Wow! Thank you so much for your detailed and speedy response. Greatly appreciated! I stupidly forgot to mention this has to run on a raspberry pi. I want to be able to walk around the city and have the changing carriers and signal strengths play different tones. Does this nullify the information you gave me If so, I'm very sorry. In any case, I will look into what you sent me.

Can puredata interpret wifi signal strength and convert it to midi?? Need this for a uni project. If not easy, would love help getting signal from analog sensors into pd. I am a total pd noob, so please assume I don't know what you're talking about. TIA