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Data sonification is the presentation of data as sound using
sonification . It is the auditory equivalent of the more established practice of
data visualization .
The usual process for data sonification is directing digital media of a dataset through a
software synthesizer and into a
digital-to-analog converter to produce sound for humans to experience.
[1]
Applications of data sonification include astronomy studies of star creation,
[2] interpreting
cluster analysis ,
[3] and geoscience.
[4]
Various projects describe the production of sonifications as a collaboration between scientists and musicians.
[5]
A target demographic for using data sonification is the blind community because of the inaccessibility of data visualizations.
[6]
References
^ Kaper, H.G.; Wiebel, E.; Tipei, S. (1999). "Data sonification and sound visualization". Computing in Science & Engineering . 1 (4): 48–58.
arXiv :
cs/0007007 .
Bibcode :
1999CSE.....1d..48K .
doi :
10.1109/5992.774840 .
S2CID
8087002 .
^ Guglielmi, Giorgia (21 July 2017).
"Meet the scientist who turns data into music—and listen to the sound of a neutron star" . Science .
^ Hermann, T; Ritter, H (1999). "Listen to your Data: Model-Based Sonification for Data Analysis". Advances in intelligent computation and multimedia systems . International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
ISBN
0-921836-80-5 .
^ Romans, Brian (11 April 2007).
"Data Sonification" . Wired .
^ Beans, Carolyn (1 May 2017).
"Science and Culture: Musicians join scientists to explore data through sound" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 114 (18): 4563–4565.
Bibcode :
2017PNAS..114.4563B .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1705325114 .
PMC
5422826 .
PMID
28461386 .
^ Zhao, Haixia; Plaisant, Catherine; Shneiderman, Ben; Lazar, Jonathan (1 May 2008). "Data Sonification for Users with Visual Impairment". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction . 15 (1): 1–28.
doi :
10.1145/1352782.1352786 .
S2CID
17199537 .
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