How we built Earth Jukebox
Matviy and Nikita chose what each sound should represent and how listeners move around the maps.
AI assistants (OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude) helped with the source code, preparation of the flash data, styling, tests, written material and demo assembly. They also helped add the carbon dioxide, forest height, atmospheric river and air quality tracks, the text map summary, the WAV export, the songs, the jukebox, the Ukrainian interface and the measured sea temperature track.
The player synthesizes sound from NASA image pixels and NOAA flash timestamps using the team's mapping rules.