Things are getting quieter, dogs are getting braver, birds might follow.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day 8, Sunday
Stay inside but keep your window wide open, especially if it’s Sunday.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day 7, Saturday, first day of Spring
Of voices populating windows.
A good thing of these days is that I am finally seeing my neighbours, from window to window. Nobody used to lean out of the window in this barrio of mine, before.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day6, Friday
Day 6 of lockdown from my window in Getxo, Basque Country. It sounds someone is still flying out from here. Or in, who knows.
Forgot to take the picture at noon, with the recording. Things that happen when you are locked down with three kids aged from 11 years to 8 months.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day5, San José
It’s a public holiday today in Spain, father’s day, San José.
And strangely enough, something in the air makes us feel it’s a holiday even if nothing really changes holidays or not, these days.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day4
18th of March, 2020. I never noticed how much human voice resonated in the little plaza in front of our window. Interesting how the still image always look the same, day after day, while soundscape is so varied.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day 3
Noon, in front of my house. Constructions (?), distant music…life that a picture does not show.
COVID-19 lockdown soundscape: Day 2
Day 2, 12p.m., from my window in Las Arenas, Getxo, the Basque Country, Spain.
Sounds like too many people are still around.
Day 2, COVID-19 lockdown, Basque Country, Spain.
COVID-19 Lockdown: one soundscape a day
With a good part of humanity in lockdown due to COVID-19 epidemics, our cities have gone quieter. I’m recording a soundscape a day, everyday at the same time, same place as a sonic postcard to the future from these strange days.
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A brief stream of consciousness on two COVID-19 data sonification projects realised in the past days. Will keep monitoring for more to come!
Image credit: Eric Allix Rogers
Read MoreAn empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest
A sound art sonification project from 2017, that focused around the problem of uncontrolled, autonomous reforestation in vast areas of Central and Southern Italy. We decided to sonify the “forest that will be”, if humans keep abandoning those areas to move towards more ubranized centers, leaving century old agricultural practices behind.
Image credit: Renars
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A design-led project to help security operators in digital/physical systems to identify and act in face of anomalies caused by cyber attacks.
Image credit: Michael Coghlan
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Second part on my discoveries on the topic of AI - based alert systems, and how they should leverage - not inhibit - human experience experts’ judgement.
Image source Present & Correct
Read MoreIs sonifying an alarm a design (wicked) problem? On Data Sonification for real time process monitoring/1
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On the difference between alarm and alerts and the potentiality of using sonification to design process monitoring systems based on Artificial Intelligence.
Image Credit Jörg Schubert
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