Diving straight into it, we’ve got:

• A projection-mapping on the façade of the Design Museum for the OFFF Festival May 8-9-10 - catch sneak-peeks here and here

• An exhibition in Barcelona for which we used AI to decode gestures from historical archives - read our article about it to learn more!

• A new photography exhibition on the raw reality of Palestinian childhoods, through images and data, that will be touring through Europe (from Brussels, to Madrid, Copenhagen, and more)

• Talks lined up in Barcelona & Bosnia-Herzegovina

• The Mutare plenària 2025 event on AI that we’re co-organizing with Fundació Carulla, in Barcelona, on the 22nd of May

  And perhaps most exciting of all: we’re opening our first-ever installation at London’s Barbican Centre as part of the Feel the Sound exhibition (open to the public from May 22 to August 31).

  The piece is called Forever Frequency and it’s an immersive ode to music and memory—how sound gets woven into the moments we live. Here’s what it’ll look like - without spoiling ahead of the reveal, think of it as a follow-up to our 2016 project The Time Keeper, this time with a full sound system.

  Which is why, fittingly, this month’s newsletter is all about music—as storytelling, as code, as visual language. Here’s what we’re listening to, clicking on, and admiring.

🎶 Music Videos of the Month

Who said music videos had to be linear—or worse, literal? These ones invite your cursor, your curiosity, and sometimes even your spreadsheet skills to join the band. From Spotify’s Spreadbeats, a pop anthem built entirely in Google Sheets, to the dreamy, interactive narratives of A Number From the Ghost—these are music videos as playgrounds. Narrative, code, and rhythm stitched into something far more alive than a YouTube autoplay.

🎧 Code of the Month

There’s something tender about the idea that sound—so fluid, so human—can be coded, live, line by line. As if sensibility itself could be scripted—like in this live ambient set coded in real-time using Sonic Pi by Sam Aaron. Think algorithm meets analog mood. You can hear the code breathe, watch the syntax pulse. A lovely reminder that even logic loops can lull you into a trance.

🎮 Game of the month

Discovered through Neal Agarwal’s delightful “Just for Fun” corner of the web (if you didn’t know it before, here it is - a repository of all kinds of pages and games on the Internet, and you’re welcome), this audio visual generator lets you sketch melodies on a graph. It’s half game, half instrument, and 100% delightful. You’ll find yourself drawing loops like doodles, composing tiny tunes with lines and dots, remixing play and pattern as if sound were a toy.

📊 Data story of the month

The Pudding’s Billboard time machine charts 60 years of pop chart history, letting you scan through the top songs of any week since 1960. It’s mesmerizing to watch trends rise and fall, like tide patterns in neon. Pop music is ephemeral—but data, in this case, is a pretty great record keeper.

🎡 Data visualization of the Month

EveryNoise is a genre map of epic proportions. Think of it as the musical subconscious of the internet, laid bare—every known genre, subgenre, and hybrid stitched together like a surrealist musical cartography. There’s “shimmer psych,” “Swedish idol pop,” and “deep happy hardcore.” If your ears are curious and your tabs are many, this is a good place to get wonderfully lost.

We like to think that if memories had melodies, some would sound like lullabies, others like voicemail recordings, and some—just maybe—like dance floor anthems.

So this May, listen back. To your teenage headphones. Your mother’s kitchen radio. The car stereo summer. The lull of a metro. The silence that follows. All of it is music. All of it, memory.

So, until next time- 

May your data stay groovy, your rhythms symphonic
From the low-frequency dreamers with a high-res harmonic xx