RecordNumber
3566
Author
Lind, John A.
Crop_Body
John A. Lind
Title of Article
Sandpiles and Synthesizers: Listening to the Discrete Laplacian
Title Of Journal
Bridges
Publication Year
2019
Abstract
There are many visual representations of the dynamical system determined by the action of the discrete Laplace
operator of a graph. In this paper, I present an auditory representation which translates information about the evolving
system into pitch, volume, and timbre data of notes played on a synthesizer. I have implemented the method on square
lattices and recordings of the resulting pieces of music are available online.