Sonification: thoughts?

[Duckett]

This has long been a fascinating topic for me, and I'm curious to know what the rest of AO thinks.
while data sonification has obvious research utility, the artistic side is not widely explored.
Have a look at this, and tell me you wouldn't curious to hear what it might sound like ;)

[Trinxat]

Hi Duckett, I don't know for shure because I'm using an iPad but it seems that the link is broken.

[seismic1]

I think it should be:-

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/sandstroke/appletm/index.html

[Duckett]

Yep, that's it- thanks seismic1!

[windspace]

I agree...I'd like to hear them. In fact I played around with using a couple of these images as fodder for the 3D image to wave transformation in PPG WaveGenerator today.

[S1gnsOfL1fe]

As far as I can remember, Alchemy can do stuff like this...when I first bought it and I saw in the manual you could literally "paste" images into the additive editor I nearly freaked out...'images, as SOUND!' I thought. The results? Eh, not so much but I'm still totally intrigued by it. I'm much more of a fan of innovative ways of sequencing sound these days...and ways of reproducing it but still...

How avant garde would we be if we were a bunch of sound creationists driven by taking cgi and converting into actual compositions?! Next level right there!!!

[seismic1]

I just hit this whilst listening to an abstractcats track via a KVR thread

http://www.skytopia.com/software/sonicphoto/

[MetaDronos]

Image sonification is a VERY powerful tools of synthesis and resynthesis. You can actually SEE how sound is constructed and how it changes in time. You can see its elements in frequency domain, move those elements, erase them, blur and so on. You can DRAW or PAINT sounds using your mouse (or tablet).
You can copy elements of one sound and paste them into area of another sound. Possibilities are endless. And for sure working with sound on visual level changes the way you think about sound and music - brain areas responsible for visual processing become engaged in "thinking about audio" ;)

I use sonifications tools: SonicPhoto, PhotoSounder, Coagula, AudioPaint - and using them I can design complex sound structures visually,
much faster than moving dozens of knobs in complicated synthesizers.

See for example this interesting Warren Burt's use of CoagulaLight (this is ready to use HOWTO) or example of music of Ian Shaw created in PhotoSounder.

[MetaDronos]

Pure sonifications - no samples or isntruments.

http://soundcloud.com/metadronos/tousestochiklu

[CrystalWizard]

i'm fascinated by sonification in general ie., using data to generate sound. ( http://sonification.de/son/definition ) in addition to those programs- metasynth, softstep, now artwonk



nice work MetaDronos

[MetaDronos]

i'm fascinated by sonification in general ie., using data to generate sound. ( http://sonification.de/son/definition ) in addition to those programs- metasynth, softstep, now artwonk

nice work MetaDronos

Thank you.
I plan to release more tracks based only on sonifications.