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The ionization energies of the elements as represented here in a periodic table.

And we are going to produce tones representing those energies.

The way that this app works is each one of these elements in the table is actually a push button, and I can play tones with these push buttons.

The settings in this control panel here will determine how those energies will be converted into tones that we can hear.

First of all, we're just going to look at a few of the controls for now.

See, we have transposed frequency.

The frequencies corresponding to these ionization energies are extremely high, so we have to transpose them down to arrange them.

So here we're going to transpose it down, in this case, 42 octaves, negative 42.

So let's start with hydrogen.

If I transpose it 43 octaves down, I get that tone.

Or I can go 44 octaves down.

I can also transpose it chromatically.

As you can see here, I can go up, and up again, and up again.

But normally I set that at zero and just leave it there, and I only change the octave.

Let's go back to 42, and I'm gonna show you some of the other controls that we have here.

The duration is in seconds, so here we go, one second long.

Or we could go longer, let's say two seconds.

And the damping factor controls how quickly the tone decays.

Boron.

Carbon.