Sonification
The blog posts of this section relate to the Sonification module in the course MCT4001 Introduction to Music, Communication and Technology (from 2022) and to the discontinued course MCT4046 Sonification and Sound Design (2019 to 2021). The aim of the course is to develop knowledge of and practical experience with sonification, including sound design, interface implementation and perceptual analysis. The interface design process extends from requirements in the problem domain to evaluation of the auditory display.
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Growing Monoliths Discovered On Mars
Mars is a hot topic these days, and weather seems to always be a hot topic too. So how about making a project with both? We ended up gamifying the weather on Mars by discovering the musical potential it may have.
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Valkyrie: Aurora Sonified
The sound of Aurora sonified in a synth
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Pixel by pixel
The pixel sequencer is an interactive web app for sonification of images. Get online, upload your favorite picture, sit back and listen to it.
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Soniweb: Epilogue
An update to the Soniweb project featuring dynamic sonification!
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Soniweb: An Experiment in Web Traffic Sonification and Ambisonics
For the course MCT4046 Sonification and Sound Design, our group was tasked to create a system that collects and sonifies data in real time. For this project, we went even further(!) and spatialized the network data that passes through a computer.
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Weather Music
Experiencing weather is a multi-sensory and complex experience. The objective of our sonification project was to sonify the weather through the use of online video streams.
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Sonifying The Coronavirus Pandemic
Finding a voice for difficult data
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Sonification of Near Earth Objects
As a part of a two-week workshop in the Sonification and Sound design course, we worked on the development of a self-chosen sonification project. For three days we explored how to design and build an auditory model of Near-Earth Objects (NEO) with data collected from NASA.
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Blue sky visions on sonic futures
Pedro Duarte Pestana was the final guest speaker who joined us virtually with his presentation 'Career Management in Music Technology / Knowledge Engineering in Music Technology and Sonic Arts' from Porto. Pedro was the first student in Portugal who held a PhD in computer music. He works as a researcher and consulter for emerging audio technologies and intelligent systems.
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A generic overview to the 'Sound in Space' exhibition at KIT
Marking the final event before Easter and from our Sonification and Sound design course I was tasked to visit the group exhibition 'Sound in Space' that took place on the 11th of April at Gallery KIT, Trondheim. It was also the closing event for the sound art course in which music-technology and fine art academy students (NTNU) could participate.
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Brexisonification
The goal in the project is to sonify Brexit, in a way that the audience could interpret new insight from the data through audio.
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The Sound of Traffic - Sonic Vehicle Pathelormeter
Is it possible to transmit complex data-sets within an instance of a sound, so the content gets revealed? As communication and dissemination of information in our modern digital world has been highly dominated by visual aspects it led to the fact that the modality of sound got neglected. In order to test the hypothesis, the project presents a model for sonification of temporal-spatial traffic data, based on principle of Parametric Mapping Sonification (PMSon) technique.
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MuX -playground for real-time sound exploration
It was so fascinating to have Edo Fouilloux in the MCT sonification seminar series. Edo is a visual innovator and a multidisciplinary craftsman of graphics, sound, computing, and interaction. He co-founded Decochon in 2015 to work with Mixed Reality (XR) technologies. MuX is a pioneering software in the field of interactive music in virtual reality systems. Edo demonstrated the concepts and philosophies inside Mux, where it is possible to build and play new instruments in the virtual space.
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Ole Neiling Lecture
I had the pleasure of introducing Ole Neiling, a extradisciplinary 'life-style' artist. This was part of a series of lectures held over the portal in the sonification and sound design module.
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Presentation by Pamela Z
As part of our Sonification and Sound Design course (MCT4046), we were fortunate enough to host scholars and artists which are well established within the sonification and sound design field. Pamela Z is a composer, performer and a media artist who is known for her work of voice with electronic processing. Pamela arrived in Norway for several workshops and performances, and we were lucky enough to have her for a short presentation on April 4th. After a brief introduction by Tone Åse who has been a long-time fan of Pamela’s work, Pamela started the session with a 10 minutes performance of a live improvised mashup of several existing pieces she often performs. While performing, Pamela is being circled by several self-made sensory devices that are connected to her laptop. On her hands, she wears sensors that send signals to her hardware setup. She sings and makes sounds with her voice, hands, and body and manipulates all that with hand gestures.
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An Overview of Sonification by Thomas Hermann
It was my privilege and honour to facilitate a guest lecture and introduce one of the 'Gurus' in the field of sonification, Dr. Thomas Hermann. He shared his enormous knowledge on sonification with hands on exercises for two days (March 28, and 29, 2019) through the MCT portal in Trondheim. I am quite excited to share my notes and will try to cover the summary of his talks in this blog.
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Using Speech As Musical Material
As a part of a three-week workshop in the course Sonification and Sound design at MCT, we were lucky to have Daniel Formo as a guest speaker.
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Advanced collaborative spaces, tele-immersive systems and the Nidarøs Sculpture
Leif Arne Rønningen introduced us to 'Advanced Collaboration Spaces, requirements and possible realisations' and to the 'Nidarø Sulpture', a dynamic vision and audio sculpture. In both parts Leif's main research areas on tele-immersive collaboration systems and low latency networks are at the forfront.
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Composition and mapping in sound installations “Flyndre” and “VLBI Music”
Øyvind Brandtsegg talks about the creation and life cycle of two art installations in this inspiring talk. Follow the link to read about the first lecture in a series about sonification.
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The Sounds We Like
For our first lesson in the Sonification and Sound Design course, we were asked to give a short presentation of a sonification or a sound design of choice. It was interesting to see the variety of examples among our classmates. Each of us brought a unique example and explained what is it about? why did they choose it? and how does it relate to our work at the MCT program?