Duncan Geere, a British data journalist and sonification artist living in Malmö, has carved out a unique niche at the intersection of data, sound, and storytelling. His work transforms large and small datasets into immersive auditory experiences, helping people to feel the emotional contours of a dataset, rather than just its mathematical properties.

As a co-founder of the Loud Numbers data sonification studio, Duncan has worked on projects connected to environmental, financial, legal, biomedical, commercial and even culinary data. In 2021 he transformed a year’s worth of Covid-19 data into a soundtrack for the Museum of London, while in 2022 he collaborated with jazz trombonist Simon Petermann for a performance of climate data at the COP27 summit in Egypt. In 2023, he turned Canada’s extreme wildfire season into a haunting elegy for lost landscapes, and in 2024 he performed a live sonification of The Carrington Event, an extreme solar storm in 1859.

Duncan continues to push the boundaries of data sonification, advocating for its use in scientific communication and artistic expression. His work challenges us to listen to the data that surrounds us in new and meaningful ways.