Earth Notes: 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature Music Sandbox

Updated 2025-11-21.
Music synth sandbox for 16WW mains water temperature #music #sonification #temperature

Data Source

The data source for this page is a slowly-growing time series dataset of 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature samples, on a nominal monthly cadence.

These are the 'live' auto-generated even-cadence CSV and MIDI files from all data:

Some manual playing around has already been done by me, resulting in the ring-tone for my mobile phone for example!

Using a GarageBand voice (Japanese String Movement) for the notes, and 12 months to a 4/4 house beat bar:

36s "20230409 house water music jsm" Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • small lo-fi very-low-bandwidth Opus mono clip 70kB (15kbps) +
  2. • lo-fi low-bandwidth MP3 mono clip 192kB (43kbps) ++
  3. • reduced-bandwidth Opus stereo clip 523kB (118kbps) ++
  4. • MP3 stereo clip 840kB (191kbps) +++
  5. • hi-fi lossless FLAC stereo clip 3651kB (830kbps) +++++

This is available under a Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. See also the SoundCloud copy.

Synth Sandbox

The intention is for this page to become a playpen for music based on this data.

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