Biodiversity Orchestra
100,000 years of declining biodiversity, from estimates of the total biomass of the world’s wild land mammals.
Data source: Our World in Data.
I presented this data sonification piece as part of the Living Data Sonification Concert at Whitman College in November, 2025. Here is a small website I put together for the presentation: https://awalmer.github.io/Living-Data/. This breaks down the design choices and layers of the sonification.
Biodiversity Orchestra:
Exercises in visualizing sounds:
The data:
