Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
This is a more in-depth look at the interesting audio derived from the temperature logging experiment.
More in-depth analysis can be found in this paper: tmc.nitrocosm.com/share/temper_analysis.pdf
All of the data and files involved: github.com/nitrocosmstudios/temperature-sonification
About five years ago, I began logging the temperature in my office with a Raspberry Pi and a cheap USB thermometer. Not too long ago, I decided to play around with the data it had gathered and eventually came up with the idea of converting the temperature samples to audio.
At first, the audio just sounded like static noise but, after revisiting the data after some more time had passed, I began to hear things in the noise...
Was it my imagination?
0:00 Introduction - Wave / Cycle Patterns
0:53 The Temper Wave Project
1:38 Temperature Sampling Method
2:01 Math Warning!
2:33 What we would expect to hear?
3:26 Not what you'd expect...
3:45 What WAS that...?
4:23 Y'know... about radio interference
5:32 Pareidolia
6:21 Here's the full audio
7:15 The "speech" parts
7:39 What else could it be?
8:20 It's 2.4 million times slower
8:53 Can radio waves be slowed down?
9:20 What do you hear, if anything?
9:47 Conclusion
This is a more in-depth look at the interesting audio derived from the temperature logging experiment.
More in-depth analysis can be found in this paper: tmc.nitrocosm.com/share/temper_analysis.pdf
All of the data and files involved: github.com/nitrocosmstudios/temperature-sonification
About five years ago, I began logging the temperature in my office with a Raspberry Pi and a cheap USB thermometer. Not too long ago, I decided to play around with the data it had gathered and eventually came up with the idea of converting the temperature samples to audio.
At first, the audio just sounded like static noise but, after revisiting the data after some more time had passed, I began to hear things in the noise...
Was it my imagination?
0:00 Introduction - Wave / Cycle Patterns
0:53 The Temper Wave Project
1:38 Temperature Sampling Method
2:01 Math Warning!
2:33 What we would expect to hear?
3:26 Not what you'd expect...
3:45 What WAS that...?
4:23 Y'know... about radio interference
5:32 Pareidolia
6:21 Here's the full audio
7:15 The "speech" parts
7:39 What else could it be?
8:20 It's 2.4 million times slower
8:53 Can radio waves be slowed down?
9:20 What do you hear, if anything?
9:47 Conclusion
