AlgorhythmicSorting is an open source program and learning tool for people, who want to learn and analyze the diversity of sorting algorithms by hearing the different rhythmic behaviour of different sorting algorithms like bubble sort, merge sort, quick sort or heap sort and others. It shall be used by students, sound artists, researchers and hobbyists to learn the rhythmic basics of algorithms. More documentation is to follow.

AlgorhythmicSorting is free to download. Until now it is only available for Mac OS X, but we are working on releases for other platforms. We are also interested in feedback, collaborations and contributons to the projects’s development. Please visit our sourceforge site for that at https://sourceforge.net/projects/algorhythmics/. You will find the source code and other important files and documentations.

AlgorhythmicSorting is an open project initiated by Shintaro Miyazaki and Michael Chinen (Members of Institute for Algorhythmics), which investigates the algorhythmic (algorithmic+rhythmic) and sonic structures in our contemporary life, culture and society. Sourceforge hosts its various projects on svn, including many data sonification and audification tool It is an open source software under GPLv3. Audio i/o thanks to portaudio.

How to use:
At the current state AlgorhythmicSorting is a very minimal and simple tool. As you push “new array” or the play (>) button AlgoRhythmicSorting will start sorting with the selected method (on default it is bubble sort). Calculation speed is changeable by the slider at the top. Durations from 0.001ms up to 1 s per operation are possible. The frequency range of the tones representing the values to sort is as well adjustable. If you delect the “note” option you will only hear the seperator sound and vice versa.