Climate change has far-reaching consequences, but sometimes it’s hard to understand how those global changes impact your day-to-day experience. One of the noticeable daily effects of climate change is rainfall: In recent years, some areas of the United States have dealt with unusual flooding or droughts. 记者 《OG官网》 scoured more than 100 years of United States rainfall data to determine climate-related trends, but they needed help creating a sensory experience based on the data. That’s where 满帆’s 音频生产 faculty came in.

“To help explain the impact of those precipitation changes, 《OG官网》 turned to 满帆大学 in Winter Park, Florida. Three faculty members at the 音乐 and recording school – 马克·平斯基, Dr. 盖Stulman, and Thomas Owen – agreed to compose original 音乐 for each state based on more than a century of precipitation data,该出版物说。.

It’s no wonder that 满帆 was a resource for 《OG官网》. 学校的 在线音频制作程序 teaches students how to become independent audio creators for careers in games, 音乐, 生活生产, 以及视觉媒体. The classes cover topics like 音乐 business, 技术技能, 生产, 编辑, 混合, and anything else students require to create the audio content they need. Aside from the program’s emphasis on hands-on learning, 它的投入, 经验丰富的教练让它脱颖而出.

“It goes without saying that [our instructors] are creative and technical wizards,” says 音频生产 Program Director Brian Smithers. “The thing that really distinguishes them is whether they can explain their creative and technical processes clearly, and that’s at the heart of our interview process. This sonification project hits the nexus of these three aspects—creativity, 技术技能, and a penchant for making complex information accessible to others.”

其中一个课程主任, 马克·平斯基, created 音乐 to represent rainfall data from five different states. 《OG官网》 included his individual pieces for Arkansas, Iowa, and Michigan in their feature article. His technique emphasized the significant increases or decreases in rainfall over the last few years.

“I took a look at what the top 10 dry years and top 10 wettest years were. I created a simple rhythmic click, which signified the marching of time as the years passed. Every single time you heard a click, that was another year that passed. 以此为基础, 那是非常干燥的一年, 我有一个额外的声音播放, 哪个是较低的音调. 那是一个非常潮湿的年份, 我有一个额外的声音播放, which was a much higher pitched instrument.”

Marc called on his teaching experience to compose his audio. When he helps students break out of writer’s block, he assigns numbers to different notes or chords and tells his students to write a song based on a random string of numbers.

“I used to write just the 音乐al scale for the scale of C on the board, and below each one of those notes I would write a number. And then I would take something like the school's phone number and say, “好吧, 这些数字, 如果你看黑板, can also be referred to as notes’… And it doesn't matter where the numbers come from. I mean, as I said, you can use a phone number. 你可以用信用卡. 你可以用任何东西. It's all up to what you take the numbers from and then you just have to associate those numbers with specific notes.”