BB Submitterator’s Speedo writes: “Audio sonification of the incredible seismic activity off the coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11th. Tectonic is a realtime seismic analysis and sound synthesis system. Sound is created in realtime by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Symbolic Sound’s Kyma processes earthquake data that is translated into sound synthesis parameters.”

Earthquakes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11, 2011 by Micah Frank

  Magnitude 5.2 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 2011 March 11 14-10-39 UTC by Micah Frank

Hear more over at Micah Frank’s website and SoundCloud.

the yawniest of yawns

Seems kind of sick posting this!Voyeurism of an aural kind!

That sounds like it could be a Kraftwerk song. Great stuff.

So this is just some jackass’s Max/MSP patch that squirts out random shit with no meaningful connection to the seismic data it uses as a seed?  That might seem interesting to someone who hasn’t spent 2 minutes playing with Max/MSP and realizing how trivial it is to get it to spit out noise with zero aesthetic or musical value. 

Boring. 

Why not speed up the seismic data itself so that it’s audio frequency?  Use a different seismic station for each ear to hear the Earth in stereo.