River Choir: Sonifiyng live river sensor data in Max/MSP.

Built for Elizabeth McTernan’s project Meandering River (Nitrate Choir), this patch takes live data from 32 sensors placed throughout Iowa state watersheds and uses them to control a virtual choir. On top of automatic control artists could control the program using a midi controller.

Here is an example of sound it would create with sensor data and later manipulating voices manualy: