Fish-Hacking
I am currently exploring the sonification of weakly electric fish, such as the Black Ghost Knifefish, partially cos it's fun (see ENKI, by Tony Hall). but there is examples of using the frequency analysis to monitor water quality
Contents
Basic Setup
Nice travelling edition for the HLab14 Tourdigrade
Fish 2 pd Interface
First Sonification experiment
Please note that the clicks are not communication, but wiggles in the wiring... see chrips in the pic above, detected with pd.
Merchandise
I am planning to make some nice crafted device for selling it in some local aquarium stores in yogyakarta. and of course a t-shirt
Literature on Biomonitoring using weakly electric fish
- M. Thomas et al, Water Research Volume 30, Issue 12, December 1996
Real-time biomonitoring of water contamination by cyanide based on analysis of the continuous electric signal emitted by a tropical fish: Apteronotus albifrons [1]
- J. Clausen et al, Environmental Technology, Volume 33, Issue 10, 2012
Weakly electric fish for biomonitoring water quality [2]