Understanding The Need For Micro-Gestural Inflections In Parameter-Mapping Sonification
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Worrall, David
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Most of the software tools used for data sonification have been
adopted or adapted from those designed to compose computer
music, which in turn, adopted them from abstractly notated
scores. Such adoptions are not value-free; by using them, the
cultural paradigms underlying the music for which the tools
were made have influenced the conceptualization and, it is
argued, the effectiveness of data sonifications.
Recent research in cognition supports studies in empirical
musicology that suggest that listening is not a passive ingestion
of organised sounds but is an embodied activity that invisibly
enacts gestures of what is heard. This paper outlines an
argument for why sonifiers using parametric-mapping
sonification should consider incorporating micro-gestural
inflections if they are to mitigate The Mapping Problem in
enhancing the intelligibility of sonified data.
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2013-07
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