Solar Eclipse Data Sonification

The motivation behind this piece is to study how natural phenomena can be sonified and understood through sound and spatialization techniques. I procured the eclipse path coordinates from the NASA website and read this data into a MAX/MSP patch. In MAX/MSP, I used 3rd-order ambisonics and provided the longitude and latitude coordinates of the eclipse path as azimuth and elevation for the ambisonics-encoder. I used a drone sound file and mapped it to the path of the eclipse. As the eclipse is moving in time from one location to another, so would the sound of the drone move in the same manner. I finally created a binaural mix of 16-channel ambisonics-encoded sound files in Reaper using the BinauralDecoder (IEM) plugin.

Related links ~ GitHub | Sound file