Sonification

Sonification is the mapping of data to sound for purposes of extracting information from the data.

Sonification is not music.

But music is a sonification. (A sonification of what?)

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Scaletti and Alan Craig created a video at NCSA in 1991 to demonstrate some of the ways in which data-driven sound can enhance and extend data-driven visualizations: Using Sound to Extract meaning from Complex Data

They presented a paper describing the development and testing of these tools for data sonification at an SPIE conference:

“Using Sound to Extract Meaning from Complex Data,” Extracting Meaning From Complex Data: Processing, Display, Interaction II Volume 1459, Edward J. Farell Chair/Editor, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Jose, February 1991.

In 1992 Scaletti was invited to make a presentation at the first International Conference on Auditory Display at the Santa Fe Institute: “Sound Synthesis Methods for Auditory Data Representation,” Auditory Display: Sonification, audification, and auditory interfaces, Gregory Kramer, ed., Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity, 1994.

In 1993 she taught a course called An Introduction to Data Sonification with Brian Evans and Robin Bargar at SIGGRAPH