Students Create Music From Nature Data
By Jim Schaefer The article I read on the STEM Education page was about a project made by a group of students from Michigan Tech University in Houghton, MI. The students were Paul Kirby, Thomas Conran, Collin Doerr-Newton, and Mason Pew. The used the data that has been captured on Isle Royale since 1958 and turned it into music and art. The received the data that is in the hands of Vucetich. They split the project into three sound categories: moose, wolves, and climate. They believed their project would also be a way for people to learn about the work that has been done on the island in the middle of Lake Superior. Their inspiration was from a man named John Luther Adams, who made music from the sounds of nature. Once they collected data from the three categories, moose, wolves, and climate, they began changing the data into musical notes. When listening, you can hear the soaring highs and the bottomed-out lows of the moose. The high screeches and sudden declines of wolf packs can also be heard. The changing weather patterns such as rain to gusts of wind can also be heard. At first the project was only able to be seen on campus until another student, Matt Vaught, decided to make a website for the project. Now the beautiful sounds can be heard by anyone. Student-centered learning was involved in the success of the project. The college students found something that interested them, which was Isle Royale. They found away to make a project out of their interest, which was turning the data on wolves, moose, and climate, into music. Then they shared their findings first to their school and then put it onto the internet for the world to see. Their project is a great example of how students do much better on projects that are based on something that interests them. I went onto the website to listen to a few of the clips and have attached the link below. www.isleroyalewolf.org/sonification
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AuthorPeyton Johnson Archives
April 2017
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