Klima|Anlage—Performing Climate Data

Groß-Vogt, Katharina; Hermann, Thomas; Jury, Martin W.; Steiner, Andrea; Kartadinata, Sukandar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98294-6_21

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“…This is the case for projects that present data related to climate change, such as Klima|Anlage—Performing climate data [GHJ*19], one of the cases identified as artistic in our literature search. In this work, climate data and model predictions between 1950 and 2100 can be chosen by the listener for twelve selected regions of the world and interactively sonified and visualized in an immersive installation environment with the goal of contributing to “the urgent need to inform the general public about climate change”.…”

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confidence: 99%

Open Your Ears and Take a Look: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Integration of Sonification and Visualization

Enge,

Elmquist,

Caiola

et al. 2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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The research communities studying visualization and sonification for data display and analysis share exceptionally similar goals, essentially making data of any kind interpretable to humans. One community does so by using visual representations of data, and the other community employs auditory (non‐speech) representations of data. While the two communities have a lot in common, they developed mostly in parallel over the course of the last few decades. With this STAR, we discuss a collection of work that bridges the borders of the two communities, hence a collection of work that aims to integrate the two techniques into one form of audiovisual display, which we argue to be “more than the sum of the two.” We introduce and motivate a classification system applicable to such audiovisual displays and categorize a corpus of 57 academic publications that appeared between 2011 and 2023 in categories such as reading level, dataset type, or evaluation system, to mention a few. The corpus also enables a meta‐analysis of the field, including regularly occurring design patterns such as type of visualization and sonification techniques, or the use of visual and auditory channels, showing an overall diverse field with different designs. An analysis of a co‐author network of the field shows individual teams without many interconnections. The body of work covered in this STAR also relates to three adjacent topics: audiovisual monitoring, accessibility, and audiovisual data art. These three topics are discussed individually in addition to the systematically conducted part of this research. The findings of this report may be used by researchers from both fields to understand the potentials and challenges of such integrated designs while hopefully inspiring them to collaborate with experts from the respective other field.

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confidence: 99%

Open Your Ears and Take a Look: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Integration of Sonification and Visualization

Enge,

Elmquist,

Caiola

et al. 2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…Participants interact with the Klima|Anlage installation by choosing climate data between 1950 and 2100 from twelve regions in the world identified in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This way, the installation provides an opportunity for the public to interact with climate data and gain a direct and affective understanding of climate change [22].…”

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Unnatural Nature: Spatial Sonification of Climate Change Data

Zelada,

Çamcı

2023

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2023)

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In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a sound installation that is based on the spatial sonification of climate change data on global temperature, CO2 concentration, Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet mass, and sea level variation. Titled “Unnatural Nature,” the installation aims to evoke in the listeners an emotional connection with the data and an increased awareness of climate change. The sound engine underlying the sonification implements a range of sounds that model a natural soundscape as well as those that are more abstract. The sonification also leverages audio spatialization using a higher-order Ambisonic system to create an immersive experience that envelopes the listener in the modeled soundscape. We discuss the technical implementation of the sonification and some of the aesthetic decisions that were incorporated into the installation. We then present the results of a user study that aimed to understand participants’ interpretation of and engagement with the sonification, and its effectiveness in conveying the trends in climate data.

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“…This relationship meets a domain where ars informatica and ars musica merge together [11], and the goals of sonifications and musical pieces are blended. Klima-Anlage is "a walk-in sound installation" [12] that uses climate data from 1950, and a "global climate modeling experiment" that predicts climate variables evolution until 2100. It is an interactive installation, where the user can listen to the data from twelve regions, which includes precipitation data, wind data, radiation data and air temperature data, and also global greenhouse gas concentrations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is an interactive installation, where the user can listen to the data from twelve regions, which includes precipitation data, wind data, radiation data and air temperature data, and also global greenhouse gas concentrations. Sound and video examples of several regions can be found in [13]. Another example is McGee and Roger's Musification of Seismic Data, who used straight audification processes to create musical compositions with a variety of timbres, through the "resampling, filtering, gran-ulation, timestretching, and pitch shifting" [14] of seismic vibrations, which resulted in compositions of the February 21st, 2011 Christchurch earthquake and of the 12th January, 2010 magnitude 7.0 Haiti earthquake [15].…”

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A Sonification Experience to Portray the Sounds of Portuguese Consumption Habits

Seiça

Martins

Roque

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019)

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The stimuli for consumption is present in everyday life, where major retail companies play a role in providing a large range of products every single day. Using soniﬁcation techniques, we present a listening experiment of Portuguese consumption habits in the course of ten days, gathered from a Portuguese retail company. We focused on how to represent this time-series data as a musical piece that would engage the listener’s attention and promote an active listening attitude, exploring the inﬂuence of aesthetics in the perception of auditory displays. Through a phenomenological approach, ten participants were interviewed to gather perceptions evoked by the piece, and how the consumption variations were un-derstood. The tested composition revealed relevant associations about the data, with the consumption context indirectly present throughout the emerging themes: from the idea of everyday life, routine and consumption peaks to aesthetic aspects as the passage of time, frenzy and consumerism. Documentary, movie imagery and soundtrack were also perceived. Several musical aspects were also mentioned, as the constant, steady rhythm and the repetitive nature of the composition, and sensations such as pleasantness, sat-isfaction, annoyance, boredom and anxiety. These collected topics convey the incessant feeling and consumption needs which portray our present society, offering new paths for comprehending musical sound perception and consequent exploration.

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Klima|Anlage—Performing Climate Data

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Open Your Ears and Take a Look: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Integration of Sonification and Visualization

Open Your Ears and Take a Look: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Integration of Sonification and Visualization

Unnatural Nature: Spatial Sonification of Climate Change Data

A Sonification Experience to Portray the Sounds of Portuguese Consumption Habits

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