hapticity

LHCSound is a site where you can listen to sonified data from the Large Hadron Collider. Some thoughts:

• That’s one untidy heap of a website. Is this how it feels to be inside the mind of a brilliant physicist?
• The name “LHCSound” refers to “Csound”, a programming language for audio synthesis and music composition. But how many of their readers will make the connection?
• If they are expecting their readers to know what Csound is, then their explanation of the process they used for sonification falls way short. I want to know the details of how they mapped their data to synthesis parameters.
• What great sampling material this will make. I wonder how long before we hear electronic music incorporating these sounds.