High-frequency trading has been an issue for the stock market and the SEC for some time now, but one enterprising artist decided to use those trades as an inspiration for a rather unique music project. Geraldine Juárez at Simple Mechanisms used the pattern of stock market fluctuations as a musical waveform and pressed the output onto a 10-inch vinyl record. The resulting tunes are surprisingly listenable, considering they were created from stock market changes — though the songs only add up to less than two minutes of music. Beyond the actual music, it's quite a creative piece of engineering — Juárez took the stock fluctuations and printed them on transparency paper, and then drew them into an unspecified piece of music software....
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4669180/the-sounds-of-high-speed-trading-making-stock-moves-into-music
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