Processing Sound From Japan Earthquake

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"For all the info about this go here, http://seeyouinsleep.com/blog/2011/3/16/earthquake-music.html"

"So i decided to be part of this little ablum via the monome fourms to help with getting donations for the victiams in Japan. The album is being put together by remixing Micah Frank's sound work processesing earthquake seismic data which is translated into sound synthesis parameters via USGA xml feed."

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

The above by Micah Frank was featured on PBS.org here.

"What would an earthquake sound like if we could hear it?

Micah Frank, a sound programmer from Brooklyn, has attempted to answer that question by producing aural interpretations of the seismic activity from Japan’s earthquake. Frank is the founder of the Tectonic Project, which aggregates earthquake data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and turns it into sound sculptures in real time. These soundscapes paint a chilling aural portrait of disasters like the one in Japan.

'I listen to some of these, and they are really sort of haunting,' Frank said in an interview Friday."

You might remember Micah Frank from his recent release TECTONIC previously featured here.