Hubsound
Seeing the post “ Habr dies? ” Filled with beautiful graphics and tragic pathos, I wondered: how could all this beauty sound? When I had some free time, I downloaded the data and set Sonic Pi on it. Now I know how Habrahabr sounds, and I want to share this funny experience.
Initially, I came up with this alignment: asterisks are responsible for the pitch, views for the duration of a note, comments for the volume, “like” marks add ring modulation, “don't like” marks reduce the volume of sound (gverb / damp), and the number of posts per day affects on temp. For posts of users and companies there are different sets of synthesizers (random selection).
After cleaning up the data in Excel (I removed extra columns and obvious inconsistencies like 32767 plus signs), I sketched a script and listened to what happened. It turned out so-so: firstly, there is too much data, and it would take several hours to listen at a very fast pace; secondly, the variation in the parameters is too high, so it sounds very monotonous, especially at the beginning.
Then I tried to break down the data by months, and after several experiments I changed the dependencies a little - the number of views influenced both the pitch and the duration, the asterisks add an echo effect, I refused the tempo drops because it was awful, and as a result, the number of posts per day sets the height of the starting tone.
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Noises are included in the set of synthesizers for users and companies - there must be some share of slag in the variety of posts. Well, just for fun, all this accompanies the Euclidean bits based on the previous article .
So, "Habr - the beginning":
Not too impressive, is it? (there was just one entry in the first file)
At first, the habr sounds rather monotonous, but by January 2007 it enters into some mysterious avant-garde rhythm:
A year after launch, the bass line is already moving pretty fast, and high notes appear:
By the beginning of 2008, occasionally some interesting moves can be heard:
The pace gradually accelerates:
And by 2009, everything sounds quite vigorously (although the noise is a bit too much):
But this is not the limit:
By the end of 2011, companies are starting to appear at a fast pace - their sounds have a different timbre:
From May 2012 it turns out that fast paced is not what it was before:
and by the end of the year it becomes especially noticeable:
Although there are periods of some decline:
On track 13, I decided to reduce the tempo, because it became very difficult to listen further. This is March 2014, here you can hear a lot of company sounds, and the overall activity is quite high:
March 2015 gives an even more dense texture, and more interesting, in my opinion:
The last month in the data - February 2016 - sounds quite good (or I'm just used):
The code can be viewed here: github.com/hippus/habrasound
I hope no one will take this post too seriously. In the end, anyone can download the code and make Habr sound according to his expectations. There is no limit to perfection, especially in those things that are made out of curiosity and the desire to have some fun.
UPD (which aikixd and media_magnit will probably be interesting): Wolodya Dzyuba writes us
Hello, hippus !
I can not leave a comment on the article on Habré - I will leave it here. It seems such things are called " sonification ." I saw a presentation somewhere about how network traffic is being voiced / sonified so that admins can compute viruses or DDoSs, something like this by ear.
Initially, I came up with this alignment: asterisks are responsible for the pitch, views for the duration of a note, comments for the volume, “like” marks add ring modulation, “don't like” marks reduce the volume of sound (gverb / damp), and the number of posts per day affects on temp. For posts of users and companies there are different sets of synthesizers (random selection).
After cleaning up the data in Excel (I removed extra columns and obvious inconsistencies like 32767 plus signs), I sketched a script and listened to what happened. It turned out so-so: firstly, there is too much data, and it would take several hours to listen at a very fast pace; secondly, the variation in the parameters is too high, so it sounds very monotonous, especially at the beginning.
Then I tried to break down the data by months, and after several experiments I changed the dependencies a little - the number of views influenced both the pitch and the duration, the asterisks add an echo effect, I refused the tempo drops because it was awful, and as a result, the number of posts per day sets the height of the starting tone.
')
Noises are included in the set of synthesizers for users and companies - there must be some share of slag in the variety of posts. Well, just for fun, all this accompanies the Euclidean bits based on the previous article .
So, "Habr - the beginning":
Not too impressive, is it? (there was just one entry in the first file)
At first, the habr sounds rather monotonous, but by January 2007 it enters into some mysterious avant-garde rhythm:
A year after launch, the bass line is already moving pretty fast, and high notes appear:
By the beginning of 2008, occasionally some interesting moves can be heard:
The pace gradually accelerates:
And by 2009, everything sounds quite vigorously (although the noise is a bit too much):
But this is not the limit:
By the end of 2011, companies are starting to appear at a fast pace - their sounds have a different timbre:
From May 2012 it turns out that fast paced is not what it was before:
and by the end of the year it becomes especially noticeable:
Although there are periods of some decline:
On track 13, I decided to reduce the tempo, because it became very difficult to listen further. This is March 2014, here you can hear a lot of company sounds, and the overall activity is quite high:
March 2015 gives an even more dense texture, and more interesting, in my opinion:
The last month in the data - February 2016 - sounds quite good (or I'm just used):
The code can be viewed here: github.com/hippus/habrasound
I hope no one will take this post too seriously. In the end, anyone can download the code and make Habr sound according to his expectations. There is no limit to perfection, especially in those things that are made out of curiosity and the desire to have some fun.
UPD (which aikixd and media_magnit will probably be interesting): Wolodya Dzyuba writes us
Hello, hippus !
I can not leave a comment on the article on Habré - I will leave it here. It seems such things are called " sonification ." I saw a presentation somewhere about how network traffic is being voiced / sonified so that admins can compute viruses or DDoSs, something like this by ear.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/278915/
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