Ever wonder what a volcano sounds like?

The Volcano Listening Project is:

Volcano music, data sonification tools, a bridge between research and art.

Check out some of our ongoing projects, download some tools, get ideas of your own!

Volcano Listening Project Blog

8/10/2024

The Volcano Listening Project album is out on all streaming platorms (iTunes, Spotify, etc). Here is the Bandcamp page, our preferred platform for supporting streaming music. Thanks to Adhyâropa records for putting this out, we're extremely excited to share this project with the world. More details will be posted soon in the Volcano Music section of this site (liner notes and details of the datasets/sonification approaches).

7/15/2024

The Volcano Listening Project album is done! We're so excited to share this collection of musical interpretations of volcanic data (with data sonifications as well as live performances) from around the world. The album will be released by Adhyâropa records, and you can pre-order it today on Bandcamp (the first single is out there and all other streaming platforms). We are making vinyl of this record, which will be available from Adhyâropa in September 2024.

1/14/2024

We did an interview with the Conneticut Public Radio show Audacious with Chion Wolf, available in podcast form HERE. Fun interview and the other guests are well worth checking out as well!

11/11/2023

We were featured in a segment of the CNN International show Tech for Good, season 4, episode 3, which came out today. Check it out on youtube HERE. Featuring new music composed based on the 2021 Fragradaslfjall eruption in Iceland.

6/9/2023

Our article in EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union is out today! Big collaborative effort that showcases a lot of the sonification and visualization tools we've been developing, and applied to data at Kilauea volcano. Read it HERE, and check out the blog post for details and more movies!

4/12/2023

Sense of Place Lecture Series performance, a free improvisation to sonified seismicity leading up to an eruption during 2004 phase of activity at Mt. St. Helens. WATCH ON VIMEO.

1/13/2023

Hawaii Public Radio interview. Short clip and longer extended version, focus on the musical side of the volcano listening project, and the track Hotel Kilauea.

1/10/2022

Long-form interview on new volcano-centered pdocast Volcaknowledge now up! Watch on YouTube, and check out the other episodes - they are great!

4/11/2021

Leif Karlstrom will be featured on the Sunday Sessions show of violinist Gaelynn Lee. Starts at 12 pm PST, live on YouTube (show will be archived).

4/9/2021

New page/post on our sonification and animation of Lone Star Geyser data (two different experiments in 2010 and 2014). This post highlights a new datamovie.

Lone Star Geyser

Please see our article in the Computer Music Journal for more details.

10/15/2020

We've been spotlighted by the National Science Foundation for Earth Science Week! Check out our cameo in the YouTube series "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didnt Hear About"

10/3/2020

New page/post on volcanic "Screams" from Mt. Redoubt, Alaska. Including some videos of direct sonification of seismic data and listening guide.

Mt Redoubt Screams

11/22/2019

We're on NPR All Things Considered! Check out this "Audio Postcard" from member station KLCC in Eugene OR.

11/12/2019

Check out a great University of Oregon web article feature and TV interview from Portland OR that came out in the last couple weeks!

On the blog…

10/21/2019

Hello world! We are live!

Check out our first multimedia collaboration Hotel Kilauea.