Sonification of Covid-19 deaths

February 3, 2021

Topic

Data Art / coronavirus, sonification

This is interesting:

What does 425,000 Covid deaths sound like? I was inspired by this article by @LazaroGamio and @LaurenLeatherby for the NY Times, where they visualized how long to reach another 25k deaths. The piece had a rhythm that made me think of music, so I tried turning the data into sound pic.twitter.com/2YhmgqDZGQ

— carni_dc (@CarniDC) February 1, 2021

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