#sonify

Let’s make equations musical.  Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowledge. You can make two-dimensional x-y math equations audible – or sonify them – by translating the x-values to time and the y-values to the keys of a piano.  If you can’t play them on the piano yourself, we can use the free web app Chordinates! by Pios Labs to do it instead.  Listen to the sound of coordinates, linear equations, polynomials, trigonometric functions, and random distributions of notes on the piano, and analyze their patterns. Then take the audio review quiz at the end, complete with extended creative and technical challenges.  Got your own reactions to this episode? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Related to this episode:  

• Chordinates! beta, a free web by Pios Labs: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/

• Coordinate plane, from Desmos.com: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/q8mwzeylbk

• HCI Beyond the GUI, book by Philip Kortum: https://www.amazon.com/HCI-Beyond-GUI-Nontraditional-Technologies/dp/0123740177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241987101&sr=8-1

To everyone: An Art Challenge for April!!

Pick a Muppet, ANY Muppet -from Sesame Street, Muppet Show, whatever - and turn it into a Sonic character!

If the #Muppet you pick has a penchant, see if you can find something in the Sonic-verse that might match!

For example, Gonzo! Because he likes chickens, as a Sonic character it makes sense he would be a friend of the Flickies!

I picked him for this challenge because he's the one I remember liking the most from Muppet Babies back in the day.

Anyway, have fun! I look forward to seeing what everybody does! So have at it and Sonify those Muppets!!