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Accessibility in Astronomy

In 2019, I was introduced to a community of astronomers who are representing data with sound. This is called sonification. I wrote about a software program developed by the Space Science Telescope Institute that adds

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The Sound of Tennis

During the last week of January 2022, I read several articles about a system that produced 3D sound tracking the movements of a tennis ball in motion. Action Audio transforms spatial data from the Australian

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Hearing the Sound of Light

It’s August and many students are returning to school. I wrote this short post to share the work of my colleagues. Hearing the Sound of Light  is a conversational post that introduces sonification, the process

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Hearing the Light

My colleagues at the SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE  in Baltimore are doing great work on sonification (representing data with sound). They developed a program that adds an audio component to graphs of data. Watch this

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