Fish-Hacking

I am currently exploring the sonification of weakly electric fish, such as the Black Ghost Knifefish, partially cos it's fun (see ENKI, by Tony Hall). but there is examples of using the frequency analysis to monitor water quality

Basic Setup

Nice travelling edition for the HLab14 Tourdigrade

Fish 2 pd Interface

First Sonification experiment

Please note that the clicks are not communication, but wiggles in the wiring... see chrips in the pic above, detected with pd.

Merchandise

I am planning to make some nice crafted device for selling it in some local aquarium stores in yogyakarta. and of course a t-shirt

Literature on Biomonitoring using weakly electric fish

• M. Thomas et al, Water Research Volume 30, Issue 12, December 1996

Real-time biomonitoring of water contamination by cyanide based on analysis of the continuous electric signal emitted by a tropical fish: Apteronotus albifrons [1]

• J. Clausen et al, Environmental Technology, Volume 33, Issue 10, 2012

Weakly electric fish for biomonitoring water quality [2]