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Leif Karlstrom, Volcano Listening Project
11/24/2025We are excited to announce a string of shows in Oregon in January 2026! The Volcano Listening Project show will combine volcanology lecture with musicial performance by a band including Todd SIckafoose, Idit Shner, Jonny Rodgers, and Leif Karlstorm. Advance tickets below!
Eugene OR Jan 25, 2026
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Portland OR Jan 28, 2026
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Hood River OR Jan 29
9/20/2025
Our interview with Leah Roseman, on her Conversations with Musicians podcast, is up! There is a video version and an audio-only version of the interview. Great conversation!4/16/2025
The 1st annual Sonification Awards, associated with the Data Sonification Archive, announced winners today. Two of our Kilauea sonifications, to the 'analysis' and 'communication' categories, made the list! The list of submissions is impressive and we are honored to be included.8/10/2024
The Volcano Listening Project album is out on all streaming platorms (iTunes, Spotify, etc). Here is the Bandcamp page, our preferred platform for supporting streaming music. Thanks to Adhyâropa records for putting this out, we're extremely excited to share this project with the world. More details will be posted soon in the Volcano Music section of this site (liner notes and details of the datasets/sonification approaches).7/15/2024
The Volcano Listening Project album is done! We're so excited to share this collection of musical interpretations of volcanic data (with data sonifications as well as live performances) from around the world. The album will be released by Adhyâropa records, and you can pre-order it today on Bandcamp (the first single is out there and all other streaming platforms). We are making vinyl of this record, which will be available from Adhyâropa in September 2024.1/14/2024
We did an interview with the Conneticut Public Radio show Audacious with Chion Wolf, available in podcast form HERE. Fun interview and the other guests are well worth checking out as well!
11/11/2023
We were featured in a segment of the CNN International show Tech for Good, season 4, episode 3, which came out today. Check it out on youtube HERE. Featuring new music composed based on the 2021 Fragradaslfjall eruption in Iceland.
6/9/2023
Our article in EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union is out today! Big collaborative effort that showcases a lot of the sonification and visualization tools we've been developing, and applied to data at Kilauea volcano. Read it HERE, and check out the blog post for details and more movies!4/12/2023
Sense of Place Lecture Series performance, a free improvisation to sonified seismicity leading up to an eruption during 2004 phase of activity at Mt. St. Helens. WATCH ON VIMEO.1/13/2023
Hawaii Public Radio interview. Short clip and longer extended version, focus on the musical side of the volcano listening project, and the track Hotel Kilauea.1/10/2022
Long-form interview on new volcano-centered pdocast Volcaknowledge now up! Watch on YouTube, and check out the other episodes - they are great!4/11/2021
Leif Karlstrom will be featured on the Sunday Sessions show of violinist Gaelynn Lee. Starts at 12 pm PST, live on YouTube (show will be archived).4/9/2021New page/post on our sonification and animation of Lone Star Geyser data (two different experiments in 2010 and 2014). This post highlights a new datamovie.
Please see our article in the Computer Music Journal for more details.
10/15/2020
We've been spotlighted by the National Science Foundation for Earth Science Week! Check out our cameo in the YouTube series "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didnt Hear About"
10/3/2020
New page/post
on volcanic "Screams" from Mt. Redoubt, Alaska. Including some videos of direct sonification of seismic data and listening guide.11/22/2019
We're on NPR All Things Considered!
Check out this "Audio Postcard" from member station KLCC in Eugene OR.11/12/2019
Check out a great University of Oregon web article feature and TV interview from Portland OR that came out in the last couple weeks!
10/21/2019
Hello world! We are live!
Check out our first multimedia collaboration Hotel Kilauea.