Hacking Science Coding, Big Data + Science @ Penn State

UPDATE: Slides and code available at https://github.com/jrimland/supercollider

Friday, March 1 at 1PM, Jeff Rimland presents: “It Might Get Loud” — An Introduction to Sonification and SuperCollider.

Data-driven audio synthesis is becoming an increasingly useful technique for exploring complex data sets and phenomena ranging from the origins of the Universe to the correlation between Twitter and the stock market. SuperCollider is a powerful open-source software tool used by scientists (as well as musicians and sound effect technicians) for a broad variety of audio generation applications. This talk will include an introduction to sonification, a hands-on session for learning the basics of SuperCollider, and a discussion period to provide guidance on applying these techniques to your dataset analysis or audio generation goals.

SuperCollider is freely available for Mac, Windows, and Linux at http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

Note: Please bring headphones if you would like to follow along with the hands-on session!

The session will be held in room 113 (a.k.a. the Cybertorium) in the Penn State Information Sciences and Technology (IST) building from 1-2PM on Friday, March 1.

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