Initial Ideas

Each country as a discrete sonic event - beacon defined by the dimension we choose

Metaphor discussion: * population/area/mass to loudness

• key features variables to pitch/brightness
• geographical information - triggering the sound events

Different sorting mechanisms (south/north, all dimensions

Choosing the dimensions:

• female life expectancy - decay time / duration
• fertility rate - density, richness of the sound events
• illiteracy - brightness, precise thought
• more maybe

Lengths of the events - 1min overall

Problem of metaphors: depend on the view of the domain. Danger that metaphors imply commonsense but naive or biased views. E.g. illiteracy might not give any information about intelligence.

Experimenting

starting with simple sound - sinus grain for sound event

playing with grain envelopes / density / sustain

terminology: signature contains grains and represents one country

each grain might have a sweep inside (modulating the frequency in the grains)

order latitude

problems with treating the nils (i.e. missing values in the data)

Concluding

• fertility - grain count
• life expectancy - signature duration
• illiteracy - sweep ratio in grains
• access to drinking water - pitch

Evaluation

What Next?

more dimensions in the grains