Lots of fun.<p>This really needs to be properly EQ'd though. Watch these tutorials, and you will be able to make the thing sound 10x better with ~30 minutes work. It doesn't matter that the tutorials are for guitar music and are using specific EQ plugins, the advice is universal. Once your spectrum is less saturated, you'll be able to dial back the limiting as well.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNYBbPAvKE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNYBbPAvKE</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-PjWts3nI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-PjWts3nI</a>
I've done about 4 years of research on sonification, which is using non-speech audio to represent patterns in data (<a href="http://mags.acm.org/interactions/20120102/?pg=37#pg37" rel="nofollow">http://mags.acm.org/interactions/20120102/?pg=37#pg37</a> for some specifics). This article is a subset of sonification in some ways, since we're representing some quantitative data using auditory parameters.<p>There's an entire class of scenarios where conventional HCIs can't represent data for analysis: where people have an occupied visual sense (doctors during surgery), where people are mobile, where people are overloaded by visual data (stock analysts), where the visual sense isn't suited for extracting data from noise (during the Voyager 2 mission), etc. We tend to rely only on our visual sense for communicating data, and as we start using computers for data display in more places, we're reaching the limitations of conventional HCI.<p>My research was on proving the viability of sonification - looking at the accuracy of comprehension, the cognitive and physiological processes, demonstrating shared mental processes with visual graph comprehension, etc. It's still something I'd love to revisit and commercialize someday.
Funny, if you actually sampled an entire trading day, you would hear the "drop" around 2PM.<p>There are some traders that use sound alerts when trading short term, either using alerts on the NYSE TICK, or aggregating when certain companies are being hit on the bid or ask.
It'd be fun to have something like this generated live for use as an ambient information source.<p>Also, Data MIDI Lab looks awesome! Now I know what to do with my weekend.
Can't play the audio today because of the snow - I use a satellite internet, so I can't comment on the music, sorry. I trade though, and I also compose, so this project got my attention. What I'd like to add is this: My focus on trade in this period is penny stocks. From my own experiences and what others say, I can say Apple and other blue chips usually don't move as "dramatically" as much cheaper penny stocks. It's in the math. If a current price is in the $500 range, like Apple, changes of a few $s only represent less than 1%, whereas in penny or sub- penny stocks, a single trade can move the price up or down a few pennies or less that can easily amount to 10, 30 or bigger % change. Movements like that going back and forth within very short period sometimes resemble needle-sharp alien teeth, it's funny to watch. Price % changes are that much crazier, and likewise the volumes when a stock suddenly gets attentions etc. I'd imagine that music generated off that kind of data can present different kinds of compositional experiences.
This made me think about procedurally generated / data feed based game music.. how about never ending background music that's never (almost) the same than before?
We at Adcloud.com – a technology provider for exchange of online advertising – did something similar with our Real-Time Data (clicks, conversions, retargeting, impressions etc) in our last Hackathon. WIP, though ;)<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/teemow/adcloud-music" rel="nofollow">https://soundcloud.com/teemow/adcloud-music</a>
lol You've succeeded. Well it sounds awful. Just the way dubstep does.<p>For your next project try using "paul stretch" to create a serene ambient track. It's software that allows you to stretch audio tracks from 101% to 800% and up. Here's Justin Bieber's song "U Smile" 800% slower <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M</a><p>You could use all sorts of data to make ambient music. Heck, call it Ambient Data and release numerous tracks. Make dark themed tracks with rain in the background and ambient music created using how many wars have happened in human history and when.
Related: Charts Music, made with Microsoft Songsmith: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc</a>