Search results for "Sonification"
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The Sound of Swarm. Auditory Description of Swarm Robotic Movements
2023
Movements of robots in a swarm can be mapped to sounds, highlighting the group behavior through the coordinated and simultaneous variations of musical parameters across time. The vice versa is also possible: sound parameters can be mapped to robotic motion parameters, giving instructions through sound. In this article, we first develop a theoretical framework to relate musical parameters such as pitch, timbre, loudness, and articulation (for each time) with robotic parameters such as position, identity, motor status, and sensor status. We propose a definition of musical spaces as Hilbert spaces, and musical paths between parameters as elements of bigroupoids, generalizing existing conceptio…
AcouMotion – An Interactive Sonification System for Acoustic Motion Control
2006
This paper introduces AcouMotion as a new hard-/software system for combining human body motion, tangible interfaces and sonification to a closed-loop human computer interface that allows non-visual motor control by using sonification (non-speech auditory displays) as major feedback channel. AcouMotion's main components are (i) a sensor device for measuring motion parameters (ii) a computer simulation to represent the dynamical evolution of a model world, and (iii) a sonification engine which generates an auditory representation of objects and any interactions in the model world. The intended applications of AcouMotion range from new kinds of sport games that can be played without visual di…
Musification of Accelerometry Data Towards Raising Awareness of Physical Activity
2022
Previous research has shown that the temporal dynamics of human activity recorded by accelerometers share a similar structure with music. This opens the possibility to use musical sonification of accelerometry data to raise awareness of daily physical activity. In this study a method was developed for quantifying the daily structure of human activity using multigranular temporal segmentation, and applying it to produce musical sonifications. Two accelerometry recordings of physical activity were selected from a dataset, such that one shows more physical activity than the other. These data were segmented in different time-scales so that segmentation boundaries at a given time-scale have a co…
Networks of Music and Images
2017
Il potere di astrazione della teoria delle categorie può essere utilizzato per descrivere procedure e strutture musicali. La stessa teoria matematica può essere applicata alle forme visuali e alle loro trasformazioni, comprese le applicazioni computazionali. Poiché è possibile associare musica e immagini attraverso apposite mappature (mappings), è anche possibile connettere reti (networks) di frammenti musicali e di immagini descrivendo progressivamente le modifiche apportate alle forme musicali e visuali. In questo articolo si intende proporre un nuovo approccio alla scrittura musicale secondo questi principi, ovvero componendo musica a partire da una rete di immagini in grado di “sonorizz…
Personifikacja a cud w polskiej teorii epopei lat porozbiorowych
2023
In Romanticism, the employment of abstract concepts within an epic ‘miracle machine’ was arranged by means of personification. This was the case until Antoni Malczewski, a Polish Romantic poet, introduced free indirect speech which facilitated linking anthropomorphised abstractions with their ‘genetic subjects,’ i.e. experiencing characters. The ‘miracle machine,’ by definition, was intended to be a response to a changeable vision of the world determined by history. Yet, what can be observed in poems of the late eighteen and early nineteenth century is, though with varying intensity, the presence of mythological characters along with Christian supernatural creatures, natural phenomena as we…