English

Noun

sonification ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sonifications)

1. The process of sonifying.
   • 2008, Fabio Paternò & ‎Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Human-Computer Interaction Symposium, ISBN 0387096787:

     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 1107244544, 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 0199608156, 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 1447165845, 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.