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Sonification

Sonification

When we think about science, we usually think about something we can see: perhaps a model of an atom, or the dividing of cells, or a graph of data. It’s not often that we listen to science. That’s exactly what Mark Ballora, a professor in the Penn State School of Music, does.

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