Aesthetics of sonification: Taking the subject-position

Paul Vickers; Bennett Hogg; David Worrall

Aesthetics of sonification: Taking the subject-position

Paul Vickers, Bennett Hogg, David Worrall

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Sonification is a family of representational techniques under the umbrella of the more general term ‘auditory display’ for revealing information in data and communicating it in a non-speech aural form – sonification makes the inaudible audible. Sonification is not bound to any particular types of data and has been applied across a diverse range of domains. In all cases the purpose of sonification is to let people gain information about the phenomenon under investigation by listening to the data. Fundamentally, sonification is concerned with causation: the sounds we hear are caused by changes in data values sampled from some underlying phenomenon or domain of enquiry.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations
Editors	Clemens Wöllner
Place of Publication	Oxford, UK
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Pages	89-109
Number of pages	352
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315569628
ISBN (Print)	9781472485403
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2017

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Name	SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
Publisher	Routledge

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Vickers, P., Hogg, B., & Worrall, D. (2017). Aesthetics of sonification: Taking the subject-position. In C. Wöllner (Ed.), Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations (pp. 89-109). (SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music). Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Body-Sound-and-Space-in-Music-and-Beyond-Multimodal-Explorations/Wollner/p/book/9781472485403

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Vickers, P, Hogg, B & Worrall, D 2017, Aesthetics of sonification: Taking the subject-position. in C Wöllner (ed.), Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations. SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music, Taylor & Francis, Oxford, UK, pp. 89-109. <https://www.routledge.com/Body-Sound-and-Space-in-Music-and-Beyond-Multimodal-Explorations/Wollner/p/book/9781472485403>

Aesthetics of sonification: Taking the subject-position. / Vickers, Paul; Hogg, Bennett; Worrall, David.
Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations. ed. / Clemens Wöllner. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2017. p. 89-109 (SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music).

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