sonification

English

Etymology

sonify +‎ -ification

Noun

sonification (countable and uncountable, plural sonifications)

1. The process of sonifying.
   • 2008, Fabio Paternò, Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Human-Computer Interaction Symposium, →ISBN:

     In another project, Weather sonification (Flowers and al., 2001), the correlation is made between different types of data, such as air pressure and temperature, with musical instruments.

   • 2013, Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson, Electronic Music, →ISBN, page 173:

     Sonification is a subset of a larger field called Auditory Display, which examines how sound can be used as the main conduit for conveying, understanding, and relaying information.

   • 2013, Siu-Lan Tan, Annabel J. Cohen, Scott D. Lipscomb, The Psychology of Music in Multimedia, →ISBN, page 350:

     Over the past 20 years, there have been many explorations and examples of sonifications.

   • 2014, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Julien Castet, Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing, →ISBN, page 228:

     As such, the mappings for direct data sonification should be straightforward in order to provide an intuitive correlation between brain activity and sound.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

sonification m (plural sonifications)

1. sonification