Spiders Song
Spiders Song is a Future Ecologies podcast story about a quest to hear the greatest symphony on Earth: the music of evolution. Along the way, get to know some of nature’s most surprising musicians — the paradise jumping spiders. Can you hear the patterns of evolution? Data sonification, the sonic equivalent of data visualization, has found applications in many scientific fields, but never before in phylogenetics: the study of evolutionary relationships. This is the story of many related species expressed as music.
This example has been tailor made to a particular group of organisms: the paradise jumping spiders (genus Habronattus), but it is driven by a generative music system that may be adapted for any other tree of life: any group of species, or phylogenetic dataset.
