Accounts Music

Accounts Music

I’ve been making various pieces of data into music and visualisations this year and last. This is a post to bring them together in one place. The first was accounts data from the Cube (here’s a previous post on the topic).

(Can Jekyll do iframes? let’s see)

Click on the iframe with sound up to hear it (click again to stop it). Overall, where the data is less complex I’ve added more musical trills. These are all in the key of C.

Cube end of year accounts

Each blob is a week, with the number of sides to the blobs representing the number of events, and the colour of the blob representing the type of event that brought in the most money that week. The colour of the background represents the season.

Radar charity participant data

A friend asked me to look at data from the charity they work with. This one is about participation over time, month by month over multiple years. The number of side to the blobs are the number of hospitals involved in recruitment and the size and colour is related to the number of participants. You can clearly see the impact of Covid.

Cybernetics society end of year accounts

A another friend asked me to have a go with this accounts data. This was the final version with loud crunchy synths, which are my favourite. As with the Cube Accounts, it’s only income, not expenditure!

Bonus Cube Accounts from Dec 2024

This one is more interesting as it’s a collaboration with the talented Mr Hopkinson and so it is funny (it’s the one we last showed there as a trailer). A video this time, based on the same code but enhanced.