The Seismic Sonata:

• Realtime data vertical movement of the earth recorded from the Albequerque, NM, seismic station during the 1994 Northridge, CA, earthquake.
• Audio display facilitates multiple ‘views’ of data.
• Long view.
• Zoom view. (the jewelers lens)
• Metadata: magnitude of zoom view using the audio equivalent of a graphic ‘key’.
• Interrupt/notify listener of a change in zoom magnitude with the strike of a tympani drum.

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