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Grants Radio

Thirty-five years of published grantmaking, played. One grant, one note. A year takes a minute; April is a wall of sound.

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Pitch follows log amount: a £250 village hall grant is a high chime; an eight-figure government award is a low floor-shaking event.
Pan follows longitude, so money moves in the stereo field from west to east. About 77% of notes have a location; the rest sit in the centre.
Timbre is funder type: government is strings, lottery is bells, trusts and foundations are woodwind.
Time is compressed so one calendar year lasts sixty seconds. April arrives every minute as a dense wall; 2020 sounds unlike 2019.
Rebuild: npm run render:radio. Optional album excerpt: npm run render:radio -- --wav --years 2019-2020.

Data as of 5 August 2026.