The Sound of Pandemic
The Sound of Pandemic
An ad perpetuum sonification of Covid-19 news feeds
The Sound of Pandemic is a little project that tries to transpose to sound what happened (and what is still happening) in Italy and in the rest of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, by generating a kind of never ending stream of audio events which are - on their side - the result of a sonification of the most known italian news feeds.
For the project in question a little server that periodically acquires and sonifies up-to-date RSS feeds has been deployed; furthermore, thanks to a simple asynchronous HTTP connection to this latter (check the paragraph below), it is possible to listen for the result of the mentioned sonification in almost real time (the overall average latency amount is just of some seconds).
Notes about the audio stream:
- the audio stream here transmitted fulfills audio CD technical specifications (stereo channels, 44.1kHz, 16bit uncompressed) and so it is recommended to use a broadband DSL connection to avoid stream interruptions
- the streaming node is currently using a raw validation and anti-flooding mechanism. If it seems something is not working properly, just reload the page and retry. However, if the issue persists, the streaming node could be temporarily down; in this case, I apologize for the inconvenience but considering the novelty of this project it could be definitely affected by some bugs.
Audio streaming interface