The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music

Inspired by The Pudding's lo-pi radio, which turns the digits of pi into an endless stream of lo-fi music, I decided to see if I could create something similar for landscapes. The result is The Sound of Music: an experimental map that turns the shape of the land into a musical composition, where the hills really are alive with the sound of music.The map lets you explore locations around the world and listen to the music generated by their terrain. As the landscape is drawn, notes are played to create a musical interpretation of the contours. You can watch the terrain take shape while listening to the melody it produces. And because the music is generated from the elevation data, different landscapes produce different compositions.The project began as an adaptation of yesterday's 30DayMapChallenge map. I wanted to take that original contour-map experiment a little further, so I switched the elevation data over to Mapterhorn. This means the map is no longer limited to the particular…

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