Turning Bioacoustics into Generative Code: Building an Interactive Birdsong Synthesiser
How we modeled 8 fundamental avian acoustic motifs using pure Web Audio API DSP, Markov probabilities, and an ambient drone engine.
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Kennebec is the home for Tim Waterfield: an enthusiastic Web Developer & IT specialist with over 25 years of experience delivering large-scale digital platforms, managing systems, databases, and creative audio projects.
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Mapping 34 years of citation data (30+ million publications) to sound to test whether scientific progress is losing its disruptive edge.
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