This project was started with the question of whether data could be shared locally in art & design. The focus of this project is not just on using data as a dynamic visual variable in a flexible identity design, but also as an approach to auditory identity design through data sonification.
From July 17 to August 15 in 2017, I gathered data around the same time between 12 and 1 in the afternoon, with low-tech such as mobile phone, some applications, sound recorder, UV detector and thermometer. It was taken in Paris park, which is located in the center of Mok-dong, Seoul.
I collected 1) temperature, humidity, UV index as weather-related data at a particular time and 2) measured noise level for 5 minutes as well as 3) recorded sound around the park. 4) I also took pictures and videos of the sky above the park. After gathering all 30day-data, refined using spreadsheets and R studio.
I used weather-related data to visualize and convert into sound in the identity design system. Other data types were additionally divided into 2 groups: sound, videos, pictures in the visual system and noise levels, photos in sonification.
From the data of <30days of summer in Mok-dong>, I had used numerical values from temperature, humidity, UV index separately to sonify each, and combined them later with different tones, duration, and speed under the concept of the project with altering the visual concept aurally. When these sonified sounds were combined, because of the correlation among the values (correlation between temperature and humidity / temperature and UV index), they sound harmonious in a continuous stream. The sound of data tells this correlation more directly with the harmony. And I put these results on the long play record.