Orchestration Within the Sonification of Basic Data Sets

The use of sonification as a means of representing and analysing data has become a growing field of research in recent years and as such has become a far more accepted means of working with data. Existing work carried out as part of this research has focused primarily on the sonification of DNA/RNA sequences and their subsequent protein structures for the purposes of analysis. This sonification work raised many questions as regards the need for sequences to be set to music in a standard manner so that different strands could be analysed by comparison, and hence the orchestration and instrumentation used became of great importance. The basic principles of sonification can be rapidly extended to include many different data elements within a single rendering, and thus the importance of orchestration grows accordingly. Existing work on the use of rhythmic parsing within a sonification had suggested that far more information could be represented when orchestrated in a rhythmic manner than ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICAD
• Authors: Charlie Cullen, Eugene Coyle
• Keywords: Effective Sonification, Emerging Technology, ICAD 2004, Sonification, Sonification Work