Sounds of simulations: data listening space
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Sounds of simulations: data listening space
Vogt, Katharina and Pirrò, David and Rumori, Martin and Höldrich, Robert
Proceedings of the 38th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2012
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Simulations, as widely used in science, need to be perceptualized. Data from computational physics’ simulations provide an interesting application case for sonification, which was studied in the research project QCD-audio. Within the project, the data listening space was set up as an interactive installation in Nov. 2009 in Graz, Austria. It allowed non-experts to immerge into the sonification of lattice quantum electrodynamics’ data as a virtual auditory scene. Movement and position of one listener at a time were tracked and used in the sonification, establishing a tight connection between virtual and real space. The installation was evaluated in a small test setting following a grounded theory approach.