As a sound artist who specialized in actual field recordings, and took their honest representation and provenance seriously, it is a recurring gripe of mine wh

As a sound artist who specialized in actual field recordings, and took their honest representation and provenance seriously, it is a recurring gripe of mine when media relations and pop sci writers assert that this sort of thing is the "the sound of." It is not remotely that. It is sonification, which is a fine and noble art in its own right, but it represents an often very arbitrary transformation of one set of signals, into some audio form consumable by humans. FTA for example: "The team used data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, as well as other sources, and used these magnetic signals to manipulate and control a sonic representation of the core field." Some correlation is there, no doubt—but it would be very helpful for people to be educated about what sonification is, and, what they are hearing in this particular effort, e.g. given a sense of scale and timescale and medium transformation...