Vickers, Paul (2005) Ars Informatica -- Ars Electronica: Improving Sonification Aesthetics. In: Understanding and Designing for Aesthetic Experience (workshop at HCI 2005: The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference), 5-9 September 2005, Edinburgh.
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Abstract
In this paper we discuss æsthetic issues of sonifications. We posit that many sonifications have suffered from poor acoustic ecology which makes listening more difficult, thereby resulting in poorer data extraction and inference on the part of the listener. Lessons are drawn from the electro acoustic music community as we argue that it is not instructive to distinguish between sonifications and music/sound art. Edgar Var`ese defined music as organised sound and sonifications organise sound to reflect some aspect of the thing being sonified. Therefore, we propose
that sonification designers can improve the communicative ability of their auditory displays by paying attention to the æsthetic issues that are well known to composers, orchestrators, sound designers & artists, and recording engineers.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | G400 Computer Science |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Paul Vickers |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2013 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2023 14:05 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11296 |
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