[Sigia-l] Organising content by sound

[kalbach at scils.rutgers.edu]

Hello,

Elsewhere researchers have been investigating the auralization of
programming code to help identify bugs:

<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2757>

This work seems to better leverage other facets of musical
expression. In addition to pitch and volume, these researchers
mapped rhythm, harmony (chords), articulation, and even tonality
(major or minor key) to specific "events" in a compiled code. I'd
bet with a little training even non-musicians could pick up on the
sonic elements of the "songs" that were played backed.

As a musician I find the notion of "sonification design"
fascinating. If info viz asks "what does information look like",
does sonification ask "what does information sound like"?

Cheers,
Jim