about climate change, inequality, beer, and more.
Loud Numbers
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Podcast Overview
The world's first podcast turning data into music. Join Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick as they use data sonification to create a series of original musical compositions from data about climate change, inequality, beer, and more.
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4/10/2021
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November 11, 2024
Trailer: On Standby
<p>Coming soon from Loud Numbers: On Standby. </p> <p>Find out more at <a href="https://www.loudnumbers.net/onstandby" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">loudnumbers.net/onstandby</a>.</p>
April 12, 2024
Data is Plural: Canadian Wildfires
<p>If you liked our episode about Canada's intense 2023 wildfire season - Hold the Line, then you'll love this episode of the Data is Plural podcast, who we collaborated with.</p> <p>In it, Jeremy Singer-Vine interviews <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-macnab-469766102/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Macnab</a>, head of Canada's <a href="https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wildland Fire Information System</a>, featured in the <a href="https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-06-14-edition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 14, 2023 edition</a> of the <a href="https://www.data-is-plural.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Data Is Plural newsletter</a>. Bruce describes how his team gathers that information, the obstacles they face, how they deal with uncertainty and varying source quality, and how their approach has changed in the decade since the project launched.</p> <p>Check out more episode of the Data is Plural podcast at <a href="https://podcast.data-is-plural.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://podcast.data-is-plural.com/</a></p>
April 11, 2024
Hold the Line
<p>Canada is no stranger to wildfires. Since the last Ice Age more than eleven thousand years ago, at least half of the country’s huge landmass has been covered in forest, with small, naturally-occurring fires as a vital part of that ecosystem. </p> <p>But the wildfire season of 2023 was different. Climate change, along with decades of short-sighted forest management policy, resulted in the largest fire season in North American history. Over the course of a few short months, a full five percent of the country’s forests were reduced to ash, while smoke caused air pollution emergencies across the whole continent.</p> <p><strong>Hold the Line</strong> is a piece of sound art generated by data from Canada’s 2023 wildfire season. Every single fire that was reported by the <a href="https://ciffc.net/national">Canadian Interagency Forest Fires Centre</a> between 1 April and 30 November is represented by a click sound, with each real-world day playing out over 2.5 seconds of sound. A bass note drops at the start of each new day.</p> <p>Fires started by humans are represented by the distinctive ‘ting’ sound of a Zippo lighter, fires that started naturally by the sound of wood crackling (which sounds like a high click), and fires of unknown cause by a generic ignition sound (which sounds like a low-pitched lighter flicking on). During the worst of the season, you’ll hear more than 220 fires in a single day.</p> <p>The background rumble represents the area of forest that burned that day. The larger the area burned that day, the louder, harsher and longer-lasting the sound. When many large fires burn for days, the rumbles blend into a roar. You’ll also hear a growing stack of musical notes that represent the <em>cumulative</em> area that has been burnt. As more forest is burned over time, more notes are added to the stack.</p> <p>Finally, you’ll hear the voice of <a href="https://www.earthkin.ca/fernyip">Fern Yip</a>. Fern runs the Earthkin Wilderness School in the forests of British Columbia, and narrates the passing of each month — describing her experiences of fire during that season.</p> <p>This episode was a collaboration between Loud Numbers and the <a href="https://podcast.data-is-plural.com/">Data is Plural podcast</a>. In the <a href="https://podcast.data-is-plural.com/2159594/14138514-s2e4-canadian-wildfires">fourth episode of the second season</a> of Data is Plural, you can hear Bruce Macnab, head of Canada’s Wildland Fire Information System, describes how his team gathers information, the obstacles they face, how they deal with uncertainty and varying source quality, and how their approach has changed in the decade since the project launched.</p>
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