Aesthetics of sonification

Vickers, Paul; Hogg, Bennett; Worrall, David

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“…In their article presenting the Aesthetic Perspective Space, Vickers and Hogg ( 2006 ) had populated the circumplex with two handfuls of examples: some were specific pieces, others were generic, such as a genre or a composer. In subsequent papers, Vickers ( 2016 ); see also Vickers et al ( 2017 ) included weblinks for most of the examples. It is not clear whether the positioning of these example works were empirical or hypothetical.…”

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“…Sonification may be ineffective if the rendered sound appears arbitrary to the listener in relation to the underlying data. The design task then becomes about finding a suitable fit between communicational efficacy and appropriate aesthetic character” (Vickers et al, 2017 , p. 2). When sonification emerged as a field of study around three decades ago (Kramer, 1994 ; Hermann et al, 2011 ), it was defined in terms of engineering and utilitarian purposes.…”

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“…This resulted in sonification, as a discipline or technique, came to be closely associated with information engineering. In reaction, other researchers argued that data sonification could benefit from knowledge about auditory perception gained in artistic fields, notably sound art and electroacoustic composition (Vickers and Hogg, 2006 ; Barrass and Vickers, 2011 ; Vickers et al, 2017 ). Research in aesthetic appreciation in the arts has a very long history.…”

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“…The attention to everyday experiences and environments is more recent (Berlyne, 1974 set the tone), as is the systematic study of aesthetic emotions (Schindler et al, 2017 ; Menninghaus et al, 2019 ), the measurement of qualia such beauty, awe, and interestingness (Silvia, 2005 ; Ramakrishnan and Greenwood, 2009 ), and in particular, aesthetics within a framework of music emotions (Juslin, 2019 ). As a tool to chart the perceptual relationships between sonification and other sonic design techniques, Vickers and Hogg ( 2006 ) proposed the Aesthetic Perspective Space (APS; see also Vickers et al, 2017 ). It is a theoretical construct, a two-dimensional circumplex model, aimed at bridging auditory display and electroacoustic music.…”

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Climate data sonification and visualization: An analysis of topics, aesthetics, and characteristics in 32 recent projects

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IntroductionIt has proven a hard challenge to stimulate climate action with climate data. While scientists communicate through words, numbers, and diagrams, artists use movement, images, and sound. Sonification, the translation of data into sound, and visualization, offer techniques for representing climate data with often innovative and exciting results. The concept of sonification was initially defined in terms of engineering, and while this view remains dominant, researchers increasingly make use of knowledge from electroacoustic music (EAM) to make sonifications more convincing.MethodsThe Aesthetic Perspective Space (APS) is a two-dimensional model that bridges utilitarian-oriented sonification and music. We started with a review of 395 sonification projects, from which a corpus of 32 that target climate change was chosen; a subset of 18 also integrate visualization of the data. To clarify relationships with climate data sources, we determined topics and subtopics in a hierarchical classification. Media duration and lexical diversity in descriptions were determined. We developed a protocol to span the APS dimensions, Intentionality and Indexicality, and evaluated its circumplexity.ResultsWe constructed 25 scales to cover a range of qualitative characteristics applicable to sonification and sonification-visualization projects, and through exploratory factor analysis, identified five essential aspects of the project descriptions, labeled Action, Technical, Context, Perspective, and Visualization. Through linear regression modeling, we investigated the prediction of aesthetic perspective from essential aspects, media duration, and lexical diversity. Significant regressions across the corpus were identified for Perspective (ß = 0.41***) and lexical diversity (ß = −0.23*) on Intentionality, and for Perspective (ß = 0.36***) and Duration (logarithmic; ß = −0.25*) on Indexicality.DiscussionWe discuss how these relationships play out in specific projects, also within the corpus subset that integrated data visualization, as well as broader implications of aesthetics on design techniques for multimodal representations aimed at conveying scientific data. Our approach is informed by the ongoing discussion in sound design and auditory perception research communities on the relationship between sonification and EAM. Through its analysis of topics, qualitative characteristics, and aesthetics across a range of projects, our study contributes to the development of empirically founded design techniques, applicable to climate science communication and other fields.

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“…However, my most visceral data experiences came from reading the stories told in the project's essays—not the data visualizations themselves. I think growing research in the aesthetics of data sonification (data represented as digital sound [Vickers, Hogg, and Worrall 2017]) or even data haptification (data represented as digital touch [Hayes and Rajko 2017]) could augment the data visualizations and enrich visceral, felt experiences of the project's complex datasets.…”

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DUNHAM'S DATA: KATHERINE DUNHAM AND DIGITAL METHODS FOR DANCE HISTORICAL INQUIRY by Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor, and Takiyah Nur Amin https://www.dunhamsdata.org/

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Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing

2021

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Against the backdrop of an aging world population increasingly affected by a diverse range of abilities and disabilities as well as the rise of ubiquitous computing and digital app cultures, this paper questions how mobile technologies mediate between heterogeneous environments and sensing beings. To approach the current technological manufacturing of the senses, two lines of thought are of importance: First, there is a need to critically reflect upon the concept of assistive technologies (AT) as artifacts providing tangible solutions for a specific disability. Second, the conventional distinction between user and environment requires a differentiated consideration. This contribution will first review James Gibson’s concept of “affordances” and modify this approach by introducing theories and methods of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Then, we present two case studies where we explore the relations between recent “assistive” app technologies and human sensory perception. As hearing and seeing are key in this regard, we concentrate on two specific media technologies: ReSound LINX2, a hearing aid which allows for direct connect (via Bluetooth) with iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and Camassia, an IOS app for sonic wayfinding for blind people. We emphasize the significance of dis-/abling practices for manufacturing novel forms of hearing and seeing and drawing on sources like promotional materials by manufacturers, ads, or user testimonials and reviews. Our analysis is interested in the reciprocal relationships between users and their socio-technical and media environments. By and large, this contribution will provide crucial insights into the contemporary entanglement of algorithm-driven technologies, daily practices, and sensing subjects: the production of techno-sensory arrangements.

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Aesthetics of sonification

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Climate data sonification and visualization: An analysis of topics, aesthetics, and characteristics in 32 recent projects

Climate data sonification and visualization: An analysis of topics, aesthetics, and characteristics in 32 recent projects

DUNHAM'S DATA: KATHERINE DUNHAM AND DIGITAL METHODS FOR DANCE HISTORICAL INQUIRY by Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor, and Takiyah Nur Amin https://www.dunhamsdata.org/

Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing

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