Each day is marked out with a note to keep the beat, then the deaths come, sometimes in clusters of notes, other times in rising and falling scales. This is the sound of the pandemic in Switzerland, as imagined by Swiss journalist Simon Huwiler. His composition is punched into a long roll of paper - each hole converted into a note as it is fed through an old-fashioned music box, the type with a wind-up mechanism. The combination of music box and paper, Huwiler told AFP, was perfect "because you see what you are going to hear". He had bought the music box in China and describes it as an innocent instrument used "to play little melodies to get kids to sleep". "When you combine this innocent instrument and the heavy data from suffering, you get this clash of emotions," he said. Huwiler, a data journalist for Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, says he wanted to make a visualisation that could move people and "show in an emotional way that people are dying". 'Crowns and tears' In the video he posted on Twitter and YouTube on Tuesday, the viewer sees the music box in close up, its handle turning constantly while the paper feeds through. At first, the monotonous beat simply marks the...