Mark Ballora - Composer - Sonification Champion

Mark came to my attention as an individual doing some of the most innovative work in the new field. I reached out in winter of 2017 to speak to Mark about his work in sonification that I had been tracking for years He was one of the most innovative and fully realized practitionaers of thsi new field of study. In July of 2019 the newly appointed director of the Arts + Design Research Incubator at Penn State, Mark unexpectedly died Thursday, July 18, 2019. He was 57 years old. He is sorely missed by his students, his collegues and all of us working in this new field. An example of the attention his work with the presentation: Meet the scientist who turns data into music—and listen to the sound of a neutron star